What you list as disadvantages are exactly the main benefits of a federated wiki. For a contentious subject which can be interpreted in multiple ways, there should be multiple different articles which present these views. It can be possible to represent other viewpoints if they share a common root, but as soon as there is a fundamentally different understanding that breaks down.
Additionally, even a very large encyclopedia like Wikipedia cannot include all topics that users want to write about. For example when it comes to TV series, books or details about small places, it often doesnt meet the notability requirements and gets removed. So for these topics people need to use entirely separate platforms like Fandom (which are full of advertising). Ibis can allow all these topics to be present in a single network, accessible from a single user interface.
Sounds like you are familiar with this topic. I dont have time to work more on this particular aspect (there are lots of other tasks like comment support, federation with Lemmy, etc). But contributions are definitely welcome, preferably directly to leptos_use so that others can benefit and its easier to maintain.
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You can get the raw article text from fandom by clicking the edit button. Then you need to convert it from wikitext to markdown, there are varioustools for that. Finally post it on Ibis. Fandom also has an API, so you could write a script to automate all this.
If there are still problems you should open a new issue. We cant leave issues open forever because they go stale and dont account for new features. By the way we are planning to implement multi-communities.
Changing post.url from varchar(512) to varchar(2000) really messed up database performance so lemmy.ml became unusable. Turns out that column statistics are removed when the type is changed, so we had to run analyze as part of the migration. Seems like a bug in postgres.
What a shame, I spent a lot of time working on syncthing-android (probably around four years). But in the end I stopped for the same reason, it's very demotivating to be so reliant on a corporation like Google which is entirely indifferent or even hostile to open source apps. Every year with the new Android version there are new required features or mandatory changes to implement, and if you don't comply they don't allow publishing new app versions. That's not a big deal for commercial apps with fulltime developers, but it's a lot of work for small apps maintained by volunteers. And it's never anything that would benefit syncthing-android or it's users, just busywork that takes away from bug fixes and feature development.
The good thing about open source is that someone else can always pickup and continue the work. Google's shenanigans were what drove me to server administration and backend development, which finally led me to work on Lemmy. The experience with syncthing-android definitely taught me a lot about how to run a popular open source project.
Right I will also have to make a template with these common parts of the release announcement. Instance blocking is not implemented yet, but it uses the same federation library as Lemmy so that will be easy to add when its needed.
And yet the article manages to get people upset, makes the talk about it and get shared. Basically free marketing for SH2. It's a win-win for eurogamer and for the game publisher. All it takes is a single troll on Wikipedia and some PR work.
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What you list as disadvantages are exactly the main benefits of a federated wiki. For a contentious subject which can be interpreted in multiple ways, there should be multiple different articles which present these views. It can be possible to represent other viewpoints if they share a common root, but as soon as there is a fundamentally different understanding that breaks down.
Additionally, even a very large encyclopedia like Wikipedia cannot include all topics that users want to write about. For example when it comes to TV series, books or details about small places, it often doesnt meet the notability requirements and gets removed. So for these topics people need to use entirely separate platforms like Fandom (which are full of advertising). Ibis can allow all these topics to be present in a single network, accessible from a single user interface.