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Official Minecraft wiki editors so furious at Fandom's 'degraded' functionality and popups they're overwhelmingly voting to leave the site (www.pcgamer.com)
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Here's hoping they migrate to wiki.gg as Terraria's contributors have a while ago.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

How would you federate content though? A Star Trek article in a Star Wars wiki makes no sense

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

since federation is the new hammer, there are going to be people who think everything is a new nail. just like what happened with blockchain

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Let's put the edit history on the blockchain!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Probably the most apt analogy I’ve heard.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Not that directly, but you can still have a "communities" tab with other Wikis. With the same kind of framework, it would be easy to share the same code and look, but still have it set up as one big mega site like Fandom is.

Or just one instance host a bunch of different Wikis, based on subject, and they agree to federate. There could even be a discussion tab for each page that allows any instance to post.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

how is this so confusing? it would be exactly like lemmy but wikis instead of threads. startrek.wiki would focus on startrek info but still have overall wiki stuff. just like db0zero lemmy focuses on piracy but still has other communities and content from other lemmy servers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It’s not confusing, there’s just nothing to gain from it. Federation makes sense for communication like e-mail and social media like Mastodon or Lemmy, where you have a “home” and want to be able to interact with others regardless of their server. But with wikis, it over-complicates things with little gain. Right now, people browse wikis on different websites. You don’t have a “home,” and that works just fine.

What makes a good wiki sustainable is if its articles are under a libre license, and if its database can be downloaded.