Is there some application like a wiki in the fediverse? A place to gather and edit information together about a specific topic.
Maybe I don’t see the value in federation purely for federation’s sake, since things like Wikipedia still accept edits from all users, aren’t charging for usage (yet), etc.
But, I’d love to make sure that Wikipedia sticks around for a while, so while I’m a monthly donor, I’d also love to hear ideas for distributing it to prevent a single point of failure. To my feeble understanding, this sounds like a perfect use for Blockchain, but correct me if I’m wrong.
Also, first Lemmy comment, yay!
Wikipedia is a great place for general knowledge and I don’t wanna change that. What I’m looking for is a way to create wiki for a very specific topic, which could be attached to a lemmy community about that topic.
For example having a lemmy community about a certain programming language with a wiki containing documentation about that programming language. This isn’t something you’d put into Wikipedia.
If a federated wiki could replace fandom.com I would be so happy. That site is a nightmare of ads on mobile and needs to be replaced.
Ah, I see. Thanks for entertaining my question.
I think my only concern about federating is the ability to de-federate. I like that I don’t have to see racism, homophobia, etc. but I’d hate to see any further politicization around “facts”, and I worry that federation could lead to different versions of truth.
Probably less of a concern on Go vs. Rust. Cheers!
Yes, I’m thinking more of a place to collect technical documentation / tutorials. No body wants to create a place of “alternative facts” in the fediverse.
In my move over to lemmy I got nostalgic for how some older things were done, what you might be talking about are FAQs for specific topics like we had in the Usenet days. If this interests you, I have a new community started for collecting and creating those kinds of things. Not much there yet but I’ll grow it over time and would love for others to contribute.
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/faqs
And a shameless plug for my other community https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/bbses
This looks promissing. I’ll have a look. Thanks.
There was at one time a project to build an ActivityPub extension to XWiki. The code is still out there but I don’t think the project is actively being maintained.
How would federation with other platforms work? Or would it have it’s own protocol (Diaspora* or Matrix style), with federation reduced to a descentralization of servers?
Since I had hoped for an existing solution, I did not think about any technical details.
I can think of a few examples:
- XWiki offers an ActivityPub extension that brings in federation capabilities.
- Smallest federated wiki is a project by Ward Cunningham that’s apparently capable of federation, though I don’t think it’s ActivityPub.
- Dokieli describes itself more as a collaborative article publishing platform
Hubzilla also has a wiki feature that you can integrate into channels, and allows for collaborative editing.
