Wiki Writing Workshop

For today's wiki dojo (2025-08-03), Brian has asked us to experiment with a workshop inspired by pattern language writing workshops. We are to read a wiki, starting with a specific lineup, and discuss the structure more than the content. lineup

How would someone fluent in hieroglyphs be entertained, offended, or confused by these annotations? (For context, I am self-conscious about how I interpret the characters in one native spelling of aikido to my students: 合気道. I am not fluent in Japanese and almost certainly misinterpret the etymology of the word or attribute too much to the iconography. And more to the point, when talking about distributed systems I do not take much interest in the etymology of "distributed" or of "systems", so I feel suspicious of my own story when teaching about aikido).

After following this link—Conduit Metaphor𓍯—I noticed the feature of having the glyph annotation in the link instead of in the page. Contrast Programmers Don't Much Use Metaphor where there is a purpose attached to the page itself. I see now that a page might serve different purposes in the context of the referring page. In one narrative journey the page might be an aside. In another journey the page might be an example. In still another journey the same page might be primary content for the narrative.