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<h2 id="revisiting-epicpedia-2024">Revisiting Epicpedia (2024)</h2>
<p><a href="https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Epicpedia">Epicpedia</a>
was a graduation work made in 2008 by then Networked Media student
Annemieke van der Hoek. Annemieke would present the work, in
collaboration with her sister as a <a
href="https://video.constantvzw.org/vj12/.index/epicpedia.ogv/play.mp4">theater
performance and discussion</a> at the <a
href="https://constantvzw.org/vj12/">VJ12 festival in Brussels</a>, Nov
2009 (<a
href="https://video.constantvzw.org/vj12/.index/Epicpedia_Final.ogv/play.mp4">summary</a>).</p>
<p>This sketch revisits the original idea at the core of the project:
though we tend to read Wikipedia articles as a unified linear text
representing the latest revision, they are in fact are written in a much
more conversational manner with often thousands of individual edits,
corrections, deletions, and contestations. All these edits are
(meticulously) tracked and are made publically available when one views
the <em>history</em> of an article. Besides the edits themselves, edits
are associated with the user account or IP address (if made
<em>anonymously</em>) of the author, a timestamp, as well as an optional
comment, often the justification of the edit, and a flag for whether or
not the edit was is considered “minor”.</p>
<p>A wikipedia edit may be small, as in fixing a typo, or large, such as
the addition of a new section, or contentious, such as changing existing
wording to reflect a different point of view. No matter the size or
intent, however, each edit contains a collection of <em>meta-data</em>
about the edit. In Epicpedia, this <em>meta-data</em> was likened to the
meta-text of a stage play, ie the stage directions, and other texts in a
screenplay besides the actual lines that are spoken. In invoking the
figure of Berthold Brecht, and the ideas of Epic Theater, a parallel is
made between the intents of Brechtian “distancing” as a means of
heightened engagement with a theater piece through an acknolwedgement of
its construction and artificiality, with the experience of engaging with
a contemporary web publishing platform such as Wikipedia.</p>
<p>Lets consider this article on the english language Wikipedia about
recent Nobel prize for Literature winner Han Kang:</p>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Kang"
class="uri">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Kang</a></p>
<p>Looking at this articles <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Han_Kang&amp;action=history">history</a>,
we can go back in time (click on “oldest” near the bottom) to find that
the article was created in August 2010:</p>
<p><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Han_Kang&amp;oldid=376586279"
class="uri">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Han_Kang&amp;oldid=376586279</a></p>
<p>Note that when you click on “View history”, the URL changes to reveal
the actual underlying URL structure. The URL of the api is the same,
just replace “index.php” with “api.php”.</p>
<p>The original was based on server-side python scripts.</p>
<p>Following example begrudginly given here:</p>
<p>https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52283962/how-to-find-textual-differences-between-revisions-on-wikipedia-pages-with-mwclie</p>
<p>So the standard (action-based) mediawiki API provides a <a
href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Compare">Compare
action</a>.</p>
<p>The examples given on API:Revisions page, show for instance how to
access the last 5 edits of an article:</p>
<p><a
href="https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&amp;prop=revisions&amp;titles=MediaWiki&amp;rvlimit=5&amp;rvprop=timestamp%7Cuser%7Ccomment"
class="uri">https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&amp;prop=revisions&amp;titles=MediaWiki&amp;rvlimit=5&amp;rvprop=timestamp|user|comment</a></p>
<p>or the first 5 edits:</p>
<p><a
href="https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&amp;prop=revisions&amp;titles=MediaWiki&amp;rvlimit=5&amp;rvprop=timestamp%7Cuser%7Ccomment&amp;rvdir=newer"
class="uri">https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&amp;prop=revisions&amp;titles=MediaWiki&amp;rvlimit=5&amp;rvprop=timestamp|user|comment&amp;rvdir=newer</a></p>
<p>The code we will use also makes use of the <a
href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URLSearchParams">URLSearchParams</a>
class in js.</p>
<p>We will also make use of the mediawikis <a
href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Revisions">Revisions
API</a></p>
<p>Adding ids and flags</p>
<p><a
href="https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&amp;prop=revisions&amp;titles=MediaWiki&amp;rvlimit=5&amp;rvprop=timestamp%7Cuser%7Ccomment%7Cids%7Cflags&amp;rvdir=newer"
class="uri">https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&amp;prop=revisions&amp;titles=MediaWiki&amp;rvlimit=5&amp;rvprop=timestamp|user|comment|ids|flags&amp;rvdir=newer</a></p>
<p>adapted to Han Kangs entry on wikipedia (note the change of
host!)…</p>
<p><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&amp;prop=revisions&amp;titles=Han%20Kang&amp;rvlimit=5&amp;rvprop=timestamp%7Cuser%7Ccomment%7Cids%7Cflags&amp;rvdir=newer"
class="uri">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&amp;prop=revisions&amp;titles=Han%20Kang&amp;rvlimit=5&amp;rvprop=timestamp|user|comment|ids|flags&amp;rvdir=newer</a></p>
<p>See: <a href="epicpedia_2024.html">epicpedia_2024</a>.</p>
<h3 id="lorraine-code-rhetorical-space">Lorraine Code: Rhetorical
Space</h3>
<blockquote>
<p>Rhetorical spaces… are fictive but not fanciful or fixed locations,
whose (tacit, rarely spoken) territorial imperatives structure and limit
the kinds of utterances that can be voiced within them with <strong>a
reasonable expectation of uptake and “choral support”: an expectation of
being heard, understood, taken seriously.</strong> They are the sites
where the very possibility of an utterance counting as “true-or-false”
or of a discussion yielding insight is made manifest. Some simple
examples will indicate what I mean the term to achieve….</p>
<p>Imagine trying to make a true statement about whether it is more
convenient to fly into Newark or La Guardia airport in the year 1600.
<strong>The statement would not be false but meaningless</strong>: it
could neither be true nor false within the available discursive
possibilities. Or imagine trying to have a productive public debate
about abortion in the Vatican in 1995, where there is no available
rhetorical space, not because the actual speech acts involved would be
overtly prohibited, but because the available rhetorical space is not
one where ideas on such a topic can be heard and debated openly,
responsively…</p>
<p>What I want this terminology [rhetorical space] to do [is], namely to
deflect the focus of philosophical analysis <strong>away from single and
presumably self-contained propositional utterances pronounced by no one
in particular and as though into a neutral space</strong>; and to
<strong>move it into textured locations where it matters who is speaking
and where and why, and where such mattering bears directly upon the
possibility of knowledge claims, moral pronouncements, descriptions of
“reality” achieving acknowledgment</strong>, going through. Often in
such spaces discourse becomes a poiesis, a way of representing
experience, reality, that remakes and alters it in the process. And the
making is ordinarily a communal process, dependent for its continuance
on receptive conditions, on engaged responses both favourable and
critical. (p. x )</p>
</blockquote>
<h2 id="epicpedia">Epicpedia</h2>
<p>In the video summary (by Maniseng Peng and Petar Veljacic)</p>
<p>Theres a quote from Brecht:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is
split into warring factions.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Femkes comment on exploring the space of what knowledge is able to
be created..</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Trying to define what is knowledge; so people invest time and energy
in this , which is its own tragedy in a way… what i miss, in your
presentation and in the discussion, is an anlaysis of the reality and
the <em>space that wikipedia itself is</em>.</p>
</blockquote>
<h2 id="momentjs">momentjs</h2>
<p>Use <a href="https://momentjs.com/">momentjs</a> to format relative
times?</p>
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