Wiki/Report of Meeting 2022-12-15

Report of Meeting 2022-12-15

Present: Art Anger, Raul Miller, and Bob Therriault

1. Bob began by talking about the template that he has been developing to create navigation bars and wiki pages which should speed up the transition if he ever gets around to implementing it. He also mentioned the Julia programming language web page which uses icons heavily and could potentially flatten the hierarchy of the wiki pages if it were to be used. https://julialang.org/ This may lead to a future adjustment to how many layers the navigation has.
2. Art mentioned that some of the pages on the prototype wiki have duplicated search bars. This is a result of the addition that Raul was able to make to the MediaWiki Site notice functionality that allowed the search bar to be moved out of the content. Contrast these two pages to see the difference. https://code2.jsoftware.com/wiki/Main_Page/Community vs https://code2.jsoftware.com/wiki/Main_Page
3. Bob talked about there will be a developer tab that will be added along side the newcomer tab that would provide a boost to those who are interested in developing for J in the specific ways that may be of interest to developers. In both the cases of Developers and Newcomers the more specific navigation bar would be used and possibly have a link on the page that would return you to the Reference tab if that is how you came to the page.
4. Raul wondered about what the next steps are for things that he might be involved with with php or bot coding. Bob felt that bringing the J code search box to be able to work with categories (perhaps with a minimum of 10 pages using the category to reduce the number of categories in the search). Also, to make the wiki sign-up easier for newcomers. Other than that the ongoing work on the wiki will be more involved with community building and finding ways to increase community participation in building the wiki. Raul wondered if there would be security restrictions in changing the J search code since it involves php and javascript. Bob suggested that it might be brought in as an extension. Raul also wondered if gadgets might work as a different wiki tool. There might be opportunities to build on the navigation structure to trim the number of pages that would be searched. As an example, you might be able to eliminate archived pages from a search and make it much quicker.

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