Introducing IBIS-Wiki

A federated encyclopedia which uses the ActivityPub protocol, just like Mastodon or Lemmy. https://ibis.wiki/

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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    16 days ago

    Hm, that’s not how Lemmy communities / threads tend to develop. Unless you’re considering the effects of defederation I guess.

    • Monkey With A Shell@lemmy.socdojo.com
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      16 days ago

      Missing an /s?

      Take a look at the ‘news’ on various instances like hexbear vs world and it’s night and day. An encyclopedia is meant to be factually reliable, but if this works like it does here you would have the equivalent of conservapedia and prolewiki sitting side by side as ‘true’.

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        16 days ago

        Any encyclopedia will reflect the biases of its editors. The best you can do is to have good procedures and fact-checkers.

      • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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        16 days ago

        What you’re observing are different communities and different threads. The same community lemmy.world/c/news is roughly the same across most instances. A specific thread in some community in lemmy.ca is roughly the same when viewed from most instances. I imagine a wiki page would function like a thread in Lemmy. Any instance federating with most instances would see roughly the same version of the wiki page as the originating instance.

        • Monkey With A Shell@lemmy.socdojo.com
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          16 days ago

          That could be, I was thinking if the pages were more like the communities. I would have to think they need to be for any kind of moderation, otherwise who approves edits or has edit permissions? If someone else doesn’t agree with the vision on the existing page/thread what stops someone from putting up an alternate version?