Civ-Talk . . . November 14, 2021, at 03:53 PM by achmizs: %width=500px% Attach:Finder_window_icons_LotR_icon_view_zoomed_window.jpg | '''Figure 9.''' Finder window in icon view, zoomed to cover most of desktop. Folder containing high-resolution icons.
WikiFederation . . . October 30, 2018, at 07:23 PM by achmizs: :[[http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Sisterly | Sisterly]] recipe (add-on) on PmWiki: Linking to, and transcluding, other wikis in a WikiFarm (i.e. multiple wikis hosted on the save server and using the same installation of the pmwiki software)
DesignSketches . . . February 01, 2018, at 03:42 PM by achmizs: %thumb% Attach:2017-09-02-forum-thread-artifact-concept-1.jpg
SaidAchmiz . . . February 01, 2018, at 03:31 PM by achmizs: !! Personal To-Do List Stuff I plan to / have to do, in no particular order: * Add stuff about WikiFolders, from IRC, to wiki * Lit survey of CSCW work, etc. (to do with wikis)
WikiFederation-Talk . . . February 01, 2018, at 03:29 PM by achmizs: (:include Site.TalkPageHeader basepage={*$FullName} :) !! Community-building: pitfalls, analysis, etc. :[[http://wiki.c2.com/?SisterSites | SisterSites]] (see the section on ''Why'') and [[http://wiki.c2.com/?WhyIsNowClosed | WhyIsNowClosed]] on WikiWikiWeb:An interesting mini-cased-study on the failures of community-building. (See also: [[http://web.archive.org/web/20060505025453/http://clublet.com:80/c/c/why?WhyWouldOneBother]]) :[[http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/CommunityMayNotScale | CommunityMayNotScale]] on MeatballWiki: A key quote:
ReplaceLimeSurvey . . . February 01, 2018, at 03:27 PM by achmizs: (:title Replace LimeSurvey:) Right now if you want to run self-hosted surveys on the web you have very few choices. The best choice, LimeSurvey, is a hot dumpster fire of horrific CSS, bad UX and bad defaults. In this page [[~Hypothesis]] and others sketch a proposal to write a replacement for this software which avoids its worst flaws and hopefully improves on its everything. (:htoc:) ! Design Inspirations !! Inspirations
Progress . . . February 01, 2018, at 03:26 PM by achmizs: (:title Progress:) ["‘Configuration control’ and ‘configuration management’ connected changes to specifications, designs, hardware, and operational and testing procedures within an overall system for scheduling. Engineers were required to give schedule and cost estimates with requests for any technical change, allowing managers to monitor what was happening and who was slipping. All changes had to be notified, approved, and then communicated widely. It allowed the engineers to coordinate subsystems. Before this, said one involved, ‘we didn’t have a record of how we made it successful. So we were having random success, the worst thing that can happen to you because you know you got it right but you can’t repeat it.’"] - Dominic Cummings, [[https://dominiccummings.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/201702-effective-action-2-systems-engineering-to-systems-politics.pdf | ‘Systems engineering’ and ‘systems management’ — ideas from the Apollo programme for a ‘systems politics’]] This page is meant to document what's been done and what needs done in the FortForecast project. In particular: * What outstanding tasks/subprojects/objectives there are to complete. * Who is working on them. * What it should should look when they're done, broadly, and when we can expect them to be complete.
