One idea I had, but lack the chops to implement.
One idea I had, but lack the chops to implement.
The major problem with new agents' understanding of the things we find is that there are so many points of entry, and only the dedicated can find how it all ties together. There is a wiki, but you have to more or less know what you're looking for. And the story of all this is one of many connections and ties, that once arrived at, open up new vistas of understanding.
What would be nice is a system wherein there are a set of wiki pages, but they're tied together by semantic tags, and there is a presentation layer that will show you timelines of events.
So you'd search for, say, Waratah, and get a list of all the players involved, and a chronology of things tagged with that. Each salient event gets its own page, but you can keep going through timelines and seeing parallels and connections in an intuitive way.
We could use the existing wiki as a base, but then we need to figure the templating system out that would draw upon it to present this information in such a way that would foment new connections.
For example, you'd have a page for Hank Johnson. On that page would be all the known significant actions we have for him, and a rough time or point of relation to other events (such as "Wrote paper on power points", "Visited Congo", "Deployed power cube", "Broke into CERN", etc.) This would develop organically, and would mostly be based on biographical info. Each sub-event gets a tag of when we can best figure it happened (or at least a larger thing it's tied to, like a book or anomaly) and then a series of all the other events it's salient to. So, Hank erasing the glyph on Jarvis would get tagged with a rough time, and then, say, "Glyphs", "Jarvis", "Post-Niantic", "Dark XM", "Level 8", "CERN", and the list of tags could grow as needed. This would help us develop a better structure of who did what when, and reveal connections not otherwise apparent.
Catching up is heck of hard and gets harder every day. This might help a bit.
The major problem with new agents' understanding of the things we find is that there are so many points of entry, and only the dedicated can find how it all ties together. There is a wiki, but you have to more or less know what you're looking for. And the story of all this is one of many connections and ties, that once arrived at, open up new vistas of understanding.
What would be nice is a system wherein there are a set of wiki pages, but they're tied together by semantic tags, and there is a presentation layer that will show you timelines of events.
So you'd search for, say, Waratah, and get a list of all the players involved, and a chronology of things tagged with that. Each salient event gets its own page, but you can keep going through timelines and seeing parallels and connections in an intuitive way.
We could use the existing wiki as a base, but then we need to figure the templating system out that would draw upon it to present this information in such a way that would foment new connections.
For example, you'd have a page for Hank Johnson. On that page would be all the known significant actions we have for him, and a rough time or point of relation to other events (such as "Wrote paper on power points", "Visited Congo", "Deployed power cube", "Broke into CERN", etc.) This would develop organically, and would mostly be based on biographical info. Each sub-event gets a tag of when we can best figure it happened (or at least a larger thing it's tied to, like a book or anomaly) and then a series of all the other events it's salient to. So, Hank erasing the glyph on Jarvis would get tagged with a rough time, and then, say, "Glyphs", "Jarvis", "Post-Niantic", "Dark XM", "Level 8", "CERN", and the list of tags could grow as needed. This would help us develop a better structure of who did what when, and reveal connections not otherwise apparent.
Catching up is heck of hard and gets harder every day. This might help a bit.
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