#mediawiki — Public Fediverse posts

My #MediaWiki medium heat take on #LuaModules is that we don't make them magic ✨️ enough because most modules are converted from wikitext.

With substitution, Lua allows us to transform any user input into any output we want! So more templates should just accept more types of inputs.

For instance, my https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Шаблон:Годы_жизни needs Wikidata item ID to work but it accepts 1) plain old page titles, 2) wikitext with links, 3) interwiki links, and 4) pasted URLs to Wikidata, and just transforms them.

My #MediaWiki medium heat take on #LuaModules is that we don't make them magic ✨️ enough because most modules are converted from wikitext.

With substitution, Lua allows us to transform any user input into any output we want! So more templates should just accept more types of inputs.

For instance, my https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Шаблон:Годы_жизни needs Wikidata item ID to work but it accepts 1) plain old page titles, 2) wikitext with links, 3) interwiki links, and 4) pasted URLs to Wikidata, and just transforms them.

My #MediaWiki medium heat take on #LuaModules is that we don't make them magic ✨️ enough because most modules are converted from wikitext.

With substitution, Lua allows us to transform any user input into any output we want! So more templates should just accept more types of inputs.

For instance, my https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Шаблон:Годы_жизни needs Wikidata item ID to work but it accepts 1) plain old page titles, 2) wikitext with links, 3) interwiki links, and 4) pasted URLs to Wikidata, and just transforms them.

My #MediaWiki medium heat take on #LuaModules is that we don't make them magic ✨️ enough because most modules are converted from wikitext.

With substitution, Lua allows us to transform any user input into any output we want! So more templates should just accept more types of inputs.

For instance, my https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Шаблон:Годы_жизни needs Wikidata item ID to work but it accepts 1) plain old page titles, 2) wikitext with links, 3) interwiki links, and 4) pasted URLs to Wikidata, and just transforms them.

My #MediaWiki medium heat take on #LuaModules is that we don't make them magic ✨️ enough because most modules are converted from wikitext.

With substitution, Lua allows us to transform any user input into any output we want! So more templates should just accept more types of inputs.

For instance, my https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Шаблон:Годы_жизни needs Wikidata item ID to work but it accepts 1) plain old page titles, 2) wikitext with links, 3) interwiki links, and 4) pasted URLs to Wikidata, and just transforms them.

Mein kleines Refactoring-Projekt der heimischen Infrastruktur zieht immer größere Kreise.

Wenn ich den fetten Server nachts abschalten will, brauche ich 24x7 Ersatz in klein. Dafür habe ich gestern eine APU 1D4 mit #Debian 13 bestückt.

Stellt sich raus, dass ich vor 10 Jahren einen #Datenlogger ebenfalls auf einer APU 1D4 installiert habe, der alle 5 Minuten 24x7 die Zählerstände des digitalen Stromzählers und vom #Wechselrichter in eine Datenbank protokolliert. Ach ja, langsam erinnere ich mich wieder.

Die Software dafür läuft im wesentlichen seit dieser Zeit ununterbrochen (ausser Stromausfällen) in meinem hinterletzen Subnetz. Zum Glück hatte ich damals in einem #MediaWiki dokumentiert, was ich damals verbrochen hatte.

$ grep PRETTY /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="CentOS Linux 7 (Core)"

Da muss ich dann jetzt wohl auch mal ran...

#EinmalMitProfis

Federating knowledge: exploring ways to bridge wikis and notes

Join the workshop at #39C3!

NEW DATE: day 4, TODAY at 13:40 @ Free Knowledge Habitat Workshop Area.

Most people and organisations have their very own way of acquiring, organising, archiving, sharing, and collaborating on knowledge repositories. A broad spectrum of opinions and approaches resulted in a diverse and rich ecosystem of knowledge management solutions. Nevertheless, this also implies scattered and disconnected knowledge sources. What would it mean to build bridges among wikis and federate knowledge?

