Federated wikis?

BaldProphet@kbin.social to Fediverse@kbin.social – 2 points –

On Reddit, communities could have their own wikis or knowledge base articles in a separate place from where the discussion happened. I don't see that kind of functionality in Kbin, so I'm wondering if there is a federated wiki type of thing somewhere out there.

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Hrm - would you want federated wikis? What's the benefit vs wikis run independently?

For example, wikipedia has a corner on encyclopedia type knowledge. No reason to federate as the central moderation on Wikipedia seems to work well. To be honest, I wouldn't trust encyclopedia type information from another wiki site as I don't know how active the community is there to maintain the accuracy of the information.

Then there's other wikis I know about like for games (thinking fandom.com) - but again not really a reason to federate between those that I can think of.

To be honest, my gut reaction is that I want fewer wiki sources, not more.

Reddit wikis are more about having a static page for information associated with a community than being a wiki proper. For example, music subs that maintain a "hall of fame" in a wiki page, or subreddit rules, or FAQs, etc. Not at all the type of stuff that would go on a fan wiki or wikipedia. This use case is valuable, although there are other solutions to the problem, e.g., sticky posts.

I'm not sure that would need to be federated. Maybe just to lemmy and other platforms with a similar model. But also, that should be up to the other instances, not us. If Mastodon figures out how to show a kbin "wiki" to their users in a way that is useful and makes sense, then why not let them do it?