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Deep dive into Foswiki focused on its deltas from TWiki (not the shared lineage): the pluggable Foswiki::Store backend (RcsWrap/RcsLite/PlainFile) behind a versioned interface via Foswiki::Meta, the OO/MVC core rewrite, Foswiki::Func + registerTagHandler, DataForms + MetaDataPlugin multi-record, and WysiwygPlugin TML<->HTML round-trip. The store abstraction is logged as prior art for shard-wiki's own adapter contract (SHARD-WP-0002). Catalog (now 43 UCs): - UC-42 read/write a non-Markdown shard via lossless syntax translation (Markdown-first for prose; Foswiki WysiwygPlugin is proof) - UC-43 tolerate a shard's storage-backend swap (RCS<->PlainFile) under a stable identity - enrich UC-39 (multi-record metadata) and UC-40 (PlainFile direct-attach) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# UseCaseCatalog
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Status: **draft** · Date: 2026-06-08 · Updated: 2026-06-13
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Promoted from `research/260608-c2-wiki-origins/`,
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`research/260608-yawex-prior-art/`, `research/260608-federation-concepts/`,
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`research/260608-wikiengines-overview/`, `research/260613-xwiki-deep-dive/`,
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`research/260613-twiki-deep-dive/`, and `research/260613-foswiki-deep-dive/`.
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See InfoTechPrimers on coulomb.social for use-case catalog conventions.
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## Conventions
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Each use case lists:
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- **Actor** — who initiates the action
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- **Goal** — observable outcome
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- **Source** — research lineage (`c2`, `yawex`, `federation`, `wikiengines`, `intent`, or combined)
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- **Notes** — shard-wiki-specific constraints or open design points
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Priority hints: **MVP** = likely early value; **Later** = important but not first slice.
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---
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## A. Information space and federation
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*shard-wiki orchestration scenarios (INTENT + yawex federation seeds).*
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### UC-01 — Standalone open wiki (L0)
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**Actor:** Anonymous contributor
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**Goal:** Read and write wiki pages with full history and no external dependencies.
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**Source:** intent, c2
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**Notes:** Ward Cunningham / c2-style open mode (`WhyWikiWorks`). Recovery via Git
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history, not gatekeeping. Aligns with L0 in `spec/ArchitectureBlueprint.md`.
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**Priority:** MVP
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### UC-02 — Attach a shard to an information space
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**Actor:** Maintainer
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**Goal:** Attach a repository, directory, or other backend as a shard of a root entity.
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**Source:** intent, yawex
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**Notes:** yawex `Conf::TestWiki / FriendsWiki` foreshadows multiple roots/shards.
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Preserve shard sovereignty and adapter capability profile.
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**Priority:** MVP
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### UC-03 — Project a remote shard page locally
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**Actor:** Reader
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**Goal:** View a page from a remote or read-only shard as a local projection with
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provenance and freshness visible.
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**Source:** intent, yawex
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**Notes:** yawex `VIRTUAL` state = projection/cache. Lazy projection; no silent
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mutation.
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**Priority:** Later
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### UC-04 — Overlay edit on read-only shard
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**Actor:** Author
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**Goal:** Propose changes to a remote/read-only page as overlay, draft, or patch
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before destructive apply.
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**Source:** intent, yawex
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**Notes:** yawex append/comment workflow; c2 ThreadMode → refactor pattern.
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Overlay-before-mutation principle.
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**Priority:** Later
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### UC-05 — Union derived views
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**Actor:** Reader
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**Goal:** Navigate BackLinks, RecentChanges, AllPages, SiteMap, or Search across
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all attached shards as a federated graph.
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**Source:** intent, c2, yawex
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**Notes:** Present on both c2 (community nerve center) and yawex core pages.
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BackLinks over the union link-graph is the strongest core candidate; per-shard
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vs union scope remains open (see UC-19–UC-21).
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**Priority:** Later
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### UC-06 — Authenticated team wiki (L2+)
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**Actor:** Authenticated principal
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**Goal:** Read and write under role-based authorization with identity from an
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external provider.
