Mission
Some ideas
Online community
I'm doing a lot of online community management work with https://www.HuckAI.com and I think pragmatically I can still organize patterns and concepts somewhere. Here's as good a place as any.
LifeInText
I think fundamentally I am still interested in the question of LifeInText, or more accurately LifeInCybertext or LifeInHypertext. With ArtificialIntelligence progressing and my own age showing, I have been thinking about the progression of the human spirit. We have id, ego, superego, social reality, and an emerging cyberego.
- Id. Our emotional and instinctual self, driven by basic urges and desires (pleasure principle).
- Ego. The story we tell ourselves, which mediates between the Id and reality (reality principle).
- Superego. Our internalized ideals and moral standards, which also include our imagination of what we think others expect from us (moral principle).
- Social reality. What is actually being said and done by others around us.
- Cyberego. The persona and identity shaped by our interactions with software, AI, and digital environments.
Wikipedia and the InternetArchive
The staff at Wikipedia seems freaked out about its future in the face of AI and the changing search algorithms cutting their traffic and donation stream down. I'd normally let this go if it was any other company, but Wikipedia is not a company. It's a project of humanity. Maybe it's worth leaning into that project again.
Timeline
I'd like to rebuild the site by the end of 2024. That's my goal. I just need to commit a week to it.
Technical
Migrate server
- Move the backend to DigitalOcean from Rackspace.
Rewrite the backend
- Start by switching to node.js
- I need a new vision. Wikis are passe. I like the idea of HuckAI.
Authentication
- Add logins
- Give up on KeptPages or fix it
Marketing
Reach out to alumni
I'll reach out to alumni to let them know this thing is alive.
Don't care?
I don't know if I care deeply if people come or not right now. I just need to write in public.
Archive
Daily ===
- Fix vandalism.
- Welcome newcomers and write "CategoryHomePage" on their namepages.
- Increase clarity.
- Beautify: improve formatting and add graphics (if possible)
- Hunt down DeadLinks, and if possible, repair them by finding archived versions of it.
2021 ===
- Back up and migrate the server and domains to DigitalOcean?
- Clean out whatever actions below remain to be resolved
- Rebuild MeatballWiki starting with a MinimumViableWiki
Long term ====
Any sets of pages that we felt needed rewriting prior to fishbowling, I erased in 2021. We can figure out what matters to us now. -- SunirShah
- Rework the PropertyDamage pages
- Is this the wannabe BlackBloc guy's set of pages? Or are these the spammed page?
- Complete MeatballWikiRecovery, and enter the WikiNow.