This workshop is going to be heavily centred on a twofold discussion, exploring the challenge of federated knowledge starting from two questions.

• What does it mean to federate knowledge repositories?
• Instead of pursuing a silver-bullet solution to embrace all use-cases, what would it mean to foster and enable interoperability for different software?

These questions stem from years of questioning and wondering how to integrate my personal note-taking and collective, participatory knowledge management at work, in organisations, institutions, and informal collectives. Recently, I began actively researching this topic as I started playing with the MediaWiki API to cross-synchronise my local Markdown notes and the XPUB wiki, the public learning wiki of the Experimental Publishing master. I am puzzled by taking advantage of the potential of a specific software (in this case, MediaWiki) while fearing of being locked-in.

Some further, more specific, insights and questions:

• Local-first approaches and software (e.g. Reflection)
• Interesting experiments based on existing protocols, such as Ibis
• What do we take of semi-open and obscure yet very cool initiatives like Anytype
• The power and the limits of plain-text: how to enable collaboration on simple Markdown files and build on top of it, as Obsidian does

Cc: @modal @p2panda @obsidian @wikimediaDE @dweb

#knowledge #FreeKnowledge #wiki #MediaWiki #API #Obsidian #Anytype #Ibis #IbisWiki #Reflection #CCC #Federation #federatedKnowledge #docs #PKM #knowledgeManagement #personalKnowledgeManagement #collectiveKnowledgeManagement #DWeb #decentralization #ActivityPub

Hello #BlueSpice 5.1! 📣🥳 Look forward to automatic #translation functions and the revised #processmodeling, for example. More about the new features:
🔗https://bluespice.com/bluespice-5-0-has-arrived/

#mediawiki #knowledgemanagement #multilingualism #DeepL #processmanagement #BPMN #Blog #PDF #Export

New #blog post: Why I Love Markdown

https://rldane.space/why-i-love-markdown.html

1131 words

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @twizzay @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @solusspider @clayton @giantspacesquid

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

#100DaysToOffload #20

#rlDaneWriting #Technology #Markdown #CommonMark #Wiki #WikkaWiki #MediaWiki #TiddlyWiki #ADHD #Humor #ADHDHumor #HumoUr

How do I respond to a specific machine error message? How should certain equipment be cleaned? 🤔

Together with Fraunhofer IVV (ivv.fraunhofer.de) we show how wikis, chatbots and #semantics offer solutions to #staffshortages even for industries like #agriculture.

#BlueSpice #digitalization #multilingualism #HybridRAG #wiki #chatbot #mediawiki

Notice something new on the Rainverse Wiki home page?

That's right, we have a poll!

Inspired by polls on Super Mario Wiki, we will periodically ask you, the readers, assorted questions about the Rainverse! When the poll concludes, it will be replaced by another poll, and the results will be moved to the new Poll Archive page.

This new feature is thanks to @[email protected] and @[email protected] . Awhile back, @[email protected] started whining on Miraheze Discord and Rainverse Matrix that there were inadequate polling options available on Miraheze. In response to Beth's whining, Claire made a whole new MediaWiki extension, and Average Helper and Claire did the hard work to get it installed on Miraheze.

I'm also ready to preemptively announce plans for the Rain Character Tournament 3 and the My Impossible Soulmate Character Tournament 1. Each character tournament will ask you to vote for your favorite character in a series of matches, with winning characters advancing to the next round until only one remains.

Neither tournament will happen for awhile: The next Rain Character Tournament will likely begin several months after the release of Rain Volume 7, while the first MIS Character Tournament will not begin until after MIS Volume 1 is released. But we can announce that when these character tournaments do happen, you'll be able to vote straight from the wiki home page.

#Rain #MyImpossibleSoulmate #Rainverse #RainverseWiki #MediaWiki #Miraheze #RainCharacterTournament #RainCharacterTournament3 #MyImpossibleSoulmateCharacterTournament #MyImpossibleSoulmateCharacterTournament1 #Poll