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**Source:** intent, yawex
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**Notes:** yawex htpasswd + per-topic `AccessControl` is prior art only;
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shard-wiki delegates authentication, owns authorization
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(`spec/ArchitectureBlueprint.md`). yawex's model traces to **TWiki's per-topic
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`ALLOW/DENY TOPICVIEW/CHANGE/RENAME`** — the origin reference for shard-wiki's
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optional per-page ACL at L4 (`research/260613-twiki-deep-dive/findings.md` §4).
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**Priority:** Later
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### UC-07 — Detect and reconcile cross-shard divergence
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**Actor:** Maintainer
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**Goal:** Identify when equivalent pages in different shards have diverged and
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reconcile them under explicit policy.
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**Source:** intent
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**Notes:** Union without erasure — conflicts visible, not hidden. Complements
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UC-27 (multi-version view) and SHARD-WP-0002 consensus-policy task.
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**Priority:** Later
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### UC-26 — Fork page from remote shard into writable shard
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**Actor:** Author
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**Goal:** Copy a page from a remote or read-only shard into a local writable
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shard for independent editing, with provenance preserved.
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**Source:** federation, intent
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**Notes:** Fedwiki fork primitive. shard-wiki may realize as import, overlay
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seed, or writable copy per policy — distinct from UC-04 (overlay without copy)
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and UC-03 (projection only). Fork vs overlay vs import decided in
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`SHARD-WP-0002`.
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**Priority:** Later
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### UC-27 — View multiple versions of equivalent page
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**Actor:** Reader
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**Goal:** See coexisting versions of the same topic from different shards or
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authors without collapsing them into one canonical page.
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**Source:** federation, intent
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**Notes:** Fedwiki "chorus of voices"; INTENT union without erasure. Equivalent-
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page identity model TBD (`SHARD-WP-0002`). Links UC-07 divergence detection.
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**Priority:** Later
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### UC-28 — Carry forward pages from closed or archived shard
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**Actor:** Maintainer or author
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**Goal:** Selectively import or re-project valuable pages from an archived,
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read-only, or retired shard into an active information space.
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**Source:** federation
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**Notes:** Caulfield bounded conversation / reverse bit-rot. Optional space
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lifecycle policy. Complements UC-02 attach and UC-26 fork at scale.
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**Priority:** Later
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### UC-29 — Remix with portable attribution
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**Actor:** Author
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**Goal:** Reuse content across shards or spaces with attribution and edit
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history intact, without manual copy-paste.
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**Source:** federation, intent
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**Notes:** Fedwiki journal travels with page; shard-wiki coordination journal +
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per-shard history. Frictionless reuse principle (~15s not ~15min).
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**Priority:** Later
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### UC-30 — Time-bounded collaboration space
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**Actor:** Facilitator
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**Goal:** Run a collaboration period on a dedicated information space or shard
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subset, then archive it while allowing selective carry-forward.
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**Source:** federation
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**Notes:** Fedwiki "happening"; lifecycle is configurable policy, not a hard-
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coded core behavior. Relates to UC-28.
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**Priority:** Later
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### UC-31 — Subscribe to remote shard changes
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**Actor:** Maintainer or reader
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**Goal:** Receive timely notice when pages change on attached remote shards,
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triggering projection refresh or reconciliation review.
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**Source:** federation, intent
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**Notes:** ikiwiki pinger/pingee; ActivityPub Create/Update; polling fallback.
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Transport is adapter concern; freshness surfaced in UC-24. XWiki deep dive adds a
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concrete push transport: an engine event bus (`ObservationManager`
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`DocumentUpdatedEvent`) consumed by a listener, vs polling REST history
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(`research/260613-xwiki-deep-dive/findings.md` §2.5, §8 Q4).
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**Priority:** Later
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### UC-32 — Transclude remote span with live freshness
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**Actor:** Author or reader
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**Goal:** Embed a portion of a remote page inline with visible origin and
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refreshable content.
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**Source:** federation, intent
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**Notes:** Xanadu transclusion pattern; stronger than UC-03 whole-page
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projection. Provenance and staleness must be explicit.
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**Priority:** Later
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### UC-33 — Git-branch an information space
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**Actor:** Maintainer
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**Goal:** Fork the coordination journal and attached shard configuration into a
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divergent information space without destroying the original.
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**Source:** federation, intent
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**Notes:** ikiwiki wiki-branch pattern; Git-backed coordination per INTENT.
