Suggestion: Endorse http://infogalactic.com/ as the approved wiki of SaidIt

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[–]Robin 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

Endorsing alternative wiki(s) would be an opportunity to draw attention to https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Wikipedia/Problems

Alternatively, installing a mediawiki is no great project these days, and the weekly Wikispooks snapshots offer 20,000 pages of content to get started. The more extensions/customisations, the heavier the maintenance. Wikispooks has a moderate amount of custom content. Its maintenance is reportedly only occasionally hard work (e.g. at update time or fixing random issues).

If the idea is to encourage Saiditors to collaborate on building a better WP, then wiki.saidit.net would be my first name suggestion.

[–]sawboss[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

If the idea is to encourage Saiditors to collaborate on building a better WP, then wiki.saidit.net would be my first name suggestion.

If I'm honest I was motivated by a bout of paranoia brought on by WP's censorship and adherence to accepted narratives.

[–]Robin 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

WP is often a great reference for the official narrative.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Agreed.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Glad you weighed in.

I like wiki.saidit.net. I wish I'd thought of it. How about WikiPla.net or Wikindoo.it or SaidItWiki.net? Maybe all of them pointing at the same place.

Rather than starting a new wiki, it seems more practical to team up. Myself and other Saiditrons could help shoulder the expenses. But I don't know if WikiSpooks would like some of these other ideas. For example, hosting media, allowing for non-encyclopedic projects, personal blogs, vanity pages, essays, lists, stupid meme collections, whatever people want that abides by the rules. (I am going doing preproduction on an animated series and intend to use a wiki to organize it. InfoGalactic, for now.) Or maybe it's actually worth a second wiki for that, but still have all 3 partnered up - social SaidIt, encyclopedic Spooks, and random Stuff.

In particular I'd love to see things like /s/Sub also apply to /s/RedditLink or /ws/WikiSpooksLink and then vice versa. For example, on Wikipedia you can make a [[LV:LatvianWikipediaLink]]. Why not have a [[WS:WikiSpooksLink]] or [[IG:InfoGalacticLink]] and whatever else that we democratically determine is useful in a conversation thread or few.

FYI, even with all the SaidItrons and WikiSpookers and InfoGalaxians and Everipedians combined we don't have enough resources to rewrite an encyclopedia so I'm simply not interested in doing that. I think WikiSpooks is already off to a terrific start and would rather get behind that.

If SaidIt started another wiki it would be a secondary auxiliary site to SaidIt to replace the limited old Reddit-wiki and add more backup duties to SaidIt, like the IRC chat. I believe /u/d3rr is on board with this. I haven't heard from /u/magnora7 on this matter.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Nah we're not going to buy another URL, that's just more unnecessary cost, but interesting idea.

I think we'll just use the existing saidit system rather than starting a new wiki.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's not a cost if it's paid for, provides services, and adds greater functionality with oodles of support and development around the world.