#28

A process question.

I don’t yet know how to edit the wiki without making a mess of it. I want to learn but that will take time I don’t have at this moment.

What would be better under those circumstances, for me to put stuff into the wiki at the top of the thread and and hope someone else would make it fit nicely, or put the idea as a request in a post down here in the thread?

Thanks!

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#29

Put stuff at the bottom of the wiki for practice. That way if you blow something up or make something messy it’s not the first thing people see. :slight_smile:

You’ll figure it out quickly, it is essentially the same as editing a post. Good luck!

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#30

Thanks!

I’m realizing that my iPhone is a suboptimal interface for this kind of editing…

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#31

Perhaps these kinds of very helpful but non-technical topics (psychology, emotions, cognitive, spirituality, art as path, etc.) could have their own wiki(s)?

I’ve gotten a lot of inspiration, support and connection through posts of this kind, and would find it helpful to be able to find them from a single starting point…

I assume that it just needs someone to start building the page :+1:

Edit: it probably goes without saying that artistic folks tend to have certain emotional, psychological, cognitive or other vulnerabilities… and that there is the potential for some meaningful healing in connection with others in similar circumstances or in supporting others in divergent circumstances…

In other words a place and context for being compassionate, listening, insightful, and loving… There’s a lot of that going on here… We should celebrate it…

:pray:t2:

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#32

i hear what you’re saying— but it’s also easy to get caught up in the meta-classifying the entire forum.

i think it’d be good to first get the technical content to satisfying level. keep in mind that the original request for this project was due to what was seen as a need for centralization in an attempt to learn a particular tool. i want to make sure we first stay on track to fulfill that need.

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#33

All good here…

Thanks for the guidance!

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#34

Live-coding makes sense to me as a section within either Programming or Making Music areas. I could see a strong argument for either so maybe just put it in the area where you’re most comfortable.

Live-coding is a kind of music making so makes sense there.

Live-coding is using programming so makes sense there.

If you only have one or two links, it could go in the Music Tools & Technologies subsection. If you have three or more then I’d say make its own subsection.

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#35

Would someone be willing to add something to the Discourse entry that specifically describes how to edit the index?

Thanks!

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#36

Is there a way to pin the index to the top for an individual user, e.g., me?

I’d like for it to be at the top whenever I visit the forum but would not dream of imposing that on anyone else!

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#37

just hit this button & edit like any other post:

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#38

not the same result, but you can bookmark it (the blue icon next to the circled edit button, above, indicates that i’ve bookmarked it. just tap the icon), and it will be available from your bookmarks page:

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#39

Thanks, I got that but I don’t know how to format the text to follow the style conventions that are developing… it’s probably ridiculously easy but it would be helpful to have it documented somewhere…

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#40

oh, sorry! i’m not fully awake yet :crazy_face:. i gotta get rolling for the day, but if no one catches this later, i’ll add some stuff.

#41

@eblomquist First things I would suggest are to take the Discobot tutorials.

  1. Go to your messages.
  2. Start a new message and address it to @discobot
  3. In the subject and message of your message type:

@discobot start tutorial

  1. That will take you maybe 10 or 15 minutes. When you’re done with that then, in that same message thread you can type:

@discobot start advanced tutorial

By the end of that you’ll know a whole lot more about how to play with Discourse.

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#42

Thanks that is perfect!

#43

edited, b/c i meant to reply to @eblomquist:

also, weirdly, i don’t think the tutorials cover linking, and i totally missed the link button here (hence using html tags, haha :crazy_face:).

if you hit the link button:

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you get this, so you can display a title, instead of the URL:

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#44

Loving this, added a couple things.

Random question, does anyone know why the bullets in this section have more spacing, I couldn’t figure it out. It is causing me pain, hah:

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#45

Looks like it did this because there were a couple of newlines before the “edit this wiki” bullet. Should be fixed now.

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#46

Just wanted to express my gratitude for folks contributing to the index!

You all are rockstars :sunglasses:

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#47

just bouncing back to emphasize this.

i see the index as a kind of…extended onboarding in the realm of making electronic (& electronically augmented) music, which is pretty much the core of lines. not that i realized that when i stumbled onto the forum via a random google recommendation (i think it took me almost a week to figure out what the heck “a monome” was).

this index project is a perfect extension of what i’m seeing as one of the core philosophies of monome—namely, increasing accessibility in the interest of furthering innovation & (i might be making this part up, but i don’t think so) community-building/engagement.

i love all the peripheral topics (that’s how i got here), and i also think that indexing those—at least to the extent that’s happening here—would reduce the feelings of…emergence, serendipity, and discovery that contribute to the overall magic of this place.

there’s a fair bit of gamification/gameful design on discourse, and in (the best parts of) that spirit, i like the idea of allowing these peripheral gems to be rewards for further exploration of/engagement with this space.

i’m finding some of the most gonzo, weird, rewarding topics through browsing, and this experience wouldn’t be the same if it was even close to fully mapped.

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