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Space-level fork — distinct from UC-26 page-level fork.
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**Priority:** Later
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### UC-34 — Attach a structured or semantic shard without lossy flattening
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**Actor:** Maintainer
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**Goal:** Attach an engine whose pages carry structured or queryable data beyond
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Markdown (Semantic MediaWiki annotations, XWiki objects/forms) and project it
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without silently discarding the structure.
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**Source:** wikiengines, intent
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**Notes:** Engine scan shows "wiki page" spans flat Markdown to queryable
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knowledge objects. Markdown-first must **degrade gracefully**, not flatten:
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needs a passthrough / sidecar-metadata / provenance escape hatch. Page-model
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question deferred to `SHARD-WP-0002` (findings §6 Q1). Distinct from UC-02
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(assumes Markdown-shaped pages). XWiki is the concrete exemplar: pages carry typed
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XObjects against an XClass schema (`research/260613-xwiki-deep-dive/findings.md`
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§2.3); UC-39 covers the extreme where the page is *only* structure. TWiki shows the
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**git-friendly** variant: TWiki Forms store fields as `%META:FIELD%` *inside the
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topic text file*, so structure is diffable rather than locked in a DB
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(`research/260613-twiki-deep-dive/findings.md` §2.3).
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**Priority:** Later
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### UC-35 — Attach a shard with coarse write granularity
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**Actor:** Maintainer
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**Goal:** Attach a backend whose unit of write is not the page — a single-file
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wiki (TiddlyWiki) or a whole-space/DB-transaction engine — and have shard-wiki
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respect that granularity instead of assuming per-page writes.
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**Source:** wikiengines, intent
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**Notes:** Capability-aware adapters: the **capability profile must encode write
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granularity** (per-page / per-file / per-space / append-only). Overlay and
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patch flows must adapt (findings §5 #1). Affects conflict scope and locking.
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**Priority:** Later
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### UC-36 — Supply a git-addressable history to an internal-history engine
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**Actor:** Maintainer
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**Goal:** Attach an engine whose revisions live only in its own database
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(Confluence, MediaWiki) and give the information space a portable, git-backed
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history it otherwise lacks.
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**Source:** wikiengines, intent
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**Notes:** Many engines expose revisions but not portable, git-style history.
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The **coordination journal** supplies the Git-addressable layer (INTENT). Open:
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is the journal authoritative or a mirror reconciled back to the engine
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(findings §6 Q3)? Complements UC-07 divergence and UC-24 provenance. XWiki's
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internal RCS table (`xwikircs`) is a concrete instance
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(`research/260613-xwiki-deep-dive/findings.md` §2.4). This UC is *supplementation*
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(the engine's past is DB-locked); where history is already in an open file format
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(TWiki RCS `.txt,v`) it can instead be **imported** — see UC-41.
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**Priority:** Later
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### UC-37 — Attach a static engine export as a read-only backup shard
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**Actor:** Maintainer
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**Goal:** Attach a one-shot export with no live origin — a MediaWiki XML dump, an
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HTML mirror, or an archived/read-only C2 — as a read-only cache/backup/patch
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target.
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**Source:** wikiengines, intent
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**Notes:** Graceful degradation — a frozen export is still a legitimate
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participant. Distinct from UC-03 (live projection with a reachable origin) and
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UC-28 (carry pages *forward* into a new space); here the dump itself is the
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shard. Read-only mode in `spec/ArchitectureBlueprint.md`.
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**Priority:** Later
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### UC-38 — Make a wiki engine federation-capable via its native extension API
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**Actor:** Engine developer / integrator
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**Goal:** Turn an existing wiki engine into a federation participant by hosting a
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shard-wiki adapter *inside* the engine through its own extension interface, rather
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than scraping it from outside.
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**Source:** wikiengines, intent
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**Notes:** Realizes INTENT *composable integration* — first UC for the **engine-side**
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direction (others attach engines from outside). XWiki is the proof case: its
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component model (`@Component` + role hint) can replace auth/storage/rights, its
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REST API and `ObservationManager` give transport + change events, and UIX adds
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surfacing — enough to host a high-fidelity adapter
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(`research/260613-xwiki-deep-dive/findings.md` §3). Trade-off vs an external REST
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adapter (needs deploy access, higher fidelity) is open (findings §8 Q3).
