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Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative (ibis.wiki)
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[–] 19 points 2 years ago (7 children)

This serves well as a statement.

It is, however, delusional to think that at this point anything can become a viable alternative to Wikipedia, unless Wikimedia collapses because of reasons from within.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    All the more reason to push this project forward, as a redundancy.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    You can already download the entirity of Wikipedia. If it ever fell, the content could easily be restored elsewhere.

    Also, I don't think I understand why this should be federated.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The infrastructure is already there in that case, to restore it, and it would be less likely to fall.

    Having no sole source of information hosting in an encyclopedic format is safer.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    But having an open data project full of information that's actively contributed to and fact checked, with copies over many servers, is much better than having the same thing but fragmented. I still don't see a reason. If it was something else or corporate driven, I wouldn't bat an eye. But Wikipedia?

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