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** writing interface (wiki): http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/index.php/The_radiated_book | ** writing interface (wiki): http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/index.php/The_radiated_book | ||
** reading interface (book): http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/index.php/File:Book.pdf | ** reading interface (book): http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/index.php/File:Book.pdf | ||
**further documentation: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PTrkUKUlT8 Public Library / 09 / Lecture Femke Snelting] talk | |||
* Media Design Graduation projects: | * Media Design Graduation projects: | ||
** writing interface (wiki): http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Category:Graduation_work | ** writing interface (wiki): http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Category:Graduation_work | ||
** reading interface (website): https://www.pzimediadesign.nl/ | ** reading interface (website): https://www.pzimediadesign.nl/ | ||
** Help page for Graduation Work wiki pages: http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Help:Graduation_work | ** Help page for Graduation Work wiki pages: http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Help:Graduation_work | ||
=== investigate === | === investigate === |
Revision as of 13:47, 18 September 2017
Wikis as publishing platforms
Pad: https://pad.pzimediadesign.nl/p/specialissue-2017-09-18
Wikis
introduction
- Wikipedia page on wiki
- Ward Cunningham video on wikis
- Pzi wiki page on Wiki software
Wikis as writing interface with separate reading interfaces
Projects
- Toneelstof
- writing interface (wiki): http://toneelstof.be/w/Main_Page
- reading interface (website): http://toneelstof.be/
- Mondoteque
- writing interface (wiki): http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/index.php/The_radiated_book
- reading interface (book): http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/index.php/File:Book.pdf
- further documentation: Public Library / 09 / Lecture Femke Snelting talk
- Media Design Graduation projects:
- writing interface (wiki): http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Category:Graduation_work
- reading interface (website): https://www.pzimediadesign.nl/
- Help page for Graduation Work wiki pages: http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Help:Graduation_work
investigate
- What does the reading interface reveal that the writing interface hides? And/or vise-versa.
- What wiki elements structure the reading interface?
- What alternative reading interface would you create for the project?
wiki elements
For a more extensive list see Wiki
Users
To edit a wiki you need most wikis to register as user.
Different user's groups have different privileges:
- user: can edit and create pages
- administrators: can delete pages, put other users into a different group
- bot
Wiki Markup language
Wiki Markup: structured text, simplified version of HTML, easily converted to HTML.
Pages
Pages Creation
Pages can be created by:
- creating an empty page link, clicking it, and start editing. The following [[my empty page]] will translate to my empty page
- adding the page name to URL bar, you'll be directly to the empty page, and start editing http://publicationstation.wdka.hro.nl/wiki/index.php/my empty page
- Red link = previously non-existing page.
- Blue link = existing page.
Talk Pages
Every Page has its respective Discussion or Talk page.
Talk pages are the site of discussion and conflicts that go on to the making of an article.
An example: Talk page on Invisible Pink Unicorn Wikipedia article
User Pages
[http://beyond-social.org/prototypes/author-maps/wiki-author-articles.html Beyond Social Users & Articles Map]. A SVG map of the Users and the articles each has edited in the Beyond Social wiki. It uses:
Files and Images
To include non-text media (images,pdfs,audio-video) on the wiki, a File page needs to be created as a place-holder for the file
- [[File:myimage.png]]
- the page must be saved
- click on the red link, of the file you want to upload
- Follow the instruction to upload your file
Pages' Revision History
The history of versions or revisions of a page is stored.
They can be accessible via "View History"
Each revision shows its author, time, action, and at times summary.
Revisions can be compared, edited and undone.
Artworks exploring Wikipedia's Revision History
The Iraq War: A History of Wikipedia Changelogs, James Bridle, collects the history of changes from the Wikipedia's article on The Iraq War between 2004 and 2009.
Epicpedia Annemieke van der Hoek transforms Wikipedia's revision history into a theater script.
Cramer, Florian. 2011. “A Brechtian Media Design: Annemieke van Der Hoek’s Epicpedia.” In Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader, 221–26. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures. http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/critical-point-of-view-a-wikipedia-reader/
2015 Baltimore protests, according to The Wikipedians, Andre Castro, visits the revision history of the Wikipedia page on the 2015 Baltimore protests for two days, from the first post in April 27 untill April 28 2015.
