Editing PersonalScienceWiki talk:Open Issues

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== Resources == 

'''CK wiki:''' [[User:Gedankenstuecke]] found this [https://ck-wissen.de/ckwiki/index.php?title=Hauptseite wiki on Cluster Headaches]. It is a community/patient-led project. Maybe we can learn something from their wiki? - [[User:Katoss|Katoss]] ([[User talk:Katoss|talk]]) 15:19, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

'''Design for diversity:''' Diversity in [https://papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1866/24878/Chapter%2012_Free%20and%20Open%20Source%20Software.pdf?sequence=1 open source] and [https://lucris.lub.lu.se/ws/portalfiles/portal/94288236/Chapter_13_Wikipedia_and_Wikis.pdf wiki] communities is often an issue. How much should we have an eye on diversity at this stage? How can we implement this? - [[User:Katoss|Katoss]] ([[User talk:Katoss|talk]]) 16:45, 17 November 2021 (UTC) ([https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d13hyfitTzJwAF0yhgPn1XQKeHmUUhlEAUwOq0WyHGo/edit Source])

==Bot use?==
Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots uses lots of bots] to sign comments, revert vandalism, or even to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lsjbot write articles]. Should be consider using bots? Which bots could be useful for us? - [[User:Katoss|Katoss]] ([[User talk:Katoss|talk]]) 16:45, 17 November 2021 (UTC) ([https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d13hyfitTzJwAF0yhgPn1XQKeHmUUhlEAUwOq0WyHGo/edit Source])

==Cornerstones of Wikipedia vs Personal Science Wiki==
How is this wiki different from Wikipedia, e.g. with regards to WP's cornerstones? (see p.21f of [https://lucris.lub.lu.se/ws/portalfiles/portal/94288236/Chapter_13_Wikipedia_and_Wikis.pdf this article] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars WP's five pillars]). - [[User:Katoss|Katoss]] ([[User talk:Katoss|talk]]) 16:45, 17 November 2021 (UTC) ([https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d13hyfitTzJwAF0yhgPn1XQKeHmUUhlEAUwOq0WyHGo/edit Source])
:  Wikipedia vs Personal Science Wiki : notability https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iconography_of_correlations lots of writings on how to and advice deleted - [[User:DG]]

==How to best document tacit/procedural knowledge?==
How to use this wiki best to help self researchers learn from the experience of others? - [[User:Katoss|Katoss]] ([[User talk:Katoss|talk]]) 16:45, 17 November 2021 (UTC) ([https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d13hyfitTzJwAF0yhgPn1XQKeHmUUhlEAUwOq0WyHGo/edit Source])
: What I'm finding hard (but very interesting at the same time) is for example to "extract" enough concrete details about [[Seth Roberts]] great diversity and number of self-experimentation just by reading one paper: Roberts, S. (2004). [https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2xc2h866 Self-experimentation as a source of new ideas: Ten examples about sleep, mood, health, and weight]. ''Behavioral and brain sciences'', 27(2), 227-262. But on the one hand I wonder if this type of sources (or blogs, videos, etc) are precisely in need of closer look and more hands to summarise the basics and reflect them properly as useful knowledge (just starting points) for further exploration by anyone interested in the same questions or methods, etc. Maybe some sort of reading club session (of this concrete source or similar) could be also useful to collaboratively extract and reflect afterwards the essential learning, tools, hacks, etc. directly on the wiki? [[User:Esenabre|Esenabre]] ([[User talk:Esenabre|talk]]) 16:55, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

== Should we have a category like "processes"/"how to's"? ==
A request that often appears is to explain "how to" do things, like calibrating blood glucose trackers, or exporting data from fitbit. This could be part of "topics" or "projects" at the moment, but might become a dedicated (sub)category at some point. Publishing negative results should also be encouraged ("how not to"/"things that didn't work") - [[User:Katoss|Katoss]] ([[User talk:Katoss|talk]]) 11:19, 18 November 2021 (UTC) ([https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p61Zp48JXYxc5tB2q7WR51ZQ8_TS0s8-LDtvVSC88QA/edit#heading=h.revlivpbh366 Source])

== Visual Editor not everywhere ==

The visual editor seems to only be enabled for some name spaces. E.g. it's absent on the talk pages and in name spaces such as this one (<code>PersonalScienceWiki</code>). I think if possible we should enable this for these spaces too or is there a reason to not do so? - [[User:Gedankenstuecke|Gedankenstuecke]] ([[User talk:Gedankenstuecke|talk]]) 14:19, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

: I just checked the VisualEditor manual and [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VisualEditor#Changing_active_namespaces|this seems to be the instruction on how to set it up] for additional namespaces. I think having it for the Help, Talk & PersonalScienceWiki would be great! - [[User:Gedankenstuecke|Gedankenstuecke]] ([[User talk:Gedankenstuecke|talk]]) 15:36, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

== Topics related to topics ==
We got rid of circular, semantic linking as it was hard to understand the dependencies of how information shows up. I feel for topics it could still be relevant and useful to have 'topics related to this topic'. Where I noticed this was when making the [[Statistical testing]] page, where I'd have loved to have the [[Is it chance? Use a T-Test to identify how likely an intervention worked|t-test page]] linked back. Do we think this might be useful and doable? - [[User:Gedankenstuecke|Gedankenstuecke]] ([[User talk:Gedankenstuecke|talk]]) 10:20, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
: Disambiguation page with theses two and [[finding]] too and linking from these pages back up to the disambiguation.

== Organization of this talk page ==

"Talk" pages have an "Add topic" tab for adding new topics for discussion and I'm using it to add this topic!). This page has content that was formerly in a non-talk page... I think it should probably be re-organized to be consistent with standard "Talk page" headings. (I'm likely to do this myself after posting this new topic.) - [[User:Madprime|Madprime]] ([[User talk:Madprime|talk]]) 18:33, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

:Okay, that's done now with this edit! - [[User:Madprime|Madprime]] ([[User talk:Madprime|talk]]) 18:37, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

== Network visualizations ==

Hi. What were the plans on graphical networks to illustrate the wiki linkings? Is it really even necessary? - [[User:DG|DG]] ([[User talk:DG|talk]]) 20 March 2022

: This could be interesting to identify clusters that could become new sub-topics. I think, right now, we might not have enough pages to create a lot of insight (maybe I'm wrong). But if someone wants to go ahead and try this, please go ahead (for context, linking here the [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p61Zp48JXYxc5tB2q7WR51ZQ8_TS0s8-LDtvVSC88QA/edit#heading=h.vb8wvcdaoell notes of the self research chat on Feb 24, 2022] in which we talked about this) - [[User:Katoss|Katoss]] ([[User talk:Katoss|talk]]) 14:07, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

== Improve getting started ==

[[User:DG|DG]] suggested adding the [[Special:MostLinkedPages|Most Linked Pages]] to the "Getting started" front page section as those are pages that might be highly relevant for newcomers. I think that might be a good idea, how do others feel about it? - [[User:Gedankenstuecke|Gedankenstuecke]] ([[User talk:Gedankenstuecke|talk]]) 10:06, 17 July 2022 (UTC)

== night vision like gwern.net ==

Gwern's site has nifty "night mode" that makes text white on black. Can Wikimedia wiki do that?