==Report on the J wiki meeting of May 5, 2022==

Present: Art Anger, Raul Miller, Bob Therriault

1)First topic for discussion was the J playground and the group had made some 
suggestions about making a landing page for them 
https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Playground . Also we wondered if some of the 
issues with lab instructions might be solved by having a lab verb that uses a 
different message that matches the J playground interface rather than jQt, 
possibly using a flag to indicate that J is running in the Playground. 

2)And then we talked about the way that the process had gone with the update on 
the images this week and it seemed that there was not really an interest in 
working together as a group as much as it was about having tasks accomplished. 
Perhaps, the plan will be to work as a group of projects that are supportive of 
one another but are over seen by an individual or perhaps a group of 
individuals. The best example of this so far has been the J playground which 
has made its advances in this way. Similar projects may be done at different 
stages of the transition. Art's Array Manipulation pages 
https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Array_Manipulation and the general navigation 
improvements to be made with the prototype landing page might be future 
projects that fit this approach. 

3)Further discussion on the process for the server transfer, whether there is a 
way to transfer pages across between servers or whether there is work to be 
done on both servers to keep them up to date.

4)A potential new participant in the wiki group is Raghu Ranganathan who 
developed the k wiki https://k.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page and worked on the 
BQN interface. We are looking forward to working with him and overcoming the 
challenge of time zones between North America and India.

5)Navigation continues to be an area of focus for wiki improvement because of 
so much information scattered in so many places. Raul suggested that categories 
would address some of this and to focus on the pain point that newcomers 
express. 

6)Finally we talked to Art about the Array Manipulation pages which he sees as 
a useful page for anyone doing something that they have not done before, 
whether beginner or more experienced. Bob showed him the structure of Oleg's 
phrase page https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Phrases that might be useful as a 
bit of a guide to the approach that may be taken. Art was wondering about a 
method of collapsing his code segments so that the page has a bit more of a 
compressed look and Raul was able to get that working in a very satisfactory 
way. This may be very useful going forward because it allows information to be 
expanded quickly without leaving the page. Art also was looking for ways to 
highlight text without using headings which trigger table of contents creation. 
Raul suggested using style attributes with either a div element or a span 
element to control the look of the text without using the heading format. The 
meeting wrapped up with Raul creating expanding links for Art's Array 
Manipulation page.

For access to previous meeting reports 
https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Wiki_Development

If you would like to participate in the development of the J wiki please 
contact us on the general forum and we will get you an invitation to the next J 
wiki meeting held on Thursdays at 11:00 (UTC)

Cheers, bob
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