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Ontology covers the structural patterns of the wiki, in the work of wp:ontology, reaching for the simplest way to structure the shared knowledge here, to help participants keep the wiki up to date, through ease of navigation and understanding, and consistency in organization.

This page discusses the fundamental structure of the wiki, in its current design, and hopefully receives updates as the structure is added on to, while retaining historical motivations at ready textual reference.

In metaphysics, ontology is the philosophical study of being. It investigates what types of entities exist, how they are grouped into categories, and how they are related to one another on the most fundamental level (and whether there even is a fundamental level).

The compound word ontology ('study of being') combines:

onto- (Greek: ὄν, on;[note 1] gen. ὄντος, ontos, 'being' or 'that which is') and
-logia (-λογία, 'logical discourse').

Elements of Structure

Namespaces (mw:Help...) of the wiki support keeping separate types of pages apart. MediaWiki software treats different pages differently, and parses wiki text to transform {{templates}} into text, and index [[Category:Wiki]] pages into categories. Other pages can be used as templates, from the (main)/Article namespace {{:Guilds}} can be included (with partial transclusion filters in its wikitext), as can {{:Category:Usage}}

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Guilds (Volunteer) | Maintainers | Meta | Code | Electronics | Fabrication | Games | Sewing | Music | AI | Neuro | Philosophy | Funding | Art | Security | Ham | WGs E


Guilds are self-organized groups that maintain Resources and organize Events at Noisebridge — each a self-governing "mini Noisebridge," free to operate according to its own conditions and best practices.

If you have questions about space use or items owned by a guild, see Guilds/Contact.

Hacking, it's more than just electronics
Craft hacking
Video editing

How to Join a Guild

If you use a guild's tools or space regularly, you may already be part of a guild!

What makes a guild different from just using a resource? Intention.

A guild is a group of people who've decided, explicitly, that they're responsible for keeping that resource alive for the next person.

The next step is making that explicit: showing up to help, asking what needs doing, and getting to know the people who keep things running.

Most Guilds have a regular meeting time. Make it your business to come to that meeting sometimes so you can meet people, share knowledge, and learn what the Guild needs and how you can help.

All guilds have a Discord channel (listed below). That's the fastest way to find out when people are around and what's happening.

The Guild concept is a home-grown Noisebridge cultural structure based on anarcho-syndicalism.

For philosophy, guidance, and patterns to follow, see MetaGuild.

Infrastructure Guilds

Currently Active Guilds

Games

Fabrication

Art & Creativity

Tech & Learning

  • AI/ML Meetup: Hosts regular discussion and MooC co-working learning.

Culture

  • Philosophy: Ongoing discussion of philosophy, ethics, and ideas.
  • MetaGuild: Patterns and guidance for starting and sustaining guilds.

Unknown Status

Proposed guilds

  • Art : Start improving NB art resources, classes and decorations by meeting for Artbridge.

Guild Checklist

The goal of a guild isn't just to keep the lights on — it's to Create More Masters: a growing group of people at varying levels of skill and commitment, where the more experienced are constantly training and upskilling others.

  • START SOMEWHERE: A guild needs at least one person willing to show up consistently and invite others in.
  • GROW THE PIPELINE: Invite people to learn, not just to show up. Look for interested people on Discord and in the space. Acknowledge every level of contribution — the person who sweeps up is as important as the person who fixes the machine.
  • GIVE CREDIT GENEROUSLY: Credit is how we distribute trust. Name people who help. Celebrate skill publicly.
  • TELL PEOPLE WHEN: Post current meeting times and events somewhere people can find them.
  • TELL PEOPLE HOW TO FIND YOU: Discord channel, wiki page, something.
  • TAKE NOTES: Written notes mean the guild's knowledge outlives any one person.
  • POST PHOTOS: At least one photo of your resources in their current state. Update it when things change.
  • NO SINGLE POINT OF FAILURE: If the guild would collapse when you leave, that's the next problem to solve. See MetaGuild.


MAINTENANCE

  • HISTORY SECTION: Outdated info moved to History sections at bottom of pages or entirely old pages marked { { historic } } if they won't be updated or { { outdated } } if they need updating.

Group Patterns

For patterns and guidance on running a healthy guild, see MetaGuild.


Style Guide For Guild Pages

The two best examples of well-formatted guild pages so far are games and sewing. Emulate those or improve further.

Use the guild template on top

Put the { {guilds} } template on top of the page. (View source to see how this is done with double curly braces around guild). 

{{guilds}}

List Maintainers and add recruiting template if it is below 2

Put a list of maintainers at the very top of the page with 0 if there are none signed up. Add the { { recruitnig } } template to include a volunteers needed infobox: 


{{recruiting}}

To use in future

Wikipedia Editable Templates

Example on Wikipedia: Infobox_country 

{{ManualPage}}

Past Organizational Models

About Category usage

  • To Categor-ize a page, include: [[Wiki/Ontology]]
  • To link the page of a Category, include: [[:Wiki/Ontology]]
  • To transclude a Category's content, include: {{:Wiki/Ontology}}; invoking it as a template

See also, help:formatting or help:editing, or Wiki/Learn.

