Then again, why would a fan page want to open for contributions from outside of that fan page? Why would the Star Wars wiki federate edits with the Startrek wiki? On which page of the wiki would this make sense?

I just don't get it.

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 25 points 8 months ago (1 children)

At minimum it means you don't have to create two separate accounts to make edits on both instances.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 8 months ago

This sounds like you want federation to replace openID.

[–] frefi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I guess you don't have to get it. I just mentioned that site as an example because it is kind of garbage, but it's useful for fans.

And the federation between fandoms would be like how different articles are connected on Wikipedia. For example, there are actors that had roles both in the Star Trek universe and the Star Wars universe.

[–] Zorque@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Lots of those fan wikis just link to other websites. It's entirely possible to do that.

If you're on a Star Trek wiki, why would you want to go to a page that's almost exclusively talking about Star Wars information in relation to some actor other?

[–] frefi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago

I was pointing out that the two fandoms are actually connected by some actors because the person I was responding to seemed to be unaware.

Maybe no one does this, but I've looked at character pages and clicked on actors' pages if I liked them and wanted to see what other work they've done.