• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    351·
    2 years ago

    Rather than starting from scratch, would it make more sense to make an ActivityPub plugin for the open-source MediaWiki software Wikipedia runs on? MediaWiki already has some “interwiki” functionality that such a plugin could expand on, and you’d have the advantage of being able to fork content from WP and other MW projects without having to re-format it. Plus you’d be able to leverage other MW plugins—Semantic MediaWiki in particular could add a lot of useful functionality to federated wikis, like articles that could query and aggregate information from other federated articles rather than just linking to the text.

    • Nutomic@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      241·
      2 years ago

      Mediawiki is an extremely complicated project with 1.2 million lines of PHP. For me it was much easier to implement this project with technology Im already familiar with. But of someone wants to create a Mediawiki plugin I would be happy to see that.

  • imsodin@infosec.pubEnglish
    17·
    2 years ago

    Looks like a federated wiki, which is great. And not a Wikipedia alternative. What makes wikipedia wikipedia is not the tech. Social and knowledge problems can’t be solved with tech ;)
    As much as Wikipedia has issues, as the ibis announcement states, it also works in many places. And federating it won’t help with the issues of bad moderation, quite the contrary. And as much as I like nutomic (thanks for syncthing-android ;) ), I don’t hear many good things about the lemmy moderation story. So I have my doubts. Lets hope I am wrong. Plus anyway, federated wikis is a great thing to have, ignoring the whole Wikipedia aspect.

    • Nutomic@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      11·
      2 years ago

      I would be willing to change the title, maybe “Announcing Ibis, the federated Wiki” ?

        • Nutomic@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          Actually its too complicated to change the title in Ibis due to federation. Plus I would have to rewrite the whole intro. But I will keep it in mind for the future.

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    13·
    2 years ago

    wikipedia is already a great non profit source of public knowledge though i don’t see the benefit of fracturing it

    i can see a benefit to using this to replace things like fandom wikia though

    • Etterra@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      2 years ago

      The moderators of Wikipedia are largely a small, insular community that don’t always care about accuracy when it comes from anyone outside their clique.

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    2 years ago

    This is a cool idea, but I highly encourage you to target mobile first. Reference works will get a LOT of mobile traffic. More than 80% of Wikipedia’s traffic is mobile.

    • Nutomic@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      71·
      2 years ago

      I’m not good at frontend development or webdesign so I definitely need help in those areas.

  • nutsack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    i was going to screenshot the mobile browser view but it looks like half the comments are ripping on it already

  • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
    51·
    2 years ago

    What are the articles written in? Wiki lang (or whatever it’s called) is horrendous, IMO. Hopefully this is markdown? I couldn’t find after a quick browse through codebase and I don’t think it’s mentioned in the blog post.

    CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

  • viking@infosec.pubEnglish
    41·
    2 years ago

    Very interesting concept. Since the original wikipedia is in most parts published under licenses that permit copying & adaptations, are you planning to integrate their articles as a snapshot for the sake of having a solid foundation?

    • Nutomic@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      42·
      2 years ago

      I dont have time for that, but other people could setup instances which mirror parts of Wikipedia.