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I absolutely love wiki walking through random obscure fan wikis, but I hate how most are on Fandom.

I think a federated wiki solution makes sense. I could see it as an evolution of the interwiki concept.

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[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 74 points 3 days ago (5 children)
[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 46 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Thanks for linking my project. Im happy to answer questions about it. Also here you can find the git repo.

[–] early_riser@lemmy.radio 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This looks interesting.

Seems like it's still early days yet, but are there plans to add things like namespaces and categories?

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 days ago

For now my focus is to make it federate with Lemmy and the rest of the Fediverse. But you're welcome to open an issue for that kind of feature.

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This looks very awesome. So it also functions as a redundant wiki?

Wikipedia should use it. Then others can create their own wikis, which keep a version of articles of Wikipedia.

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Its similar to Lemmy in many ways, so like Lemmy posts are redundantly mirrored across instances, the same is true for Ibis articles.

Getting Wikipedia federated would be great, but it will take a long time for Ibis to be ready for that scale.

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can ibis import a full Wikipedia backup?

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

There is an API so you could write a script to import any kind of data.

[–] MxRemy@piefed.social 11 points 3 days ago

It wouod be amazing to see Ibis take off and pick up more developers

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 days ago

This is the answer.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Seems like there is a federated solution for everything lol

There's also a list of ActivityPub software on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub#Software_using_ActivityPub

[–] lgsp@feddit.it 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Nah... Missing IMHO:

  • Strava like
  • IMDB like
  • stackoverflow like
  • google maps review like
[–] poesty@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Strava like: FitTrackee and Endurain are planning to implement ActivityPub so yah there's gonna to be one IMDB like: NeoDB and LibRate Not sure about the rest

[–] lgsp@feddit.it 0 points 2 days ago

thank you! I will keep an eye on those

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Also:

  • gift economy/trading platform (e.g. like freecycle)
  • buying/selling (e.g. like ebay)
  • local community/bioregionalism networks (e.g. what nextdoor should be)

These seem kind of ideal for a federated network, IMO.

I actually think Lemmy would be a pretty decent format for something stackoverflow like - just maybe needs to UI tweaks to minimise the visual space that replies take up, plus maybe answered post flair

[–] mapto@feddit.bg 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
[–] naught101@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thanks, I saw that flohmakrt link in another comment too. Excellent!

Does that yrpri site work well?

[–] mapto@feddit.bg 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

It's been around for many years now and famously was used in the consultations for the constitution of Iceland. We also used it in Bulgaria back in 2013 and had a community of more than 3000 users, but it lost traction due to being ignored by politicians and controversial debates.

You can see more recent activity on https://www.citizens.is/ , particularly the impact and news sections.

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

I wonder if they would be interested in implementing ActivityPub?