Ibis, a federated Wikipedia alternative

Re:Ibis, a federated Wikipedia alternative by labster on Thursday March 14, 2024 @04:28AM (#39701584)

There are already alternatives to Fandom. I volunteer with Miraheze.org, which hosts wikis without all of the ads, has been up since 2015, and has recently become a US nonprofit. We're currently geared towards more technical users, but we're trying to make more tooling to simplify wiki administration as we've taken on more users.

I also hear wiki.gg is pretty good, but they're focused on gaming wikis. A lot of Fandom wikis jumped ship to them (of course Fandom is like Hotel California, you can check out any time you like but your wiki content will never come down).

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Re:Ibis, a federated Wikipedia alternative by account42 on Thursday March 14, 2024 @08:11AM (#39702840)

> of course Fandom is like Hotel California, you can check out any time you like but your wiki content will never come down

And Jimmy Wales' Fandom puts enough effort into SEO that combined with their size their version will likely appear in search results before the actually useful ad-free community run wiky :|

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Re:Ibis, a federated Wikipedia alternative by iamacyborg on Thursday March 14, 2024 @05:45AM (#39701932)

Or just self-host, Mediawiki is pretty easy to setup, even for a large wiki.

I hear the folks running the Baldur’s Gate 3 wiki are doing so with a server that costs less than $20 a month and they’re hitting serious traffic numbers.

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