I've been seriously considering starting a wiki project on the truth of all things, regardless of whether they are discussed here or not. In a similar fashion to Wikipedia, it would require citations and reliable evidence, not simply something someone heard on a podcast.
I've had a name for it since the idea first appeared: Library of Truth. Sounds cool and fancy but it really should just be an open-source, user-editable, wikipedia-type website. Anyone have any ideas or know-how on this topic? I know it's super duper niche but I have over 5 years of wiki experience, including creating two well-run wikis that I have given to their respective communities to run. (Google: "GeoFS Wiki" and/or "Woomy-Arras.io Wiki")
I also have extensive wiki editing experience and I am well-versed in theme design, organization, etc. I just can't find any wiki platform that won't ban the wiki for saying the WTC-7 was a controlled demolition.
Can you expand? I thought the source code here was for a forum application, not for a wiki design. As I'm sure you are aware, forums and wikis are entirely different beasts. Forums are useful for one-to-one interaction and small communities, but wikis are designed to be a factual, cited representation of the truth, without any further elaboration or comment.
I also don't know how to access the source code here. Is there a Github repository or something?
This is the github repo: https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki
If you are fully serious about this, I can even help you set it all up.
Send me a link when you are ready i can fill a library with the rabbit holes ive been down
u/StormzAComing you already got Anons ready to rumble!
Lovely, I can't wait!
Would be cool to put it on IPFS so anyone can host any page. Would take some work tho
I don't even know what that is.
Potentially good idea. Can it host PHP sites (thats what the wikipedia source is written in) ? Can general public access it without special tools/software?
You can register a domain on ens, say mywiki.eth, then put an ipfs address on it, then you can use a bridge domain like eth.limo so people can just go to mywiki.eth.limo in any browser.
The back end is more challenging. It basically needs to be serverless and p2p. One approach would be to use a blockchain as the backend. Many options there with different tradeoffs. Another option would be to make your own p2p protocol where users host part of the content themselves ("pinning" on ipfs) or maybe even use git somehow. Then there's the question on which version is "correct" and maybe there doesn't have to be one, you can just browse others pages and merge them into your own library if you like.
The pieces are all there but someone would have to assemble them.
I am fully serious about it. I am a data- and information-oriented individual but when it comes to coding stuff, I need to be spoonfed or entirely absent from it. Autism is great heh heh cries