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Generalizes beyond XWiki: TWiki's plugin handler API (`beforeSaveHandler`,
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`afterRenameHandler`, REST handlers) is an equivalent host surface
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(`research/260613-twiki-deep-dive/findings.md` §3).
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**Priority:** Later
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### UC-39 — Attach a wiki-as-application-platform shard (pages as typed records)
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**Actor:** Maintainer
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**Goal:** Attach an engine where pages are structured records or forms with little
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or no prose body (XWiki AppWithinMinutes apps / XObjects), and represent them in the
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union without inventing a fake Markdown body.
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**Source:** wikiengines, intent
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**Notes:** The extreme of UC-34 — not *annotations on prose* but **bodiless
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structured pages**. Forces the question: does the page model require a Markdown body,
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or can a page be purely typed data (`research/260613-xwiki-deep-dive/findings.md`
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§8 Q2)? Affects union views, diff, and search. Deferred to `SHARD-WP-0002`.
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Foswiki shows a middle point: MetaDataPlugin stores **multiple** structured records
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per topic, still as `%META%` in text (`research/260613-foswiki-deep-dive/findings.md`
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§4) — the page model must allow N typed records, not one form.
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**Priority:** Later
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### UC-40 — Attach a file-backed engine's on-disk store directly
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**Actor:** Maintainer
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**Goal:** Attach a live engine whose content is plain files on disk — TWiki
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`data/<Web>/<Topic>.txt`, DokuWiki pages, a Gollum/ikiwiki repo — by reading its
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**backing store directly** as a folder shard, instead of (or alongside) going
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through its runtime API.
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**Source:** wikiengines, intent
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**Notes:** One backend, **two attachment paths** with different fidelity/consistency:
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the on-disk store (offline-capable, git-native for repo-backed engines, but risks
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reading inconsistent state under a running engine) vs the runtime API (consistent,
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respects engine logic, but requires the engine up). Capability profile must express
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the choice (`research/260613-twiki-deep-dive/findings.md` §5–§6, §8 Q1). Distinct
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from UC-37 (no live origin) and broader than UC-02's generic attach. Foswiki's
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**PlainFile** store (timestamped whole-version copies, no RCS) is a cleaner
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direct-attach target than RCS diffs (`research/260613-foswiki-deep-dive/findings.md`
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§2.2).
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**Priority:** Later
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### UC-41 — Import an engine's native file history into the coordination journal
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**Actor:** Maintainer
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**Goal:** When an engine already keeps history in an open file format (TWiki/yawex
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RCS `.txt,v`), **import that history** into the Git-backed coordination journal
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preserving authorship and timestamps — not just start a fresh journal going forward.
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**Source:** wikiengines, intent
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**Notes:** History *migration with fidelity*, distinct from UC-36 *supplementation*
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(where the engine's past is locked in a DB and the journal can only begin now). Open:
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is the imported history authoritative or a one-time backfill
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(`research/260613-twiki-deep-dive/findings.md` §8 Q2)? Strengthens recoverability
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(INTENT *History as the safety net*).
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**Priority:** Later
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### UC-42 — Read and write a non-Markdown shard via lossless syntax translation
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**Actor:** Author or maintainer
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**Goal:** Attach a shard whose native markup is not Markdown (TWiki/Foswiki TML,
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XWiki syntax) and read it into the Markdown-first model — and write Markdown overlays
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back — through **bidirectional, lossless syntax translation**, instead of treating it
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as read-only.
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**Source:** wikiengines, intent
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**Notes:** Realizes *Markdown-first, backend-neutral* for **prose** (UC-34/39 cover
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*structure*). Feasibility proven by Foswiki's **WysiwygPlugin** (TML→HTML for editing,
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HTML→TML losslessly on save) (`research/260613-foswiki-deep-dive/findings.md` §5).
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Open: is round-trip lossless enough, or must overlays be stored in the shard's native
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syntax to be safe (findings §9 Q2)? Without this, non-Markdown shards degrade to
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read-only (UC-03) — a graceful-degradation floor, not the goal.
