Community Call/05

Invitation

The invitation, including the Zoom link, is here.

Agenda

• Goal today: best practices for working together, not actually solving the problems
• Communication channels and rationale
  • Communication on the wiki:
    • use {{reply_to|Podehaye}} to ping someone (alert when they log in, email if configured to receive emails)
    • use ~~~~ to sign, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signatures
• Who reads from the wiki?
  • once in a while:
    • Le Temps for their investigation
  • continuously:
    • popup, introduced by MediaWiki:Common.js
    • opt-in/opt-out gadgets, introduced via MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition
    • eventually augmented by user script (e.g. User:Podehaye/common.js)
• hence: need for an ontology
  • How do we structure Internet of Things (IoT) devices like Tesla Cars or Amazon Echo / Alexa?
  • Should we make on item by model? Group of model?
  • One item by services? But what is the services? Typically Amazon Echo devices are linked to Alexa services, but they may differ in data collection.
  • Can we do a type of data collection and inject it in all Tesla Cars Model?
  • How do we index data controllers? Etc?
  • Project:Ontology
• Overview of the wiki base technology.
  • I haven't really has it explained to me. I understand it loosely as wiki plus NoSQL triplestore Db but high level tech explanation would be good. Help:Wikibase technology
  • Namespaces (see advanced search)
• Help:Templates
  • Including importantly how to enable a new one
  • Template syntax (maybe that might need to be a separate call)
• Help:SPARQL
  • Querying .. whatever the equivalent of SQL is
  • How to generate visual query results (nodes, tables etc)
• Merging?
• Update queries/batch operations Help:Quick Statements
• Other cool/useful stuff you can do that I might not be aware of (edited).>

USEFUL TOOL: Descriptions: Show the description of items and properties when hovering them. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-Descriptions.js

• Fill the next agenda, for Community Call/06

Final video

• https://invidio.us/watch?v=D950_JoNDPI