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News and Research
I've typed up notes from a very information-rich one-on-one session with Roan Kattouw, author of much of MediaWiki's API code, on how to write an extension that provides custom API calls and uses Ajax to invoke them:
http://lalashan.mcmaster.ca/theobio/worden/index.php/Wikipedia_SF_Hackat...
It might be useful to integrate some of this into the official documentation on mediawiki.org. For right now I've just dumped it into my wiki.
I'll be at the Wikipedia Hackathon in San Francisco all weekend. The event is focusing on the software's API and Javascript tools, so I'm hoping to come out prepared to bring WorkingWiki into the 21st century with an attractive, extra-usable fluid interface that doesn't make you wait for all your computations to finish before you get to see the wiki page...
I'm working on a new paper on the research wiki:
http://lalashan.mcmaster.ca/theobio/worden/index.php/Laplacian_Paper
It's about using the structure of a network (its graph Laplacian, for those who care) to operate on the network's structure itself. Sort of blurring out the network connections so that I get more connected to my friends' friends, like (if it's a social network).
My existing math and simulations on this project are also on the wiki.
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After some good conversations with Joe Corneli of planetmath.org at last summer's ITP workshop and since, I'm happy to say I've become a member of Planet Math's Advisory Board! Now I can give them advice, if anything comes to mind.
Who's been reading my stuff...
The #SciFund challenge has just closed its fundraising period, and my project with it. I raised $1,321 from 26 people, which is just fine with me. The #SciFund challenge as a whole, with 49 projects participating, raised $76,230 from 1440 people!
I'll be getting to work on putting the money to use in the next few months. Stay tuned.
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My crowd-funded research project is closing up the fundraising phase on Thursday morning, so if you've been putting off contributing, wait no longer! Gift donations in another person's name, matching funds, other creative options accepted.
RocketHub: Mathematics of Direct Democracy
Using mathematical modeling to investigate the possibilities of democratic consensus process
Wallace wrote the syllabi for his classes just about as well as he wrote his novels, which is pretty damn well. Here they are, and here.
I'm passing them on here to share them with the world, and also to record where they are, so I can come back and study them the next time I have to write a syllabus.
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