Organization . . . February 01, 2018, at 03:25 PM by achmizs: The [[Civ. | Civilization]] platform is not meant to just host FortForecast. In principle it should be able to host many different kinds of organization. This page is about how the FortForecast-specific bits of software and policy should work. (:htoc:) ! Sign Up ! Open Question: Needs of FortForecast contributors? In [[http://climate-action.engin.umich.edu/figures/Rood_Library/Shah_open_source_governance_2006.pdf | Shah's study]] of open source contributors it is stated that almost all initial contribution arises from need. This raises a handful of important questions:
FortForecast-Talk . . . February 01, 2018, at 03:20 PM by achmizs: (:include Site.TalkPageHeader basepage={*$FullName} :) (Putting some commentary here for lack of a better place. To be moved in the future as necessary. —[[~SaidAchmiz | SA]]) !! License I think (as per [[http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/SeedPosting | this]]) we had better consider the license/copyright question w.r.t. content on FortForecast. A platform that solicits contributions should be very clear about this matter. —[[~Said Achmiz]] August 30, 2017, at 03:37 PM
GroupHeader . . . February 01, 2018, at 03:19 PM by achmizs: (:include Site.DefaultGroupHeader:)
Mission-Talk . . . February 01, 2018, at 02:24 PM by achmizs: (:include Site.TalkPageHeader basepage={*$FullName} :) !! A relevant chat log [@<namespace> Congratulations. <namespace> You have uncovered an assumption. <namespace> Before I answer your question, it would probably be best to discuss the assumption. <namespace> One of the important things to me is that the organization primarily functions over the Internet. <namespace> I would like to help develop methods to let you take certain kinds of institution as far into the online realm as you can. <namespace> So that you can draw geographically disparate members together to do things.
Mission . . . February 01, 2018, at 02:23 PM by achmizs: %define=mission-statement-full font-size=1.2em% %define=mission-statement-part font-size=1.1em% FortForecast is not LessWrong. (It will pull most or all of its initial membership from the Less Wrong-affiliated community, but at most it could be termed a spiritual successor.) A ''major flaw'' in LessWrong-sphere projects is the ''inability to define a mission'' and then ''measure progress'' towards that mission. '''Here we define and examine the FortForecast mission, and compare/contrast it with the LessWrong mission.''' (:htoc:) !! Mission statement
Resources . . . February 01, 2018, at 02:19 PM by achmizs: This page is for collecting articles, blog posts, videos, links and other things which are interesting reading in relation to FortForecast. (:htoc:) !! Books :[[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23995360-superforecasting | Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction]] (Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner): :[[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11468377-thinking-fast-and-slow | Thinking, Fast and Slow]] (Daniel Kahneman):
Tracker-Talk . . . February 01, 2018, at 02:18 PM by achmizs: (:include Site.TalkPageHeader basepage={*$FullName} :) Relevant IRC conversation: [@ namespace: I just get this sense of "I don't touch the stuff" as an attitude when it comes to web 'things' for the average "effective person". Now note. namespace: When you hear this you might go "dude wtf are you talking about I know plenty of effective people..." namespace: Stop, selection bias. namespace: Techie effective people will totally use this stuff, because they know how to stop it from eating them. The average person is both not terribly skilled (a separate problem), and they've been trained that web forums are where weird nerds go to waste time. namespace: Personal example.
Tracker . . . February 01, 2018, at 02:17 PM by achmizs: (:summary: The tracker is a program that is meant to save the user time by automating away unnecessary effort asked of participants on traditional forums. This is done by recording preferences of things the user would like to see, and proactively alerting them to their presence. Unlike most recommendation/fetcher systems in this vein the tracker allows the user to access its control panel. Further, the tracker may play a role in helping users maintain healthy use of time in relation to Civilization by allowing users to figure out how much time they would like to spend on various activities and helping to make those happen. :) {$:summary} (:htoc:) ! Rationale The original idea for the tracker came when [[~Hypothesis]] realized that effective people avoid web forums. This is largely because they have a reputation for being a way to waste your time. A reputation well earned, given that the average web forum has a similar mission to giants like Facebook, grow and engage. Civilization would like to shake off this reputation by taking users time seriously. This means keeping track of any time users have to refresh repeatedly, wait on load times, find themselves fighting addiction, and other "time suck" behavior and actively fighting it rather than encouraging it like most designs do.
