cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/5400348

Two days ago, I deployed the official wiki for lemmy.dbzer0.com. It’s using django-wiki as a software, which other than being markdown-based and therefore helping lemmings easily migrate documentation over, provides python hooks for doing some really cool stuff.

For example my current version is tied to my lemmy instance. This means that while everyone can read the wiki, only registered users of my instance can edit articles. This helps prevents the usual problem of open wikis, which is drive-by spam articles, and ensures that only people with interest in the wiki can use it.

I plan to extend this integration in the future. I am thinking things like minimum account age to edit all or some pages, profile pages which enable even tighter integrations, being able to specify “trusted instances” which would allow edits from their users as well, and so on.

But that’s not all, the same approach I used, can also be used to integrate with any fediverse software, like mastodon. This means each instance could theoretically have its own wiki to extend the information adjacent to it.

I’ll soon (I hope) will provide an ansible playbook that anyone can use to deploy it which will also provide my custom code to integrate with lemmy.

  • Lvxferre@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I wish that I could upvote this more than once. Amazing initiative - I always felt like wiki+lemmy could be a great combo, one for discussion and another for long-term storage of info.

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      To be fair, wikipedia was first, and markdown isn’t a “standard” :D Just one guy’s idea that became popular. But I also prefer the markdown format.

      • Ferk@kbin.social
        5·
        1 year ago

        Also, I’d argue the wikilinks (internal links) using [[any term here]] from Wikipedia, that optionally allow automatically inferring the link, is much more comfortable (and less error-prone) for the usecase of a wiki system, than the [text required](/link_here_also_required_even_when_redundant) from markdown.

        I was hoping they might have added some markdown extension to do something similar, but it seems not.