Wikia is owned by Jimmy Wales, same guy who is one of the wikipedia founders and has a permanent spot on the wikimedia foundation board.
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Hey Nutomic. Ibis seems interesting.
If I understand correctly the first and most crucial part would be reaching a certain critical mass. To do this, you would need to get a bunch of existing wikis to join the project as a federated entity.
I’ll list a bunch of random projects I know of that could take part in this. Like for example: https://www.appropedia.org/Welcome_to_Appropedia https://encyclopediaofmath.org/wiki/Main_Page http://www.gardenology.org/wiki/Main_Page
etc etc etc.
But it would be unlikely to reach a mass sufficient to make it feel complete, anywhere near wikipedia. Likely, what would come next is people starting forks of different bits of wikipedia (ie. I found anacho-wiki.org, which starts as a fork of all anarchist related wikipedia articles, but then lets users update the pages and create new ones). This would need to happen for lots of different niches I guess.
But I have a hard time envisioning how this would be successful in practice. Perhaps whats more likely to happen is “Ibis” attracting for example a niche group. Since this is Lemmy.ml lets say marxist leninists. They start an ibis instance on marxist-leninism. Then adjacent movements pick up, perhaps trotskyists, anarcho-communists, then maybe some russian historians start an instance, maybe one is started on political philosophy, and it slowly grows. Starting out as something niche that slowly branches out.
Anyways sorry for the ramble, thats how at first glace I imagine this could grow I guess. But what’s your view, how do you think it could grow? What’s the plan to make it “flourish”.
Do you think they’d do Apple?
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