Ibis is a large hotel chain. I am not sure using this name is a good idea.
Ibis is a bird.
Ibis, a federated Wikipedia alternative
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#32Ibis is a large hotel chain. I am not sure using this name is a good idea.
Well, it was also the name of a bird long before that
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#33If there's one thing I DON'T want a new version of, it's Wikipedia.
this could be an alternative to fandom.com
There are already alternatives to Fandom. I volunteer with Miraheze.org, which hosts wikis without all of the ads, has been up since 2015, and has recently become a US nonprofit. We're currently geared towards more technical users, but we're trying to make more tooling to simplify wiki administration as we've taken on more users.
I also hear wiki.gg is pretty good, but they're focused on gaming wikis. A lot of Fandom wikis jumped ship to them (of course Fandom is like Hotel California, you can check out any time you like but your wiki content will never come down).
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#34Maybe make it tender properly on iOS safari first?
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#36Cannot take a project like this seriously in 2024 while looking like total garbage [1] on mobile.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Their significance in public life was been almost completely replaced by Wikipedia, though
Wikipedia articles are not consumed like traditional encyclopedias anyway. I would say that encyclopedias became much less relevant in general, but being one of the first influencial online encyclopedias, Wikipedia came to be used as a volatile source of information even though it didn't strive to be one.
As a meager pedestrian, I consume Wikipedia instead of Encyclopedias - that I sometimes did when I was a kid
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#38If there's one thing I DON'T want a new version of, it's Wikipedia.
Why not? Do you care to expand on your comment?
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#39Interesting. How does performance compare to other wikis? I'm thinking that something like this may be attractive for a browsable self-hosted private knowledge base with a "sync" server hosted on a VPS and local instances running on different machines which may or may not have persistent connections.
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#40The issue you seem to be trying to solve is that of authenticity and change management.
> The only solution is a distributed architecture, with many smaller websites connecting with each other and sharing information.
That is incorrect.
What you want is a block chain.