Structuring a wiki
What situations require an overall structure, more elaborate than its "flat" systems of pages?
Subpages: simple hierarchy
Subpages are useful for organizing information hierarchically, as parent/child/grandchild
A subpage of a given main page, is create by adding a slash, followed by the sub-page's name, to the main page name.
[[main page/subpage/sub-subpage]]
Example: this very page Courses/Wikis-Publishing Platforms is a sub page from the Courses page
{{Special:PrefixIndex/{{FULLPAGENAME}}/}} can be placed on a parent page to display all its children.
Namespaces: separate spaces
Namespaces are container for specific content.
- Example: the Namespace Wrecks in this wiki was created for material dedicate to Wrecks project and not a part of the Publication Station Wrecks:Main_Page and FIN:Main_Page
- Note: Namespaces need to be created in the configurations of the wiki.
Categories: Tags, Hierarchies, Spaces, States
Categories are (the only) ways to tag content.
[[Category:courses]] a page to the courses category
Problems: No limit to the categories that can be added to a page.
Sematic Mediawiki
Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) to MediaWiki
While traditional wikis contain only text which computers can neither understand nor evaluate, SMW adds semantic annotations that allow a wiki to function as a collaborative database.
Properties and types (datatypes) are the basic way of entering semantic data in Semantic MediaWiki. Properties can be viewed as «categories for values in wiki pages». They are used by a simple mark-up, similar to the syntax of links in MediaWiki:
Property name::property value
API
An API or application programming interface is an interface that allows interaction via other software. It allows things such as apps to be build on top of existing services, where the apps use the API to interact with the service.
Web APIs
Mediawiki API is a Web API.
Essentially it means that the API is accessed thought HTTP requests and responds using JSON or XML object.
Note: might be helpful to install a JSON add on to your browser, to pretty-prints JSON content.
Mediawiki API
Mediawiki API allows many and very intricate request for information (and editing) from Mediawiki installations.
A few examples will follow, you can request using your web browser. Including a Pretty-prints JSON extension on your browser, as it will help you read the API's responses.
Example: Page basic info
https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mw-mediadesign/api.php?format=json&action=query&titles=Main_Page&prop=info PZI MD wiki Main Page
Example: Page content
https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mw-mediadesign/api.php?format=json&action=query&titles=Wiki_publishing&prop=revisions&rvprop=content This page Page
action=raw
action=raw
Action raw is another simple way of obtaining just the page content as Wiki markup.
https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mw-mediadesign/index.php?title=Wiki_publishing&action=raw
action=render
action=render
Action render is another simple way of obtaining just the page content as HTML markup.
https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mw-mediadesign/index.php?title=Wiki_publishing&action=render
Decomposing an API request
https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mw-mediadesign/api.php? format=json & action=query & titles=Wiki_publishing & prop=revisions & rvprop=content
https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mw-mediadesign/api.php?
- endpoint - the home page of the MediaWiki web service. It can be found by going to the Version:Special page of a wiki a searching for the API entry pointformat=json
- the format of the output. Can either be JSON of XML, although XML is being phased outaction=query
- what action to you want to performed. query is the most used, but there many more available options, such as editing and deleting pages.
Then comes the action specific parameters
titles=Wiki_publishing
- the page queriedprop=revisions
- what properties you want from of a page: revision. As no particular revision is specified the latest will be returnedrvprop=content
- what specific properties you want from the page revision in question: content. You could also ask for theuser
who created the last revision, or thecomment
left by the user. These properties can be combined in a single request.rvprop=content|user|comment
Example: Page revisions
Example: Images in a page
https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mw-mediadesign/api.php?format=json&action=query&titles=Main_Page&prop=images
Example: categories a page belongs to
Examples: Contributors to a page
Example: Users of a wiki
https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mw-mediadesign/api.php?format=json&action=query&list=allusers&aulimit=100
limit of 100 users