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Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative

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  • Thank you!

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  • And some developers are bad at design/css (like me).

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  • Right but that's already over. And anyway Ibis was mostly finished since some weeks, just needed some minor work to push it over the finishing line.

    • [SOLVED: Updated every 24 hours] Display name and Bio updates don't seem to be federating

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  • User and community profiles are updated at most every 24 hours so you probably have to wait longer.

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  • Interesting, maybe it wanted to tell you about this project :D

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  • Nowadays I can easily handle all Github notifications within less than an hour. After the Reddit blackout there were so many notifications that I couldnt even read all the issues, let alone respond. So I had to unsubscribe from issue notifications for some months.

    • What is something lemmy can improve upon?

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  • Admins and mods can see this in the latest version.

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  • This is already possible.

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  • By allowing users to interact between different wiki instances. Just like you can interact with Lemmy instances from KBin.

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  • Mediawiki is an extremely complicated project with 1.2 million lines of PHP. For me it was much easier to implement this project with technology Im already familiar with. But of someone wants to create a Mediawiki plugin I would be happy to see that.

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  • I was waiting for someone else to create a project like this. But it didnt happen so I had to write it myself when things became a bit calmer with Lemmy.

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  • I dont have time for that, but other people could setup instances which mirror parts of Wikipedia.

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  • It uses Markdown because it has the best library support.

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  • I think thats better than having our single "truth" controlled by a corrupt organization from a different country, different language and different culture. With federation there can be independent wikis for my local country or city.

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  • I dont speak French and havent heard about that drama. But its about the problems pointed out in this article among others.

    If Ibis gets popular it will get listed higher in search results. Same as Lemmy which is also slowly going up in results. Before that it will most likely spread through word of mouth.

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  • That structure is extremely corrupted though. And Lemmy shows that volunteers can handle this kind of stuff. Though Ibis will definitely need a lot of mod tools.

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  • The readme has some basic description how the federation works. Viewing articles from other platforms should be easy to get working. Edits from other platforms would also be possible, but would require changes so that they can generate diffs and resolve conflicts. So not exactly easy.

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  • Its definitely an experiment and I dont know how it will work in practice. But we have this technology, so I wanted to take advantage of it and let people give it a try. At worst Ibis wont be adopted, then I just wasted a few months of time. At best it could turn into a much better Wikipedia, so the upside potential is huge.