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**Priority:** Later
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### UC-43 — Tolerate a shard's storage-backend swap without losing identity
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**Actor:** Maintainer
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**Goal:** Keep a shard attached, with its provenance and history intact, when its
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underlying storage backend changes — e.g. a Foswiki wiki migrated RCS→PlainFile, or a
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folder shard promoted into Git.
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**Source:** wikiengines, intent
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**Notes:** Foswiki proves backends are swappable under a stable identity via its
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versioned `Foswiki::Store` interface (`research/260613-foswiki-deep-dive/findings.md`
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§2). shard-wiki orchestration robustness: a shard's identity/attachment is **not** its
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storage format. Open: detect the swap and preserve history across it (findings §9 Q3).
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Relates to UC-40 (attach path) and UC-41 (history import) but is about *change under a
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live attachment*, not initial attach.
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**Priority:** Later
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---
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## B. Knowledge work and collaboration
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*Patterns from c2 social conventions and yawex authoring workflows.*
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### UC-08 — Quick idea capture
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**Actor:** Contributor
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**Goal:** Capture a thought as a page and link to related pages, including ones
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that do not exist yet.
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**Source:** c2
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**Notes:** c2 *incremental* and *open* design principles; Wiki = "quick web."
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Markdown-first wikilink/red-link extension (yawex TRANSFORM) applies.
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**Priority:** MVP
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### UC-09 — Sandbox first edit
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**Actor:** New contributor
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**Goal:** Learn editing mechanics in a safe sandbox without affecting production
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pages.
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**Source:** c2
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**Notes:** c2 `WikiWikiSandbox`, `WelcomeVisitors` onboarding path.
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**Priority:** MVP
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### UC-10 — Discussion to consensus document
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**Actor:** Contributor (often acting as WikiMaster)
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**Goal:** Refine a ThreadMode conversation into an unsigned DocumentMode page
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that reflects community consensus.
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**Source:** c2
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**Notes:** ADD / EDIT / SPLIT / CAPTURE thread contributions; prefer rewrite
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over stacked clarifications (`DocumentMode`, `GoodStyle`). Mechanism in core
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vs reference UI TBD.
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**Priority:** Later
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### UC-11 — Distill experience into reusable knowledge
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**Actor:** Practitioner
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**Goal:** Turn field notes, threads, or project experience into durable,
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reusable artifacts (patterns, methods, checklists).
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**Source:** c2, yawex
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**Notes:** c2 `PatternMode`, PPR "People, Projects & Patterns"; yawex blueprint
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pages (UC-15). Not an encyclopedia (`WikiIsNotWikipedia`).
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**Priority:** Later
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### UC-12 — Practitioner field notes
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**Actor:** Contributor
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**Goal:** Maintain informal, subjective programming and project history that is
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explicitly work-in-progress.
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**Source:** c2
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**Notes:** `InformalHistoryOfProgrammingIdeas`, `WorkInProgress`. Complements
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UC-11; distinct from reference-grade documentation in `docs/` or `spec/`.
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**Priority:** MVP
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### UC-13 — Community presence
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**Actor:** Visitor
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**Goal:** Signal participation and discover who is active in the information
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space.
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**Source:** c2
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**Notes:** c2 `RecentVisitors`, `PeopleIndex`. Optional attribution at L1+
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(`ArchitectureBlueprint` L1 Attributed mode).
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**Priority:** Later
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### UC-14 — Self-curating knowledge base
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**Actor:** Community
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**Goal:** Improve collective quality through open editing, refactoring, and
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convergent deduplication rather than gatekeeping.
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**Source:** c2
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**Notes:** `WhyWikiWorks`, `RefactorDontDelete`, `Convergent` design principle.
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shard-wiki adds Git history as structural safety net beyond social norms.
|
||
**Priority:** MVP
|
||
|
||
### UC-15 — Create page from blueprint
|
||
|
||
**Actor:** Author
|
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**Goal:** Instantiate a new page or topic structure from a template, duplicating
|
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an agreed layout or subtree.
|
||
**Source:** yawex
|
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**Notes:** yawex blueprint pages. Distinct from UC-08 (blank capture) and UC-10
|
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(refactoring existing discussion).
|
||
**Priority:** Later
|
||
|
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### UC-16 — Append or comment without full edit
|
||
|
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**Actor:** Author
|
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**Goal:** Add material to a page without replacing the entire body — lightweight
|
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patch, comment, or append workflow.
