Federated wiki

<p>Listening to <a class="wikilink" href="/mike_caulfield/">Mike Caulfield</a>'s talk<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1">1</a></sup>, he evolves the ideas of <a class="wikilink" href="/the_garden_or_the_stream/">the garden or the stream</a>, into those of a federated wiki. The idea is working with <a class="wikilink" href="/transclusion/">transclusion</a> between different domains, controlled by different people. The <a href="http://fed.wiki.org/view/federated-wiki">website</a> has a look super similar to <a href="https://notes.andymatuschak.org">Andy Matuschak's notes</a> which probably justifies the latter choice. </p> <p>Even though the idea seems good in principle, federating a website comes at risks that I believe where not completely explored. Maggie Appleton<sup id="fnref:2"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:2">2</a></sup> describes the situation quite eloquently:</p> <blockquote> <p>We can easily imagine transclusions going the way of the public comments section. The 14-year-olds of 4chan might mass-tranclude the introductory paragraph of a New York Times lead story, surrounded by the incendiary lyrics of South Park's '<em>Uncle Fucka</em>'. In fact that would definitely happen.</p> <p>This system opens up all the gnarly philosophical questions around control, censorship, community moderation, and "<em>free speech</em>" that the web constantly makes tangible and visceral.</p> </blockquote> <p>Therefore, there should be a moderation mechanism and a validation mechanism that has yet to be developed. Transclusion works nice withing one's own content, but they will have the same caveats of <a class="wikilink" href="/essays/_web_mentions_and_comments/">essays/_Web Mentions and Comments</a>. I guess the most important thing is to learn from the past experiences, but I am not sure in which capacity. </p> <div class="footnote"> <hr /> <ol> <li id="fn:1"> <p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckv_CjyKyZY&amp;feature=emb_logo&#160;<a class="footnote-backref" href="#fnref:1" title="Jump back to footnote 1 in the text">&#8617;</a></p> </li> <li id="fn:2"> <p>https://maggieappleton.com/transcopyright-dreams&#160;<a class="footnote-backref" href="#fnref:2" title="Jump back to footnote 2 in the text">&#8617;</a></p> </li> </ol> </div>