ThreadTypeAnalysis . . . February 01, 2018, at 02:16 PM by achmizs: ''(see also the [[Thread Survey]])'' '+'''Question:''' What sorts of [[Civ.Civ | artifacts]] could results from various kinds of forum threads?+' (:table border=0 class='threadlist' :) (:headnr:) Thread purpose (:head:) Representative or notable examples (:head:) Possible resulting artifacts (:head:) Notes (:cellnr:) collection
ThreadSurvey-Talk . . . February 01, 2018, at 02:15 PM by achmizs: Is [[http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2m612?Guide-to-the-Class-Guides#1 | guide]] another thread type, or is a guide one of the existing thread types? (See the linked thread for many examples, including itself.) —[[~Said Achmiz]] September 04, 2017, at 12:39 PM
ThreadSurvey . . . February 01, 2018, at 02:09 PM by achmizs: ''(see also the [[Thread Type Analysis]])'' (:table border=0 class='threadlist' :) (:headnr:) Purpose (:head:) Title (:head:) URL (:head:) Note (:head:) Posts (:cellnr:) shitposting (:cell:) PPC - Post Party Countdown
MagicFuckingPointSystem-Talk . . . February 01, 2018, at 02:03 PM by achmizs: (:include Site.TalkPageHeader basepage={*$FullName} :) [@ <namespace> Obormot: So recapping what we've been discussing so far. <namespace> quanticle: I'm not entirely sure how to introduce this, but part of the mission of FortForecast is to figure out how to actually get people to do things in some kind of coordinated way. <namespace> And Obormot happens to have had experience in a high effectiveness group that operates entirely online. <namespace> A WoW guild. <quanticle> Well, I guess WoW guilds are pretty effective? I don't know, I've never played World of Warcraft. <Obormot> I mean, some are. <namespace> One of the best WoW guilds, to my understanding.
MagicFuckingPointSystem . . . February 01, 2018, at 02:03 PM by achmizs: (:summary: One of the core goals of Civilization is to support better indexing than current forums do. [[http://idlewords.com/talks/fan_is_a_tool_using_animal.htm | Maciej]] talks about how fandom uses complex tagging schemes combined with the wisdom of the crowd to determine the appropriate keywords for an item. Our problem is that in all likelihood Civilization, at least as it's meant to be used by FortForecast, will only host between 300 and 3000 people on an instance if it's ''successful''. That means we have a lot less data to rely on wisdom of crowds for, and thus have to put more effort into active indexing. You have to have features to support indexing, and make sure people somehow go through the trouble of indexing work to make it accessible. I remember someone remarking that it's incredible to think there are furry porn sites whose nitpicky zealous indexing is better crafted than the systems we use for the most important knowledge in our society. One of the major things that is meant to set FortForecast apart is a healthy respect for the task of building an academic library rather than a holy book or canon. :)
Indexing . . . February 01, 2018, at 02:01 PM by achmizs: (:summary: One of the core goals of Civilization is to support better indexing than current forums do. [[http://idlewords.com/talks/fan_is_a_tool_using_animal.htm | Maciej]] talks about how fandom uses complex tagging schemes combined with the wisdom of the crowd to determine the appropriate keywords for an item. Our problem is that in all likelihood Civilization, at least as it's meant to be used by FortForecast, will only host between 300 and 3000 people on an instance if it's ''successful''. That means we have a lot less data to rely on wisdom of crowds for, and thus have to put more effort into active indexing. You have to have features to support indexing, and make sure people somehow go through the trouble of indexing work to make it accessible. I remember someone remarking that it's incredible to think there are furry porn sites whose nitpicky zealous indexing is better crafted than the systems we use for the most important knowledge in our society. One of the major things that is meant to set FortForecast apart is a healthy respect for the task of building an academic library rather than a holy book or canon. :)
DesignInspirations-Talk . . . February 01, 2018, at 01:59 PM by achmizs: (:include Site.TalkPageHeader basepage={*$FullName} :)
Civ . . . February 01, 2018, at 01:53 PM by achmizs: (:title Civilization:) Civilization is a forum software meant to host a coordinating hub for the FortForecast project. (:htoc:) ! Rationale !! What is the project?
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