Great idea, Rufus, which I wholeheartedly support. The wiki is a perfect place to do this, as it is trivially easy to cross-link items of a glossary, and indeed note relationships between terms.
yes maybe. The key point i think would be to be clear on the subset and aim for a specific output e.g. a mini publication with a given minimum quality.
I also wonder about having a separate, easier to edit space just dedicated to this would make it easier both technically and cognitively – i.e. less material and easier to edit.
i.e. more than simply a subset on the wiki - it would be specifically curated.
Maybe we can start with a Category tag for it in the wiki. Or perhaps we start with a little separate project that can draw from and contribute back to the wiki.
To add: atm we have a page like Category:Concepts - Second Renaissance. And there is already quite a bit there. and the question that brings up is which of those categories are key (or would be on a v0.1)?
And what is the quality of them?
To follow up on both of these, one solution to a v0.1 would be to pick a starting point and expand out from there. So let’s pick e.g. Second Renaissance - Second Renaissance as a starting point. atm that’s pretty bare bones … and doesn’t link to much. (So maybe we start there …)
Finally, i think we want want something with some verve, some opionin, something even with wit or charm. Maybe a bit of Ambrose Bierce’s the devil’s dictionary (or maybe that is unnecessary here).
I’m planning to hold a “Liminal Lexicon” session inside Limicon in the next few weeks! I think we can pull together a bit of energy to make a push in this direction.
Yes the Limicon session is tomorrow at 9am Pacific. For anyone not inside Limicon, message me for the zoom link.
We’ll be gathering first (terms that confuse people, that people want good reference guides for) and then some defining work.
I do see a real value in the lexicon page, as a quick reference – a bit like a cheat sheet –to key people in to other places they can explore deeper. I’ve suggested on the page itself that we add a few words giving a hint at the meaning, to help people know if they want to follow it up. That’s the middle column, and I hope easy to edit now.
Is it possible to update the spreadsheet from the existing lexicon page, or the GitHub? I’d appreciate that, as it would be a pity to lose the direct links I spent some time putting in, to help people get directly to the details.
I can’t be certain what the safest workflow is, but my guess is that the GitHub version is the master, does that make sense? If so, maybe we can remove material from the spreadsheet that is already on GitHub, and use it as a place to suggest extra entries. That would seem to me to be a safer way to avoid accidental overwriting of good work.
Help wanted to suggest term and add definitions
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