Wiki/Ontology

Ontology covers the structural patterns of the wiki, in the work of wp:ontology, reaching for the simplest way to structure the shared knowledge here, to help participants keep the wiki up to date, through ease of navigation and understanding, and consistency in organization.

This page discusses the fundamental structure of the wiki, in its current design, and hopefully receives updates as the structure is added on to, while retaining historical motivations at ready textual reference.

In metaphysics, ontology is the philosophical study of being. It investigates what types of entities exist, how they are grouped into categories, and how they are related to one another on the most fundamental level (and whether there even is a fundamental level).

The compound word ontology ('study of being') combines:

onto- (Greek: ὄν, on;[note 1] gen. ὄντος, ontos, 'being' or 'that which is') and

-logia (-λογία, 'logical discourse').

Elements of Structure

Namespaces (mw:Help...) of the wiki support keeping separate types of pages apart. MediaWiki software treats different pages differently, and parses wiki text to transform {{templates}} into text, and index [[Category:Wiki]] pages into categories. Other pages can be used as templates, from the (main)/Article namespace {{:Guilds}} can be included (with partial transclusion filters in its wikitext), as can {{:Category:Usage}}

---

---

Guilds are self-organized maintainer groups that maintain Resources and organize Events within Noisebridge with multiple maintainers collaborating to improve the group's resources, institutional knowledge and resiliency. There is no medieval theme to Noisebridge! This is an attempt to codify something essential that usually happens organically, in order to help new people to the community see that THEY ARE NOT LOST. THEY CAN BELONG. If you have a better name, make it real!

---

---

---

---

About Category usage

• To Categor-ize a page, include: [[Wiki/Ontology]]
• To link the page of a Category, include: [[:Wiki/Ontology]]
• To transclude a Category's content, include: {{:Wiki/Ontology}}; invoking it as a template

See also, help:formatting or help:editing, or Wiki/Learn.

---

---

(many other link-types at mw:Namespaces)

Structure: Current & Growing

WGs

Working Groups maintain aspects of the space, for the direct benefit of everyone and anyone, and not just for member, e.g. of guilds. They may exist in ongoing perpetuity or be formed to address a particular challenge.

Category:WG can help organize pages by merely tagging them with one of the WG sub-categories.

Guilds

Guilds are self-organized maintainer groups that maintain Resources and organize Events within Noisebridge with multiple maintainers collaborating to improve the group's resources, institutional knowledge and resiliency. There is no medieval theme to Noisebridge! This is an attempt to codify something essential that usually happens organically, in order to help new people to the community see that THEY ARE NOT LOST. THEY CAN BELONG. If you have a better name, make it real!

Structure: Proposals

IGs: Interest Groups

Interest groups would capture temporary (T IG?) (or permanent (P IG)) self-study meetings, for example Cryptopal_wg.

Use subpages for namespacing

This page demonstrates this. User pages frequently rely on subpages.

Including for templates

Template:header/guilds, could link to subpage guilds/header, use selective/partial transclusion.

Including for categories

I don't remember the names of the tags to mark wiki pages for later work and updates, outdated, historic, are there others? Let's namespace these under a common extremely short wiki page template name, with compatible categor(y/ies), to include a heirarchy that can be wandered, even in the tag/template/category structure.

Perhaps call it "WikiWork", {{ww/outdated}}, but {{ww}} is included there, and includes a link to its: category, template and those pages include non-partially-transcluded explanations of their purpose, of the child pages in the heirarchy, and sibling pages that a user might want to use instead.