|
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**Source:** yawex, c2
|
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**Notes:** yawex append/comment; c2 ThreadMode ADD. Maps to overlay model (UC-04)
|
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for read-only/remote shards; direct append where adapter allows.
|
||
**Priority:** Later
|
||
|
||
---
|
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|
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## C. Discovery and navigation
|
||
|
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*Derived views and browse patterns from c2 and yawex.*
|
||
|
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### UC-17 — Change radar
|
||
|
||
**Actor:** Reader or maintainer
|
||
**Goal:** See what changed recently across pages and who changed it.
|
||
**Source:** c2, yawex
|
||
**Notes:** c2 `RecentChanges`, `QuickChanges`, `RecentChangesJunkie`; yawex
|
||
`RecentChanges` core page. Union scope in UC-05; this UC covers the user need
|
||
at any scope.
|
||
**Priority:** MVP
|
||
|
||
### UC-18 — BackLinks navigation
|
||
|
||
**Actor:** Reader
|
||
**Goal:** Find pages that link to the current page.
|
||
**Source:** c2, yawex
|
||
**Notes:** Link-graph query. Strong core candidate for federated union (UC-05).
|
||
**Priority:** Later
|
||
|
||
### UC-19 — All pages and site map browse
|
||
|
||
**Actor:** Reader
|
||
**Goal:** Survey the full page inventory or hierarchical site structure.
|
||
**Source:** c2, yawex
|
||
**Notes:** yawex `AllPages`, `SiteMap` core pages; c2 `WikiList`, categories,
|
||
`RoadMaps`. Namespace/path model affects presentation (UC-22).
|
||
**Priority:** Later
|
||
|
||
### UC-20 — Full-text search
|
||
|
||
**Actor:** Reader
|
||
**Goal:** Find pages by content keyword or phrase.
|
||
**Source:** c2, yawex
|
||
**Notes:** yawex `SearchPage`; c2 `FindPage`, `SearchHelper`. Core vs
|
||
adapter-provided indexing TBD.
|
||
**Priority:** Later
|
||
|
||
### UC-21 — Serendipitous browse
|
||
|
||
**Actor:** Reader
|
||
**Goal:** Discover unexpected relevant pages without a specific search target.
|
||
**Source:** c2
|
||
**Notes:** `RandomPages`, `VisualTour`, `LikePages`, `StartingPoints`.
|
||
**Priority:** Later
|
||
|
||
### UC-22 — Namespace and path navigation
|
||
|
||
**Actor:** Reader or author
|
||
**Goal:** Resolve and navigate pages using relative (`../`), absolute (`/`), and
|
||
normalized paths within a topic hierarchy.
|
||
**Source:** yawex
|
||
**Notes:** yawex topics-as-directories; page-resolution state space is
|
||
inspiration only for federation design (not inherited as API).
|
||
**Priority:** Later
|
||
|
||
### UC-23 — Soft topic creation via red link
|
||
|
||
**Actor:** Author
|
||
**Goal:** Follow a link to a nonexistent page and create it on first write.
|
||
**Source:** c2, yawex
|
||
**Notes:** c2 `PageName?`; yawex red-`?` link semantics. TRANSFORM to
|
||
CommonMark wikilink + red-link extension.
|
||
**Priority:** MVP
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
## D. Provenance and page metadata
|
||
|
||
*yawex `Page::info` and c2 attribution norms.*
|
||
|
||
### UC-24 — Inspect page provenance
|
||
|
||
**Actor:** Reader
|
||
**Goal:** See source shard, modification time, freshness, editor attribution,
|
||
edit count, and whether the page has local overlays or diverges elsewhere.
|
||
**Source:** yawex, c2, intent
|
||
**Notes:** yawex `Page::info`; c2 optional `UserName` signing. INTENT explicit
|
||
provenance principle.
|
||
**Priority:** Later
|
||
|
||
### UC-25 — Collaborative glossary and precise naming
|
||
|
||
**Actor:** Community
|
||
**Goal:** Build a shared vocabulary of precise page titles and linked terms that
|
||
reduce ambiguity across the information space.