(many other link-types at mw:Namespaces)

Structure: Current & Growing

WGs

Working Groups maintain aspects of the space, for the direct benefit of everyone and anyone, and not just for member, e.g. of guilds. They may exist in ongoing perpetuity or be formed to address a particular challenge.

Working Groups are helpful as an entity name with a lower threshold for starting or abandoning that Guilds.

Category:WG can help organize pages by merely tagging them with one of the WG sub-categories.

Guilds

Noisebridge | About | Visit | 272 | Manual | Contact | Guilds | Stuff | Events | Projects | Meetings | Donate E
Guilds (Volunteer) | Maintainers | Meta | Code | Electronics | Fabrication | Games | Sewing | Music | AI | Neuro | Philosophy | Funding | Art | Security | Ham | WGs E


Guilds are self-organized groups that maintain Resources and organize Events at Noisebridge — each a self-governing "mini Noisebridge," free to operate according to its own conditions and best practices.

If you have questions about space use or items owned by a guild, see Guilds/Contact.

Hacking, it's more than just electronics
Craft hacking
Video editing

How to Join a Guild

If you use a guild's tools or space regularly, you may already be part of a guild!

What makes a guild different from just using a resource? Intention.

A guild is a group of people who've decided, explicitly, that they're responsible for keeping that resource alive for the next person.

The next step is making that explicit: showing up to help, asking what needs doing, and getting to know the people who keep things running.

Most Guilds have a regular meeting time. Make it your business to come to that meeting sometimes so you can meet people, share knowledge, and learn what the Guild needs and how you can help.

All guilds have a Discord channel (listed below). That's the fastest way to find out when people are around and what's happening.

The Guild concept is a home-grown Noisebridge cultural structure based on anarcho-syndicalism.

For philosophy, guidance, and patterns to follow, see MetaGuild.

Infrastructure Guilds

Currently Active Guilds

Games

Fabrication

Art & Creativity

Tech & Learning

  • AI/ML Meetup: Hosts regular discussion and MooC co-working learning.

Culture

  • Philosophy: Ongoing discussion of philosophy, ethics, and ideas.
  • MetaGuild: Patterns and guidance for starting and sustaining guilds.

Unknown Status

Proposed guilds

  • Art : Start improving NB art resources, classes and decorations by meeting for Artbridge.

Guild Checklist

The goal of a guild isn't just to keep the lights on — it's to Create More Masters: a growing group of people at varying levels of skill and commitment, where the more experienced are constantly training and upskilling others.

  • START SOMEWHERE: A guild needs at least one person willing to show up consistently and invite others in.
  • GROW THE PIPELINE: Invite people to learn, not just to show up. Look for interested people on Discord and in the space. Acknowledge every level of contribution — the person who sweeps up is as important as the person who fixes the machine.
  • GIVE CREDIT GENEROUSLY: Credit is how we distribute trust. Name people who help. Celebrate skill publicly.
  • TELL PEOPLE WHEN: Post current meeting times and events somewhere people can find them.
  • TELL PEOPLE HOW TO FIND YOU: Discord channel, wiki page, something.
  • TAKE NOTES: Written notes mean the guild's knowledge outlives any one person.
  • POST PHOTOS: At least one photo of your resources in their current state. Update it when things change.
  • NO SINGLE POINT OF FAILURE: If the guild would collapse when you leave, that's the next problem to solve. See MetaGuild.


MAINTENANCE

  • HISTORY SECTION: Outdated info moved to History sections at bottom of pages or entirely old pages marked { { historic } } if they won't be updated or { { outdated } } if they need updating.

Group Patterns

For patterns and guidance on running a healthy guild, see MetaGuild.


Style Guide For Guild Pages

The two best examples of well-formatted guild pages so far are games and sewing. Emulate those or improve further.

Use the guild template on top

Put the { {guilds} } template on top of the page. (View source to see how this is done with double curly braces around guild). 

{{guilds}}

List Maintainers and add recruiting template if it is below 2

Put a list of maintainers at the very top of the page with 0 if there are none signed up. Add the { { recruitnig } } template to include a volunteers needed infobox: 


{{recruiting}}

To use in future

Wikipedia Editable Templates

Example on Wikipedia: Infobox_country 

{{ManualPage}}

Past Organizational Models

Structure: Proposals

IGs: Interest Groups

Interest groups would capture temporary (T IG?) (or permanent (P IG)) self-study meetings, for example Cryptopal_wg.

Use subpages for namespacing

This page demonstrates this. User pages frequently rely on subpages.

Including for templates

Template:header/guilds, could link to subpage guilds/header, use selective/partial transclusion.

Including for categories

I don't remember the names of the tags to mark wiki pages for later work and updates, outdated, historic, are there others? Let's namespace these under a common extremely short wiki page template name, with compatible categor(y/ies), to include a heirarchy that can be wandered, even in the tag/template/category structure.

Perhaps call it "WikiWork", {{ww/outdated}}, but {{ww}} is included there, and includes a link to its: category, template and those pages include non-partially-transcluded explanations of their purpose, of the child pages in the heirarchy, and sibling pages that a user might want to use instead.

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