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wiki.lemmy.zip - Lemmy.zip's test federated wiki (wiki.lemmy.zip)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Demigodrick to c/announcements

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Following @[email protected]'s announcement (here: https://lemmy.zip/post/11580990) I've spun up a test version of the new Wiki at wiki.lemmy.zip.

Community mods - if you fancy making a wiki for your community, now is your chance!

Its really very barebones at the moment, with no account management and very few tools, so please don't use the same password as you do here and please be mindful that, while I do daily backups, data on this site has a high probability of being lost.

That said, if you have 5 minutes please check it out, create a small article about something you care about, that sort of thing.

Let me know if you have any questions!

Cheers,

Demigodrick

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Cool. Dumb question but what's it for

[–] Demigodrick 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Currently - testing

In the future, would be nice for communities to be able to have their own wiki pages for information, much like many subreddits do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Oh I see, yea that's cool man. I think you did a good job

[–] possiblylinux127 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is actually what I needed

[–] Demigodrick 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Its very basic at the moment, but I'm excited to see what it becomes!

[–] possiblylinux127 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Could it become more mobile friendly? I also think it might be a bad idea to federate.

Cool idea though

[–] Demigodrick 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A fix for mobile has been submitted: https://github.com/Nutomic/ibis/pull/22

I'm still 50/50 on federation too, will have to see how it works out as it gets developed. Nutomic has said there will be none-federated mode which we could always switch to when implemented.

[–] possiblylinux127 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I'm just imagining the wiki being filled with political extremes or something similar that originates from somewhere else.

I personally don't really see the point of ibis and it seems like not the greatest software for the Job. With that being said, it I don't know the much about alternatives. In the free software community I mod someone suggested Media Wiki https://mediawiki.org. MediaWiki is what powers Wikipedia so it should be familiar. We might need to work on support for sign in via Lemmy.

Edit: Its media wiki not Media goblin.

[–] Demigodrick 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ibis has only really been around a couple of weeks and is brand new by one of the Lemmy devs, so this is really a test to see how it functions and how easy it is to use.

One of the benefits is censorship resistance and also downtime resistance. If your favourite community has a wiki and suddenly that wiki goes offline, all the other instances will have a copy of that wiki, much like a lemmy community, so that information isn't suddenly lost forever.

[–] possiblylinux127 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Ah, that makes sense. I guess I'm just a Wikipedia fan. I appreciate the fact that you are trying to create new services. Keep up the good work!

[–] v4ld1z 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Viewing the website on my phone in portrait mode leads to the formatting being a little off: all text and buttons are right-aligned. Is that a problem with phones themselves, or is it something else?

[–] Demigodrick 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah looks like someone has submitted a fix for mobile: https://github.com/Nutomic/ibis/pull/22