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What would be a good name for a federated Wikipedia? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by nutomic@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Let's say someone created a Wikipedia clone with Activitypub support, so you can freely read and edit articles on other servers. Basically the same way that Lemmy works. What would be a good name for such a project? Bonus points if the name goes with a cute animal mascot.

Edit: Here you can see the names of existing Fediverse projects.

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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

What’s wrong with the Wikipedia CODE that federated CODE will solve and how?

Wikipedia is centralized, and doesn't allow collaboration by self-hosted servers. Activitypub allows this. You seem to not understand the point of the site you're using right now.

[–] fishos@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I understand the point. I also know that we're currently defederated from hexbear and a few others. So in effect, there is less openness currently in Lemmy than on Wikipedia. How exactly is being able to do that.going to give us objective truth and not just 500 echo chambers?