|
||
**Source:** c2, yawex
|
||
**Notes:** c2 flat namespace + `WikiWord` / `Precise` principle; yawex
|
||
CamelCase and `[[free links]]`. Markdown-first link semantics TBD.
|
||
**Priority:** Later
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
## Traceability
|
||
|
||
| UC | c2 research | yawex research | federation research | wikiengines research | INTENT |
|
||
|----|-------------|----------------|---------------------|----------------------|--------|
|
||
| UC-01 | ✓ | | | | ✓ |
|
||
| UC-02 | | ✓ | | | ✓ |
|
||
| UC-03 | | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ |
|
||
| UC-04 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ |
|
||
| UC-05 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ |
|
||
| UC-06 | | ✓ | | | ✓ |
|
||
| UC-07 | | | ✓ | | ✓ |
|
||
| UC-26 | | | ✓ | | ✓ |
|
||
| UC-27 | | | ✓ | | ✓ |
|
||
| UC-28 | | | ✓ | | |
|
||
| UC-29 | | | ✓ | | ✓ |
|
||
| UC-30 | | | ✓ | | |
|
||
| UC-31 | | | ✓ | | ✓ |
|
||
| UC-32 | | | ✓ | | ✓ |
|
||
| UC-33 | | | ✓ | | ✓ |
|
||
| UC-34 | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
|
||
| UC-35 | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
|
||
| UC-36 | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
|
||
| UC-37 | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
|
||
| UC-38 | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
|
||
| UC-39 | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
|
||
| UC-40 | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
|
||
| UC-41 | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
|
||
| UC-42 | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
|
||
| UC-43 | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
|
||
| UC-08 | ✓ | | |
|
||
| UC-09 | ✓ | | |
|
||
| UC-10 | ✓ | | |
|
||
| UC-11 | ✓ | ✓ | |
|
||
| UC-12 | ✓ | | |
|
||
| UC-13 | ✓ | | |
|
||
| UC-14 | ✓ | | ✓ |
|
||
| UC-15 | | ✓ | |
|
||
| UC-16 | ✓ | ✓ | |
|
||
| UC-17 | ✓ | ✓ | |
|
||
| UC-18 | ✓ | ✓ | |
|
||
| UC-19 | ✓ | ✓ | |
|
||
| UC-20 | ✓ | ✓ | |
|
||
| UC-21 | ✓ | | |
|
||
| UC-22 | | ✓ | |
|
||
| UC-23 | ✓ | ✓ | |
|
||
| UC-24 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
|
||
| UC-25 | ✓ | ✓ | |
|
||
|
||
### c2 synthesis mapping
|
||
|
||
| Research ID | Catalog UC |
|
||
|-------------|------------|
|
||
| UC-C2-01 Quick idea capture | UC-08 |
|
||
| UC-C2-02 Collaborative glossary | UC-25 |
|
||
| UC-C2-03 Discussion → consensus doc | UC-10 |
|
||
| UC-C2-04 Pattern mining | UC-11 |
|
||
| UC-C2-05 Community guest book | UC-13 |
|
||
| UC-C2-06 Change radar | UC-17 |
|
||
| UC-C2-07 Self-curating knowledge base | UC-14 |
|
||
| UC-C2-08 Sandbox learning | UC-09 |
|
||
| UC-C2-09 Serendipitous browse | UC-21 |
|
||
| UC-C2-10 Practitioner field notes | UC-12 |
|
||
| UC-C2-11 Team memory for methods | UC-11, UC-12 |
|
||
| UC-C2-12 Soft creation of missing topics | UC-23 |
|
||
|
||
### yawex KEEP mapping
|
||
|
||
| yawex KEEP item | Catalog UC |
|
||
|-----------------|------------|
|
||
| Derived views (BackLinks, RecentChanges, AllPages, SiteMap, Search) | UC-05, UC-17–UC-20 |
|
||
| Topic = namespace hierarchy | UC-22 |
|
||
| Append/comment workflow | UC-04, UC-16 |
|
||
| Blueprint pages | UC-15 |
|
||
| Provenance hooks | UC-24 |
|
||
| Page classes (local/global/virtual) | UC-02, UC-03 (shard roles) |
|
||
| Wikilink / red-link semantics | UC-08, UC-23, UC-25 |
|
||
|
||
### federation research mapping
|
||
|
||
| Research ID (findings §7) | Catalog UC |
