Smelling like a wiki

Writing

This text is written in a wiki with 579 pages, made through 5,643 edits, written by 36 contributors, of which 2 are active, and in the middle of 280 uploaded files. We're writing in the WikiEditor, which is the simple text editor that is enabled by default when you install a new MediaWiki instance. I had to check the Special:Version page to find the name of this text editor.

Who else has been around on this wiki recently?

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Who else has an account?

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What were the latest pages that were made?

27 May 2026

• 07:1207:12, 27 May 2026 Debooklet (hist | edit) [322 bytes] Manetta (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* PDF page resize: https://ghostscript.readthedocs.io/en/gs10.05.1/Use.html#choosing-paper-size * PDF splitting: https://superuser.com/questions/1546709/can-mutool-split-a-big-pdf-file-into-individual-pdf-pages * debooklet tool: https://github.com/wspringer/debooklet via https://post.lurk.org/@doriane/116628774671755676")

19 May 2026

• 15:5715:57, 19 May 2026 Ikiwiki (hist | edit) [2,247 bytes] Manetta (talk | contribs) (Created page with "This page is here to share my experiences with ikiwiki after having worked with it for the [https://hub.xpub.nl/rushtonhosts/everything-magazine-archive/ everything magazine archive] together with Simon and/for Steve. ==Server configs== ===nginx=== /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default <syntaxhighlight> # Enable CGI for ikiwiki location ~ \.cgi$ { auth_basic "If you are the lucky winner of the password quiz, please complete the rubric belo...")

25 March 2026

• 21:2321:23, 25 March 2026 Constant SPLINT zines (hist | edit) [2,023 bytes] Manetta (talk | contribs) (Created page with "600px The first annual Constant zine, made in 2023 by the Constant team & Manetta Berends & Alix Turcq, made in a customized version of octomode: the technodisobedience branch, see below! https://constantvzw.org/sponge/s/?u=https://calibre.constantvzw.org/book/207 <blockquote> "In 2023 Constant started a new series of yearly publications connected to the new artistic programme covering the programme 2023-2027. This publi...")
• 20:5620:56, 25 March 2026 HD Bulletin (hist | edit) [603 bytes] Manetta (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==HD Bulletin 6== 600px <blockquote> "The H&D Bulletin is an occasional publication that brings together practical and reflective articles, conversations and manuals, experimental, poetic, visual, or otherwise speculative contributions from the H&D cosmos." </blockquote> https://hackersanddesigners.nl/hd-bulletin-6.html ==HD Bulletin 7== 600px https://hackersanddesigners.nl/hd-bulletin-7.html https://lepa.hackersa...")
• 20:4920:49, 25 March 2026 Special Issue 26: Declarations (hist | edit) [701 bytes] Manetta (talk | contribs) (Created page with "In the spring of 2025, XPUB invited Doriane Timmermans as guest editor/tutor of Special Issue 26: Declarations. Octomode was used in class to introduce the students to CSS Print practices, and for the production of a sticker set and event poster. https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/SI26 https://varia.zone/en/2025/xpub-declarations-special-issue-launch/ ===Sticker sheet=== 600px Sticker sheet made by Charlie during the XPUB Special...")

Which are pages yet to be made?

1. Flat (3 links)
2. Inkscape (3 links)
3. Paged.js (3 links)
4. ReportLab (3 links)
5. Scribus (3 links)
6. Weasyprint (3 links)
7. 8 years of Médor, CSS Regions and OSPKit (1 link)
8. CTRL+P zine (1 link)
9. Conversation with Lucile for the web2print library (1 link)
10. Non-linearity (1 link)
11. Publishing-as-environment (1 link)
12. Radio interview with Julien Bidoret & Quentin Juhel (1 link)
13. Radio interview with Paged.js (1 link)

What are the 5 last files that have been uploaded?

Date	Name	Thumbnail	Size	User	Description	Versions
23:33, 19 April 2026	Thoughts-on-sex-work.png (file)		254 KB	Simoon (talk | contribs)		1
21:42, 25 March 2026	Flyerconstanta2-82dd7.jpg (file)		93 KB	Manetta (talk | contribs)	Category:Octomode	1
20:56, 25 March 2026	Scan-cover7.jpg (file)		744 KB	Manetta (talk | contribs)		1
08:33, 19 March 2026	DBPrize 128 TPG HeatherShuker.jpg (file)		594 KB	Manetta (talk | contribs)	CC part of https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/connection-established-digital-folklore-and-web-craft ! March 2026	1
10:27, 13 February 2026	Last-line-full-justified.png (file)		81 KB	Simoon (talk | contribs)		1

And who contributed to this page?

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In a wiki, writers are contributors. This shifts the act of writing from a traditional understanding of an individual (genius) author, towards someone contributing to a distributed practice of writing text.

Rendering layout

Wiki-to-print as a practice

Wiki-to-print is part of a broader interest in making publications using code and layout engines, instead of canvas and GUI based tools, as it allows us to work in collective modes and explore what this means, while being entangled with other communities of practice through the open standards (HTML and CSS) and tools (Mediawiki, Paged.js) we use. This means that books are being generated through scripts, newspapers rendered from multiple networked sources, or zines written HTML and CSS.

Using a wiki as an editing-design environment shifts multiple things around. What we currently refer to as wiki-to-print or wiki-layouting [i think we need a cute catchy name!] is actually a genealogy of practices of generating publications through a wiki. The trail includes work done at Constant in Brussels, Open Source Publishing in Brussels, the making of the book Volumetric Regimes in between Barcelona-Brussels-London-Rotterdam by Possible Bodies and Manetta Berends, the setup at The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest (TITiPI) by Femke Snelting and Martino Morandi in Brussels, the book Making Matters made by Hackers & Designers in Amsterdam, the making of the research newspapers Toward a Minor Tech and Content/Form with Geoff Cox, Christian Ulrikson, Winnie Soon and Varia/CC represented by Simon Browne and Manetta Berends in London-Rotterdam-Berlin. In all these occasions, wiki is used as a shared place for materials, editorial work and the making of the layout. Writing and design work can happen in a non-linear way and evolve parallel to each other, which invites to rethink editorial production workflows. Publications can be re-rendered over time, embracing the changes and transformations that might have emerged in between now and the previous edition. The versioning tracker and features like transclusion challenge traditional notions of authorship and modes of writing. Often a wiki becomes a rich messy archive and plays an important role as community infrastructure.