Work and thought notes for 2019-10-28

  • Scrapbox’s philosophy that machine generation of content is a garbage dump. - making a house into a garbage dump

  • In fact, I’ve poured over Twitter logs and other information in the past and feel that it wasn’t good enough.

  • On the other hand, I’m looking at /masui’s Putting Book Scans PDFs in Scrapbox 2019 approach and think

    • Sufficient in fulfilling the “read from front to back” function of paper books.
    • Is this the first step in getting better Forms of Knowledge Representation than paper books?
  • in other words

    • Machine generation and automatic import are not evil.
    • After machine generation and automatic import, additional man-hours are needed to make it an organic network
      • The knowledge of what to do with these additional man-hours and how much activity to do is still unclear.
      • So if a “person unfamiliar with Scrapbox” mechanically creates a page, the subsequent learning curve is too steep and frustrating.
  • Need to verbalize what it takes to make knowledge into an organic network

    • Now that we’ve exceeded 5,000 human-powered pages, we should try “machine-generated content” again.
  • On the other hand, I’m worried that we’re destroying the fun by pouring machine-generated content into this project.

    • There should be another project.
    • I made it.
      • /nishio-a Project to import everything available to the public in Nishio
      • /nishio-z Project to import everything, including the unpublishable in Nishio
  • Merging is required

    • What happens when additional JSON is imported into an existing project with duplicate titles?
    • They think it will be overridden.
      • →In that case, you will not be able to import for fear of destroying existing project content
    • Merged?
      • This makes me feel safe.
    • If the current Scrapbox specification is to overwrite rather than merge, then you need to merge on hand and then import the overwrite.
    • Confirmed: overwritten
      • Ready to import 2 pages. 2 pages will be overwritten: test, How to use Scrapbox

  • work memo - Putting Book Scans PDFs in Scrapbox 2019


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