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.
The source code itself is available here.
The real issue is that if you use any hosted platform, it will be prone to be controlled one way or another.
You can, however, run your own platform using the source code. It will cost you to keep it running, but in the beginning you can probably get away with a small instance on say VanwaTech where you can bee fully anonymous and pay by crypto, and as it grows you will need users to contribute for the hosting fees.
Ultimately this is the only way to run platforms that wont be comped.
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.
Would be cool to put it on IPFS so anyone can host any page. Would take some work tho
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?