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[–] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

Why not just build a wikipedia mirror?

All the data is available for free via download, torrent, etc.

Idk I have no complaints about wikipedia to lead me to look for a federated alternative.

[–] liaizon@social.wake.st 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

One of the main devs of Lemmy (@nutomic) just announced a federated wiki project called Ibis

https://ibis.wiki
#fediverse

[–] jeena@toot.jeena.net 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

@liaizon @nutomic oh no, I didn't realize that was one of the Lemmy guys. I guess that means that Lemmy development will slow down.

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[–] vis4valentine@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

I think this could be useful for a project I have where school that are not connected to the internet could create their own wikis, however, I need to see how it develops.

[–] humanetech@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

Adding reference to HN submission of this article. Discussion thus far has 233 comments.

[–] hosford42@techhub.social 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

@nutomic This is a cool idea! But I have a lot of questions about how the heck you make a think like Wikipedia work in a federated way. Are articles duplicated on each instance, or do we lose some of them when an instance goes down? How does moderation work? How do I search it?

Also, I see someone else posting screenshots, but the link you posted takes me out of my Mastodon app to a Lemmy page where I don't see any links to Ibis itself.

(Saw some criticism of the name there. Ibis is an awesome & appropriate name, IMO.)

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Would have preferred a federated wiki in Lemmy, but still cool.

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[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

Oooh this is cool

[–] vis4valentine@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

btw is this compatible with Markdown or WikiText?

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[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

That looks like big news. Exciting! 🎉

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