Action

An Action records a human activity that produces or reproduces a meaningful process:

Make art ➨ Install exhibition ➨ hire pro photogs to document exhibition ➨ write 10000 words about what it "means" ➨ edit down to 500 words about what's imagined about what people want it to "mean" ➨ format images and text in Adobe Illu$strator, Cargo collective or Square Space to reflect industry standards ➨ Begin applications to grad school ➨ Refactor assets for grad program standards ➨ Upload to college admissions portal ➨ Twiddle thumbs

If we can loosely define "art work" as a process of materializing observations in collaboration with others, some of whom are dead, then we should map these efforts onto the representations they require.

Submit application ➨ Relax ➨ Share ➨ Forkback ➨ Reflect

Publishing from Federated Wiki takes a step further by closing the copy/edit loop.

fork ➨ refactor Workflow Template ➨ Graph outcomes ➨ Reflect on "apps" and "applications" ➨ can we make the process less wasteful for others in the future? ➨ inspire federation ➨ new collaborators

Actions of type 'fork' change the ownership of a page. Actions of type 'create' indicate newly made pages.

Rinse ➨ Edit ➨ Repeat ➨ Edit ➨ Share

Actions of type 'add', 'delete' and 'move' arrange the processes. Actions of type 'edit' change the contents of a story item.

Publish Question and answer workflow ➨ Edit ➨ Relax ➨ ...

The Journal, when properly maintained, collects the complete history of a wiki page.

System

We consider the risks of building federated wiki or anything else permanent on something as fragile as information.