this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2024
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (2 children)

For the love of god fix ur mobile css

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (9 children)

Not everyone here is a developer.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Rather than starting from scratch, would it make more sense to make an ActivityPub plugin for the open-source MediaWiki software Wikipedia runs on? MediaWiki already has some “interwiki” functionality that such a plugin could expand on, and you’d have the advantage of being able to fork content from WP and other MW projects without having to re-format it. Plus you’d be able to leverage other MW plugins—Semantic MediaWiki in particular could add a lot of useful functionality to federated wikis, like articles that could query and aggregate information from other federated articles rather than just linking to the text.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago

Mediawiki is an extremely complicated project with 1.2 million lines of PHP. For me it was much easier to implement this project with technology Im already familiar with. But of someone wants to create a Mediawiki plugin I would be happy to see that.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

Both projects could run and integrate with each other. I like it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (3 children)

The link is virtually unreadable, it formats really strangely on mobile. The text is in a 1cm wide column on the right side, allowing only ~3 letters per row.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Very interesting concept. Since the original wikipedia is in most parts published under licenses that permit copying & adaptations, are you planning to integrate their articles as a snapshot for the sake of having a solid foundation?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I dont have time for that, but other people could setup instances which mirror parts of Wikipedia.

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