Wiki/Report of Meeting 2023-02-16

Report of Meeting 2023-02-16

Present: Art Anger, Devon McCormick, Raul Miller, and Bob Therriault

1. We started off with a discussion of the categorization that Bob has done. Raul pointed out that in cases such as NYCJUG pages there are many sub categories that could be applied in addition to the User Groups category. Bob let that it will often be the case in omnibus pages where there are multiple categories and this will allow users to access the subtopics of these pages. Bob showed the cut and paste page he is using make the addition of categories to a page much simpler. https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Wiki/Category_Tree_Cut_and_Paste
2. Bob demonstrated the process of adding categories to pages. Raul mentioned that CGI has two meanings Computer Generated Images and Common Gateway Interface. Bob said that the image based interpretation would probably shown in Gallery. Bob placed the Scripts/Stereo Plot page https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Scripts/Stereo_Plot into the Gallery in the prototype wiki, unintentionally showing the confusion with having two servers. Devon pointed out that, once attached, the category did not show up on the page and Bob said this was to keep the category space cleaner by keeping the category tree categories hidden. Other categories that are not part of the category tree will not be picked up by the category tree. This allows users to create category names that will be useful for searches but will not be affected by or affect the category tree categories.
3. Raul suggested that category tree categories could be differentiated by a unicode character. Bob had explored that, but found it distracting and at this point new categories in the category tree would need to be built to replace the existing categories.
4. The plan going forward is to do the 'icon style' pages to the top two levels of the tree https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Category:Newcomers_N and then do text and link style pages for lower levels that will be easier to change, but still very functional. https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Category:Forums_and_Community_N.2
5. Art suggested that the 'Welcome to J?' on the video should have an exclamation mark instead of a question mark. That change was quickly made.
6. Discussion of whether a second server is necessary. Raul said that it is nice to have a sandbox to experiment with but there was no specific need at this time. Bob said he would talk to Chris about it and see what he thought. Bob mentioned that it was possible to create a zipped version of the whole wiki using this page. https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Help/Offline
7. Devon mentioned the wiki at the NYCJUG meeting, but there was not a great deal of enthusiasm to dive in and do work. This is not a surprise as building the community will take some focussed work in addition to the content curation.

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