PersonalScienceWiki talk:Open Issues
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CK wiki: User:Gedankenstuecke found this wiki on Cluster Headaches. It is a community/patient-led project. Maybe we can learn something from their wiki? - Katoss (talk) 15:19, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
Design for diversity: Diversity in open source and wiki communities is often an issue. How much should we have an eye on diversity at this stage? How can we implement this? - Katoss (talk) 16:45, 17 November 2021 (UTC) (Source)
Bot use?
Wikipedia uses lots of bots to sign comments, revert vandalism, or even to write articles. Should be consider using bots? Which bots could be useful for us? - Katoss (talk) 16:45, 17 November 2021 (UTC) (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 this article and WP's five pillars). - Katoss (talk) 16:45, 17 November 2021 (UTC) (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? - Katoss (talk) 16:45, 17 November 2021 (UTC) (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). 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? 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") - Katoss (talk) 11:19, 18 November 2021 (UTC) (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 (PersonalScienceWiki). I think if possible we should enable this for these spaces too or is there a reason to not do so? - Gedankenstuecke (talk) 14:19, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
- I just checked the VisualEditor manual and 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! - Gedankenstuecke (talk) 15:36, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
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 t-test page linked back. Do we think this might be useful and doable? - Gedankenstuecke (talk) 10:20, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
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.) - Madprime (talk) 18:33, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
Notifications
I noticed that when Katoss tagged me on PersonalScienceWiki:Ask_questions, I did not receive a "notification" - a feature I'm familiar with in Wikipedia. It looks like "Notifications" is a standard component in Mediawiki.
I think we'd like to have this in our wiki? I think it may be included as a standard component already, but ... not on? It's unclear to me how to "activate" it. (Or is it active but somehow not working for me?) - Madprime (talk) 19:21, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
- Agree, I think I had put a wish for notifications somewhere earlier too. The Notifications article on the MediaWiki docs was a bit confusing, but I think I found it out: It seems that the Echo extension is still required to enable the notifications, even if they've rebranded the whole thing. Echo doesn't seem to be installed by default, so that would be something to look into. - Gedankenstuecke (talk) 08:37, 10 March 2022 (UTC)