Collaboration (or How Can I Help?)

A quote from one of the librarians, which I think, represents everyone contributing here.

I want to get some smarties in here, thinking through how best to accomplish that...

Thoughts:

0. at the least this will reflect the notetaker's knowledge, perhaps that is enough...
1. invite some friends to build the library: (are you a library minded person? please reach out)
   1. restricted access to those in the know / capable, and have the talent to do the proper work justice.
   2. restricted access to those who respect the ancient sources & ammon (no seminarians... no bad actors).
   3. if you're unaligned, you'll be BOOTED. no hard feelings (yeah we can talk about it if there's some mistake, we're all human...)
2. For LadyBabylon
   1. it's all about Dr Hillman's livestreams / lectures, unadulterated representation of his lectures w/ supporting information to fill in the gaps he leaves (he'll often allude to something with a single word - or refer to past episodes. We can help connect the dots for people).
   2. For topics outside Ammon's, keep it relevant, and put those in a clearly marked as outside of Ammon's lectures.
3. For HypatiaGnostikoi, sticking to the theme here: painting a historical big picture and what's behind the world's religions, holidays, naming of the days of the week, etc..., generally.

Finally:

• Needless to say, i'll be looking to give out logins but they'll be very limited and very much vetted (proven scholarship in the relevant communities)... and we'll need to communicate about what belongs where.

• without a login, you can always write up notes or a transcript for a video, or write an article, and submit it

Dragons

If you're given a login, you'll be one of the dragons (temple guardians) here, "guarding the information".

Academic Integrity

LadyBabylon

• We strive to be accurate to the source texts that we cite. Taking accurate notes on the speakers we document. Providing accurate supplemental information when it tells a better more deeper story.
• We strive to cite the reference, and not just give the text without a citation (what work it's from, a link if possible)
• In many cases we prefer technical writing rigor based in the real, than wild metaphor, flowery language. We prefer Reality to Fairy Tale, and technical precision to vagueness. That said, there's instances where you learn to have ears to hear, and this can be metaphorical - sure - but it DOES map to the real 100%. we try to define that vox with ever increasing rigor in the Orphic Vox Glossary an eternal work in progress.
• We strive to also write essays / articles that make sense of the findings from the lectures, livestreams, and source texts.
  • They ideally would be well-supported with citations and source texts.
  • If you don't see citations and texts, these articles are general impressions based on the other well-supported wiki articles, or they may be a work in progress and we still need to dig up a reference to make it more complete.
  • They're founded on the best of our knowledge to be in the realm of relevancy.
• We will be transparent when we don't know, or when an article is still developing.

HypatiaGnostikoi

• Is a little looser, will be more essays / articles, and impressions.
• We'll cite books when possible / appropriate.

Paradox

• There's a universe in one person's head right now, someday we'll get to see it :)

Formatting standards

• be clear
• separate the source text into a box, to set it apart from ammon's or notetaker commentary
• check the hierarchy of headings makes sense (place a table of contents to observe it, if needed)
• paste directly from Alice which will capture formatting (occasionally need to fix)
• use OCR tooling to convert screenshots to text.
• when linking to video - please link to that video's wiki topic instead. direct links to video are great within the topic for that video. but otherwise, we can do better by linking to the transcript or section of notes for that livestream. this will build a more robust / self-contained library. (if doesn't exist, consider if creating a new wiki topic for that video is appropriate)

Mechanics

Q: Why aren't my edits showing up on the site?

A: We have a review process where edits dont go live immediately. This is to protect the library from bad actors. But we'll periodically push your changes, dont worry. Feel free to reach out to give a nudge and we'll make it happen faster.

Why Markdown, What is Markdown?

We use markdown:

1. to keep formatting consistant across everything
2. remove formatting decisions from us (focus on the work) - which removes a lot off our plate, but we still lay things out, we have to.
3. keeps the STORAGE format human readable in case we ever lose the server or something (html would be too, but ... yeah. whatever. simpler storage format for the win).

Learning: if you have edit access, then hit the (?) at the top of the editor. [markdown test] also describes most of the markdown that is supported on this wiki site.

• markdown test - also contains some examples to play with...

• formatting best practices - some best practices, recommentations of topic writing here

Changes

Review the ChangeLog here.

Final Word from Dr Hillman

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