{"id":1916,"date":"2011-08-07T00:56:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T23:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/?p=1916"},"modified":"2011-08-07T00:56:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T23:56:01","slug":"forking-conversations-forking-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/07\/forking-conversations-forking-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"Forking conversations, forking documents"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the topic of discussion changes, how do you indicate that? Tender Support seems clunky in some ways, but their forking mechanism helps conversations stay focused on their topic:<\/p>\n

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Forking with Tender Support<\/p><\/div>\n

Lately forking has also been on my mind<\/a> as the Library Linked Data group edits and reorganizes our draft report<\/a>: wiki history and version control is helpful, but insufficient. What I miss most is a “fork” feature, where you could temporarily take ownership of a copy (socially, this indicates that something is a possibility, rather than the consensus; technically, it indicates provenance, would allow “show all forks of this”, and might help in merge changes back). Perhaps naming and tagging particular history items in MediaWiki could help address this, but I think really I want something like git.<\/p>\n

I’ve seen a few examples of writing<\/a> and editing<\/a> prose with git; I’d like to get a better understanding of the best practices for making collaborative changes in texts with distributed version control systems. Surely somebody’s written up manuals on this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When the topic of discussion changes, how do you indicate that? Tender Support seems clunky in some ways, but their forking mechanism helps conversations stay focused on their topic: Lately forking has also been on my mind as the Library Linked Data group edits and reorganizes our draft report: wiki history and version control is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,64,174,96],"tags":[432,429,431,427,428,430,267],"class_list":["post-1916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-argumentative-discussions","category-library-and-information-science","category-phd-diary","category-random-thoughts","tag-document-management","tag-dvcs","tag-editing","tag-forking","tag-git","tag-version-control","tag-wikis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1919,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions\/1919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}