==Report on the J wiki meeting of May 19, 2022==

Present: Art Anger, Devon McCormick, Bob Therriault

1) First discussion was about how the new prototype 
https://code2.jsoftware.com/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page could be used as an 
alternative to the current wiki 
https://code.jsoftware.com/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page ), by using links that 
would allow easy access from one wiki to the other. The idea is that users 
would test the new wiki while having an easy exit to the old wiki if the new  
wiki was not solving their problem. Devon wondered about whether there would be 
a way to generate messages automatically when the crossover link was hit at 
least providing information of what page they were on when they left. Devon 
pointed out that it would be good for people to be able to make the changes to 
the wiki if they see the problems. Bob added that having a button that would 
generate a report that they could fill out would be useful even if they did not 
know how to fix the problem. We could use this to provide guidance about when 
we should switch across. 

2) Old pages would not be lost but may exist outside the structure of the new 
wiki. This would allow old pages to remain accessible through search, but 
navigation to them might be difficult. Eventually, old pages may be deleted, 
which would make them only accessible to admins. 
#Devon's insight into global zoom meetings was that India time zone meetings 
work best for early morning North America, although when Japan, China and 
Australia are taken into account an evening North America might be better.

3) A discussion of using personal bookmarks as a way to create personal 
indexes. A button on the sidebar would paste the address of the current page to 
a Links page attached to the User page. The Users would be responsible for any 
curation, but it would still allow quick access to pages that the user found 
useful. Devon suggested that this might be useful if preference matching could 
be used, so that existing bookmarks may provide suggestions for more useful 
pages.  

4) Rosetta stone discussion. Devon pointed out that this was a discussion topic 
for the first NYCJUG meetup https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/NYCJUG/2005-01-11, 
so it is an ongoing issue. Bob mentioned Ian Clarke's APL2J page 
https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/APL2JPhraseBook. as a way to allow linking of 
different vocabularies across the different languages. Devon already has a 
Python version of this that might fit into that page. The Rosetta page itself 
would consist of links to different languages that might be familiar to the 
user. It was mentioned that Conor Hoekstra had found a table by Dan Hirschi 
that provided a cross reference across the array language, but that table has 
not been located.

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 23:00 (UTC)

Cheers, bob

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