|
||
|---------------------------|------------|
|
||
| UC-FED-01 Fork page from remote shard | UC-26 |
|
||
| UC-FED-02 View multiple versions of equivalent page | UC-27 |
|
||
| UC-FED-03 Carry forward from closed/archived shard | UC-28 |
|
||
| UC-FED-04 Remix with portable attribution | UC-29 |
|
||
| UC-FED-05 Time-bounded collaboration space | UC-30 |
|
||
| UC-FED-06 Subscribe to remote shard changes | UC-31 |
|
||
| UC-FED-07 Transclude remote span | UC-32 |
|
||
| UC-FED-08 Git-branch information space | UC-33 |
|
||
|
||
### wikiengines mapping
|
||
|
||
| Engine-landscape finding | Catalog UC |
|
||
|--------------------------|------------|
|
||
| Structured/semantic engines (Semantic MediaWiki, XWiki) — pages as queryable objects | UC-34 |
|
||
| Coarse write granularity (TiddlyWiki single-file; whole-space DB writes) | UC-35 |
|
||
| Internal-only revision history (Confluence, MediaWiki) needs portable git history | UC-36 |
|
||
| Static exports / read-only archives (MediaWiki XML dump, archived C2, HTML mirror) | UC-37 |
|
||
| Engine hosts adapter via native extension API (XWiki components/REST/UIX) | UC-38 |
|
||
| Wiki-as-application-platform, bodiless typed pages (XWiki AppWithinMinutes/XObjects) | UC-39 |
|
||
| Attach a file-backed engine's on-disk store directly (TWiki data dir, DokuWiki) | UC-40 |
|
||
| Import an engine's native file history (TWiki RCS `.txt,v`) into the journal | UC-41 |
|
||
| Lossless syntax translation for a non-Markdown shard (Foswiki WysiwygPlugin TML↔HTML) | UC-42 |
|
||
| Tolerate a shard's storage-backend swap (Foswiki RCS↔PlainFile) under stable identity | UC-43 |
|
||
|
||
Note: the landscape scan mostly **reinforced** existing UCs and the L0→L4 ladder
|
||
rather than adding scenarios — its primary yield is adapter-contract constraints
|
||
(`research/260608-wikiengines-overview/findings.md` §3, §5), tracked in
|
||
`workplans/SHARD-WP-0002-federation-architecture.md`. UC-34–UC-37 are the
|
||
attachment scenarios it surfaced. UC-38–UC-39 come from the **XWiki deep dive**
|
||
(`research/260613-xwiki-deep-dive/findings.md` §7); UC-40–UC-41 from the **TWiki
|
||
deep dive** (`research/260613-twiki-deep-dive/findings.md` §7), which also enriched
|
||
UC-06 (TWiki per-topic ACL → yawex), UC-34 (file-embedded `%META%`), UC-36 (RCS vs
|
||
DB history), and UC-38 (TWiki plugin handlers as an adapter host). UC-42–UC-43 come
|
||
from the **Foswiki deep dive** (`research/260613-foswiki-deep-dive/findings.md` §8),
|
||
which also enriched UC-39 (MetaDataPlugin multi-record), UC-40 (PlainFile store), and
|
||
logged the `Foswiki::Store` versioned interface as **adapter-contract prior art** for
|
||
`SHARD-WP-0002` (no UC — architecture).
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
## Open questions
|
||
|
||
1. Which UC items are **MVP for L0 standalone** vs requiring federation or L2+?
|
||
2. Which derived views (UC-05, UC-17–UC-20) are **core orchestrator** vs
|
||
**adapter-provided**?
|
||
3. Do c2 collaboration patterns (UC-10, UC-14) belong in **core**, **reference
|
||
UI**, or **`wiki/` social convention** only?
|
||
4. Should UC-12 and `WikiIsNotWikipedia` be elevated into
|
||
`ProductRequirementsDocument.md` as explicit product identity?
|
||
5. Which federation UCs (UC-26–UC-33) are **MVP** vs deferred until
|
||
`SHARD-WP-0002` architecture decisions land?
|
||
6. Does UC-32 (transclusion) belong in core orchestrator or adapter/UI layer? |