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Re: Ibis, a federated Wikipedia alternative

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Post by j_maffe »

chris_wot wrote: post #60
bdjsiqoocwk wrote: post #3

If there's one thing I DON'T want a new version of, it's Wikipedia.

Have you ever tried to edit on Wikipedia? It’s one of the most toxic places on the Internet. I’m partially to blame for that, btw, as I started the admin’s noticeboard.

I've edited on Wikipedia for several years and everyone I've interacted with has been nothing more than helpful. Sure, they don't shy away from pointing out the flaws in something I wrote. But I appreciate that level of honesty and transparency. Could you share what area you've experienced editing in that caused you to have this viewpoint?

Re: Ibis, a federated Wikipedia alternative

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Post by j_maffe »

chris_wot wrote: post #63
bawolff wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problems mentioned aren't even real problems: - jimbo making CoI edits. He got caught, and edits were reviewed for appropriateness. System worked as it was supposed to - college drop out on arbcom (for those not in the know, arbcom is kind of like an internal court to solve user disputes. They are not allowed to solve content disputes or say what an article should say, only user behaviour problems). How is that a…

There are now hundreds, if not thousands, of decent editors who have stopped contributing due to toxic, non-productive people. This could be a way for them to continue contributing in a less toxic environment. The problem with Wikipedia is not consumption of content, but the contribution of content.

Care to share details/sources for this claim? I haven't experienced any of this toxicity while editing there myself.

Re: Ibis, a federated Wikipedia alternative

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Post by kemotep »

consumer451 wrote: post #43
omeid2 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Moderation is not a feature; it is a limitation imposed by powers that be for you if you want to conduct business. Moderation is not a feature.

You are writing this on one of the more heavily moderated forums on the internet, and people seem to like it here.

Hacker News is probably the most moderated site I use. Even more than reddit. And it is probably that much better for it.

Re: Ibis, a federated Wikipedia alternative

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Post by janfoeh »

beders wrote: post #40

The 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.

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Re: Ibis, a federated Wikipedia alternative

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Post by j_maffe »

t-3 wrote: post #39

Interesting. 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.

There's a lot of options for self-hostable wikis if that's what you're looking for. Decentralized has been done as well here: https://ipfs.kiwix.org/

Re: Ibis, a federated Wikipedia alternative

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Post by oefrha »

ulrikrasmussen wrote: post #27

I'm sorry, but aren't web sites already federated? I don't understand what the technical contribution is here. If we wanted to build a federated network of wikis (do we?), then links to articles are just links and identity is provided by OpenID Connect. What have I misunderstood? > Instead of individual, centralized websites there will be an interconnected network of encyclopedias. This means the same topic can be tr…

My impression as well. I could be totally wrong, but it feels like the work of someone who’s got the fediverse hammer and who’s also too immersed in the social media one-place-to-consume-them-all mindset to realize the absurdity.

Re: Ibis, a federated Wikipedia alternative

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Post by janfoeh »

outime wrote: post #36

Cannot take a project like this seriously in 2024 while looking like total garbage [1] on mobile. [1] https://i.ibb.co/3RWgMGy/IMG-4197.jpg

You believe the interesting, valuable part is the three lines of CSS it will take to improve rendering on baby internet browsers? Not the part where they federated a Wiki-style system?
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