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It is notable that MediaWiki[0] is a decentralised / self-hosted Wikipedia. Of course, it is also what Wikipedia runs on. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M

• rakoo 10y ago
  > decentralised / self-hosted Those are not the same thing. "Decentralised" implies that the functionality is provided by a bunch of nodes that communicate together. A MediaWiki instance is a single website that doesn't communicate to other MediaWiki instances for its functionality. Smallest Federated Wiki (https://wardcunningham.github.io/ https://wardcunningham.github.io/) is closer to what a decentralised wiki software would be.
  • Normal_gaussian 10y ago
    It depends. I would have done better to put decentralised in quotes myself. It was being used to refer to the fact that a company wiki isn't under a central authorities control. This was the common contextual usage of decentralised in this thread (stemming from the fact that all twitter accounts are under a central authorities control). "decentralised" is such a mess of a term by itself.
    • eropple 10y ago
      "Decentralized", in computing, is pretty unambiguous. My Postgres database isn't "decentralized" because I run my own instance of Postgres. My Zookeeper cluster is "decentralized" because I can shoot nodes dead and the remaining ones will handle their business as far as continuing operation.