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I am also confused how this project improves upon Wikipedia's moderation issues. Especially calling Ibis "federated", is it more "federated" than Wikipedia is?

I am also confused how this project improves upon Wikipedia's moderation issues. Especially calling Ibis "federated", is it more "federated" than Wikipedia is? It's also not like Wikipedia is unusable because of these issues. As with any source of information it is necessary to be skeptical with wikipedia articles. Wikipedia has the major advantage over any other source that the edit history is public. And even though there are many incidents with Wikipedia's moderation, the website has also existed for a long time now and contains millions of articles. With the scope and size of Wikipedia some incidents are expected. Wikipedia also compiles their own backup collections.[1] If at any point Wikipedia becomes actually unusable anyone could use the existing article to produce a new alternative database. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

okasaki 2y ago
Wikipedia's edit history is public in the same way the Firefox source code is open, in theory only. In practice nobody looks at it because it overwhelming.
baranul 2y ago
> Wikipedia has the major advantage over any other source that the edit history is public. This is why anything attempting to compete with Wikipedia, has to start from that point. Otherwise, full stop, not to be taken seriously. > even though there are many incidents with Wikipedia's moderation, the website has also existed for a long time... some incidents are expected. Wikipedia can never be perfect, as nothing is. At the very least, they are very public about editing and moderation history. You can at least publicly challenge anything and everybody about what was done or what they are doing.
dartos 2y ago
Federated means that individuals can host instances and have those instances communicate with other independent instances. So yes it is more federated than Wikipedia

okasaki 2y ago

Wikipedia's edit history is public in the same way the Firefox source code is open, in theory only. In practice nobody looks at it because it overwhelming.

baranul 2y ago

> Wikipedia has the major advantage over any other source that the edit history is public. This is why anything attempting to compete with Wikipedia, has to start from that point. Otherwise, full stop, not to be taken seriously. > even though there are many incidents with Wikipedia's moderation, the website has also existed for a long time... some incidents are expected. Wikipedia can never be perfect, as nothing is. At the very least, they are very public about editing and moderation history. You can at least publicly challenge anything and everybody about what was done or what they are doing.

dartos 2y ago

Federated means that individuals can host instances and have those instances communicate with other independent instances. So yes it is more federated than Wikipedia