Comment on Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative

• Zorque@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Throwing shit at a wall would be a better alternative to the Fandom wiki site.

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• sab@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Then again, why would a fan page want to open for contributions from outside of that fan page? Why would the Star Wars wiki federate edits with the Startrek wiki? On which page of the wiki would this make sense?

  I just don't get it.

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  • nutomic@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    At minimum it means you don’t have to create two separate accounts to make edits on both instances.

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  • frefi@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I guess you don’t have to get it. I just mentioned that site as an example because it is kind of garbage, but it’s useful for fans.

    And the federation between fandoms would be like how different articles are connected on Wikipedia. For example, there are actors that had roles both in the Star Trek universe and the Star Wars universe.

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    • Zorque@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lots of those fan wikis just link to other websites. It's entirely possible to do that.

      If you're on a Star Trek wiki, why would you want to go to a page that's almost exclusively talking about Star Wars information in relation to some actor other?

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      • frefi@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I was pointing out that the two fandoms are actually connected by some actors because the person I was responding to seemed to be unaware.

        Maybe no one does this, but I’ve looked at character pages and clicked on actors’ pages if I liked them and wanted to see what other work they’ve done.

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• zarenki@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The main reason people use Fandom in the first place is the free hosting. Whether you use MediaWiki or any other wiki software, paying for the server resources to host your own instance and taking the time to manage it is still a tall hurdle for many communities. There already are plenty of MediaWiki instances for specific interests that aren’t affected by Fandom’s problems.

  Even so, federation tends to foster a culture of more self-hosting and less centralization, encouraging more people who have the means to host to do so, though I’m not sure how applicable that effect would be to wikis.

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  • frefi@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ok

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• yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fanlore already exists as an alternative

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