I absolutely love wiki walking through random obscure fan wikis, but I hate how most are on Fandom.
I think a federated wiki solution makes sense. I could see it as an evolution of the interwiki concept.
This is the answer.
It’s not federated, but something like BookStack could be an option for self-hosted collaboration.
Easy hosting isn’t quite the issue. Dokuwiki is trivial to self host. What I’d like something that’s a happy medium between requiring account creation to edit pages and letting literally every rando with an IP address go to town.
I wonder if it could be done with a MediaWiki plugin, given how extensible MW and its plugin system is
Or maybe Miraheze but it doesn’t sem federated either
Yeah, that could definitely be cool.
Cost would be a big factor … Fandom got big by being free and eventually replaced (or heavily customized) mediawiki to the point it’s unrecognizable.
Hosting a wiki isn’t that expensive it’s basically texts and some lightweight pictures. The whole english wikipedia is around 109GB of data.
I’ve had this thought before, but have also wondered whether it’s even possible to implement this using ActivityPub, considering that a wiki inherently requires having the same state everywhere, but ActivityPub allows instances to ban and defederate how they like (thus become desynchronized from each other).
I see, thanks. Will look into that.
I’m not thinking of a single distributed wiki, but something more like Fandom where you can edit pages on other wikis that are federated to yours.
That doesn’t sound like a federated wiki but more like federated account management.
I mean most fandom I have seen have more than one wiki as there is more than one wiki company.
This is another example of the type of thing it would be great for conventions and clubs and such to host.
