I keep feeling frustrated as valuable knowledge for my different hobbies over the last years became siloed away in corporate social media. I believe wikis could be a way out, but can we have decentralized, federated wiki software that can kind of talk among each other?

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[–] 12 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

Any community can host their own wiki using the software used by Wikipedia, the WikiMedia software even has very basic support for federation.

An example is the MCO wiki, a specific wiki dedicated to the MCO Minecraft server.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Yeah, to be clear, MediaWiki is open source and also has alllll sorts of really cool extensions. You also already can download the entire contents of Wikipedia.

    I think this desire to federate everything is going too far. Most things don't benefit from this and in fact just become over complicated. If you can host a regular copy of a site easily... that's frankly most of the benefits there.

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