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[SOLVED: Updated every 24 hours] Display name and Bio updates don't seem to be federating

E.g.:...

Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative (ibis.wiki)

nutomic, 2 months ago

I dont have time for that, but other people could setup instances which mirror parts of Wikipedia.

nutomic, 2 months ago

You can make a pull request here: github.com/Nutomic/ibis/blob/master/…/ibis.css

nutomic, 2 months ago

Mediawiki is an extremely complicated project with 1.2 million lines of PHP. For me it was much easier to implement this project with technology Im already familiar with. But of someone wants to create a Mediawiki plugin I would be happy to see that.

nutomic, 2 months ago

Im bad at CSS, contributions welcome: github.com/Nutomic/ibis/blob/master/…/ibis.css

nutomic, 2 months ago

And some developers are bad at design/css (like me).

nutomic, 2 months ago

Yes it uses markdown.

nutomic, 2 months ago

I’m not good at frontend development or webdesign so I definitely need help in those areas.

nutomic, 2 months ago

At minimum it means you don’t have to create two separate accounts to make edits on both instances.

nutomic, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I would be willing to change the title, maybe “Announcing Ibis, the federated Wiki” ?

nutomic, 2 months ago

That structure is extremely corrupted though. And Lemmy shows that volunteers can handle this kind of stuff. Though Ibis will definitely need a lot of mod tools.

nutomic, 2 months ago

I dont speak French and havent heard about that drama. But its about the problems pointed out in this article among others.

If Ibis gets popular it will get listed higher in search results. Same as Lemmy which is also slowly going up in results. Before that it will most likely spread through word of mouth.

nutomic, 2 months ago

I think thats better than having our single “truth” controlled by a corrupt organization from a different country, different language and different culture. With federation there can be independent wikis for my local country or city.

nutomic, 2 months ago

It uses Markdown because it has the best library support.

nutomic, 2 months ago

I was waiting for someone else to create a project like this. But it didnt happen so I had to write it myself when things became a bit calmer with Lemmy.

nutomic, 2 months ago

By allowing users to interact between different wiki instances. Just like you can interact with Lemmy instances from KBin.

nutomic, 2 months ago

Nowadays I can easily handle all Github notifications within less than an hour. After the Reddit blackout there were so many notifications that I couldnt even read all the issues, let alone respond. So I had to unsubscribe from issue notifications for some months.

nutomic, 2 months ago

Interesting, maybe it wanted to tell you about this project :D

nutomic, 2 months ago

Right but that’s already over. And anyway Ibis was mostly finished since some weeks, just needed some minor work to push it over the finishing line.

nutomic, 2 months ago

Thank you!

nutomic, 2 months ago

Sounds good, please share the announcement in relevant places.

nutomic, 2 months ago

I mean the drama about it is over. We are constantly working to improve mod tools but it takes time.

nutomic, 2 months ago

That is true but most developers are still on Github, which hasn’t been affected by enshittification yet. I also have to keep using Github because of Lemmy, so I don’t want to switch back and forth between two separate platforms.

However once Gitea starts federation we definitely want to migrate Lemmy to a selfhosted instance, and probably Ibis too.

What is something lemmy can improve upon?