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15 votes
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Trump says Daniel Coats, director of national intelligence, to step down
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Would Donald Trump be president if all Americans actually voted?
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Dissecting A Dweet: Ring Weave ~ a 140 byte javascript animation
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Advice for starting a Wiki project
I am considering starting a wiki project for an academic niche. I've already started prototyping using Gitit, I've written a bit easy pages to get a feel for the software and am planning to start...
I am considering starting a wiki project for an academic niche. I've already started prototyping using Gitit, I've written a bit easy pages to get a feel for the software and am planning to start working on the most important page that summarises the topic itself, which I believe will help guide me to which pages to create first.
Now, here I'm asking for general advice to a newcomer n00bie wiki admin like me: what to expect, what software, etc. Any advice welcome, but I'll list a few questions below:
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What wiki software? I am liking Gitit, it is nice and easy to set up, and comes with its own server which I run with a systemctl user unit in the background. I tried Oddmuse but couldn't get it to work with a simple server; Ikiwiki setup is too clumsy for my liking (it friggin put stuff on my
$HOME
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How to defend against spam? My plan is to keep it invite-only for as long as I can. IDK how to do that with Gitit yet.
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How to serve it securely and for cheap, once I decide to publish? It probably won't ever grow beyond a few dozens of megabytes in file size.
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How do you go about promoting a wiki?
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What peripheral services (issue tracker, mailing list, IRC/Discord/etc channels) go well with a wiki?
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What tools are available to ensure content quality (no plagiarism, enforce conventions, monitor changes, ...)?
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In Lebanon, Palestinians protest new employment restrictions
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A schoolteacher created Candy Land, which celebrates its 70th anniversary this year, for quarantined children in polio wards
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The runner who makes elaborate artwork with his feet and a map
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Democracy's Dilemma: Democracies rely on free exchange of ideas and information, but that can also be weaponized. How can democratic societies protect—and protect themselves from—this?
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Deep in the interior of British Columbia, a temperate rainforest that holds vast stores of carbon and is home to endangered caribou is being clear-cut as fast as the Amazon
10 votes -
European Speedrunner Assembly's Summer 2019 event is live!
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The man who’s going to save your neighborhood grocery store
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The just transition for coal workers can start now. Colorado is showing how
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Goodbye, Alan Moore: the king of comics bows out
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Many US prisons deny Muslim inmates halal food and proper prayer
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Twelve people shot at Brooklyn event
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What was the most fulfilling thing you did this month?
As a respite from all the bad news floating around the internet, let's have some wholesome discussion! Whether it's major and minor, what was the best or most fulfilling thing you did this month?
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Ohio just passed the worst energy bill of the 21st century
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The internet is rotting – let’s embrace it
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Heatwave threatens to accelerate ice melt in Greenland
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Over two hundred dead reindeer found on Norway's Arctic Svalbard
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has criticized Finland at a political event in Romania
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Subnautica: a world without guns | War Stories
8 votes -
Classic Doom games vanish, reappear on Xbox One with features missing
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Europe’s cities weren’t built for this kind of heat
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Fifteen days of fury: How Puerto Rico’s government collapsed
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The roots of Boeing’s 737 Max crisis: A regulator relaxes its oversight
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World’s largest nuclear fusion experiment clears milestone: ITER on track to begin operations in 2025
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Small problem: An encounter with refugees and the legal system of Greece
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Passenger in clown suit prompted mass cruise ship brawl, say witnesses
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Study finds positive bias in human languages
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There's an underground economy selling links from The New York Times, BBC, CNN, and other big news sites
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Digital authoritarianism and the threat to global democracy
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The Hidden Costs of Automated Thinking
5 votes -
Regal unveils bold unlimited movie ticket subscription plan
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The Man Who Built The Retweet: “We Handed A Loaded Weapon To 4-Year-Olds”
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Death Stranding | Heartman character spotlight trailer
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The origins of anime
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Cricket is the fastest growing sport in Sweden – Afghan refugees boost player numbers
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Overly Attached Girlfriend officially quits YouTube
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The millennial left is tired of waiting: How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff is working to build a generational movement
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Suggestion: a method for anonymous appreciation at the user level
One thing I really like about Tildes is the exemplary tags for comments. I love being able to let someone know I thought they had a great post, and I especially like that it's anonymous (though I...
One thing I really like about Tildes is the exemplary tags for comments. I love being able to let someone know I thought they had a great post, and I especially like that it's anonymous (though I realize some people like signing theirs, which I'm fine with too).
One thing I've found myself wanting to be able to do is give someone an exemplary label not for any one individual comment but for their contributions to the community at large. Maybe they're consistently thoughtful and insightful; maybe they go out of their way to post a lot of content for the community; maybe they're contributing code to the platform. It's less that any one particular thing they've done is amazing (though they often have individually great contributions too) and more that they've demonstrated a noteworthy and consistent pattern of good behavior.
As such, I think having something similar to the exemplary tag but applicable to a particular user could be very beneficial. I realize privately PMing a given user can currently accomplish this, but those are not anonymous, and I really like the idea of supporting others without revealing who I am, since I don't want my praise of others to influence their opinion of me. Furthermore, for the community at large, I think there's a benefit to praise of that type coming from "a voice in the crowd" rather than specific identifiable users, as it promotes community goodwill rather than person-to-person cheer.
Of course, with any type of anonymous feedback the thing to consider will be the potential for misuse. Someone could easily target/harass someone using an exemplary user feature by writing a nasty message, but this is also currently possible with exemplary tags and I don't know if it's been a problem? Nevertheless, it's something to consider. Perhaps a built-in report feature should something cross a line?
Furthermore, if such an appreciation mechanism were to be implemented, I would strongly advocate against any sort of publicly visual indicator on the site (like the blue stripe on comments). I think applying differences to that at the user level can create an appearance of user hierarchy, which is undesirable for a variety of reasons. Instead, I feel like it should be invisible to everyone except the recipient--basically an anonymous PM that they can't respond to, letting them know that they're awesome and why. I also think a similar "cooldown" system would benefit it. In fact, I'd probably advocate that it be longer than the one for comment tags.
Thoughts?
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How a new logo saved the city of Oslo $5 million a year
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Seeing yourself (BPD in the media)
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How societies turn cruel featuring Sargon of Akkad
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Proposed removal of kernel AX.25 support
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Monolithic concrete forms associated with brutalist architecture inspired the interiors of Axel Arigato's Copenhagen flagship store
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Sauna Day celebrates favourite Finnish pastime – over 1,000 public and private saunas throughout Finland open their doors
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What is your least favourite window manager or desktop environment and why?
Can be something current or ancient, and if you've really got an axe to grind feel free to drag in Windows or macOS or other proprietary operating systems. Personally after using i3 for around...
Can be something current or ancient, and if you've really got an axe to grind feel free to drag in Windows or macOS or other proprietary operating systems.
Personally after using i3 for around half a decade now (though I switched to sway about a year ago) everything else I try just seems to add friction.
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Pansexuality 101: Five key facts you need to know
17 votes