Smelling like a wiki
This text is written in a wiki. 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:
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N 21:45 | Constant SPLINT zines 3 changes history +2,023 [Manetta (3×)] | |||
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21:23 (cur | prev) +1,128 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...") | |||
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21:42 Manetta talk contribs uploaded File:Flyerconstanta2-82dd7.jpg (Category:Octomode) | ||||
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N 20:57 | HD Bulletin 2 changes history +603 [Manetta (2×)] | |||
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20:56 (cur | prev) +529 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...") | |||
| N 20:49 | Special Issue 26: Declarations diffhist +701 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...") | ||||
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N 20:44 | So, you decided to make a zine using octomode 3 changes history +983 [Manetta (3×)] | |||
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20:39 (cur | prev) +845 Manetta talk contribs (Created page with "==First version== 600px A zine made by Simon for a zine-making workshop during his exhibition residency at the Leitrim Sculpture Centre, June 2025. <blockquote> "This zine is an ouroboric guide to making zines with octomode, a collective editing space for PDF making in a web browser (such as Firefox, Chrome/Chromium, etc)... And to feed the snake its own tail even more, this zine was also made using octomode!" </blockquote>...") | |||
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N 20:25 | Social in the Media 2 changes history +1,095 [Manetta (2×)] | |||
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20:25 (cur | prev) +1,072 Manetta talk contribs (Created page with "600px <blockquote> Within the past six and a half years, Varia has experimented with the work of instituting a cultural organisation outside the confines of Big Tech technologies. What kind of cultural work is made possible when your organisation’s digital infrastructure is using free and open source software built by peers, digital services hosted by friends, and digital resources shared by activist organisations? What possibilitie...") | |||
| N 20:22 | Anarchokrant diffhist +244 Manetta talk contribs (Created page with "600px Grassroots and activist news in the Netherlands. Dutch language. Turns up every now and again. More editions available [https://forumvooranarchisme.nl/anarchokrant-downloads here]. Category:Octomode") | ||||
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N 20:20 | Free palestine reader 2 changes history +470 [Manetta (2×)] | |||
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20:19 (cur | prev) +468 Manetta talk contribs (Created page with "600px A zine made in 3 hours, really fast, on the run, before the sit-in based on the Forum voor Anarchisme dossier on Palestine which can be found [https://forumvooranarchisme.nl/dossier/palestijn here]. 30 or so copies were printed and distributed during the action. A copy of the zine can be downloaded [https://vvvvvvaria.org/~decentral1se/free-palestine-reader.pdf here]. The zine is mostly in Dutch. Category:Octomode") | |||
| N 20:17 | A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers diffhist +1,415 Manetta talk contribs (Created page with "600px ''A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers'' (ATNOFS) publication, collectively made with Wendy Van Wynsberghe, Vlad Dobrițoiu, Teo Săvoiu, Spideralex, Sergiu Nisioi, Roel Roscam Abbing, Reni Hofmüller, ooooo, Nina Bothof, Martino Morandi, Marloes de Valk, Mara Karagianni, Maneta Berends, Lídia Pereira, Julia Bande, Femke Snelting, elodie Mugrefya, Donatella Portoghese, Danae Tapia, Cristina Cochior, Azahara Cerezo, Aymeric Mansoux, A...") | ||||
| N 20:15 | Hosting with diffhist +515 Manetta talk contribs (Created page with "600px ''Hosting with'' is a zine capturing a conversation at AMRO22 in Linz around art servers and hosting practices. Transcribed/layout/editing by Artemis Gryllaki, Manetta Berends and Angeliki Diakrousi. Self-published by Varia in July, 2023. https://vvvvvvaria.org/archive/2023-03-Hosting-with-others/ https://cc.vvvvvvaria.org/octomode/hosting-with-the-others/ (behind a passwd) https://art-meets.radical-openness.org/program/hosting...") | ||||
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N 20:12 | SomeTimes 2 changes history +705 [Manetta (2×)] | |||
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20:12 (cur | prev) +682 Manetta talk contribs (Created page with "SomeTimes is the (ir)regular printed newsletter of Varia. ==SomeTimes #1== 600px 600px April 2022 Sometimes/Af en toe #1 is made in resonant publishing mode with octomode, [https://multi.vvvvvvaria.org/ multifeeder] and multiple RSS feeds. Initial layout and infrastructure by Simon Browne & Manetta Berends, to be versioned in the following editions. https://varia.zone/en/sometimes-af-en-toe.html + http...") | |||
| N 20:09 | The title is diffhist +1,597 Manetta talk contribs (Created page with "600px Collectively produced during the ''Computational writing & publishing talk/workshop''. On 21 April, 13.00-18.00, NICA/RMeS Workshop with Geoff Cox and Winnie Soon, at Utrecht University, hosted by David Gauthier. The procedural qualities of both writing and coding lend themselves to the sharing of resources, collective actions, and social exchange through the use of experimental publishing tools such as wiki-...") | ||||
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N 20:07 | Bulgarian antifascist bulletin 2 changes history +933 [Manetta (2×)] | |||
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20:06 (cur | prev) +910 Manetta talk contribs (Created page with "600px In July 2023 an email landed in the Varia inbox with a request to use octomode to produce an antifascist bulletin in an Bulgarian context: ''"I came by your space last week.. I am writing to ask for permission to use Octomode, which Danny told me about. It came up in the context of me being involved in the production of an Anti-fascist bulletin from Bulgaria. The idea is to gather short inputs every few months f...") | |||
| N 12:24 | Installing octomode diffhist +10,372 Manetta talk contribs (Created page with "''Installation notes for octomode.'' ==How to install octomode?== The code we use + an installation guide can be found here: https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/CC/octomode A more expanded installation guide can be found below, written in the context of rosa in March 2022: https://hub.vvvvvvaria.org/rosa/ ===Step 1: Download the octomode code from the Varia git=== First go to the location where you want to install octomode. This should be outside of the public webserver...") | ||||
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.