I LOVE Wikipedia, I think it’s one of the best websites of the internet.
But the fact is that Wikipedia has many flaws:
- Editing became very hard on Wikipedia based on the amount of rules to respect
- Wikipedia is biased, many cultures and minorities are not well represented among editors and pages.
- Wikipedia is a dependence, I can’t imagine Wikipedia disappear, I think it already changed the way people see knowledge, not as something fixed anymore, but as something dynamic that changes and evolve.
- Wikipedia ‘sources admission’ are also very… Weird. Because you can be a professional in a special field, it doesn’t mean your contribution will be accepted, just because your source is not coming from a ‘reliable source’, even if YOU are this reliable source.
There are other problems as well, but I think those are the most important ones.
What do you think about it? If you could change anything or everything to Wikipedia, what would you do?
Ward Cunningham the original wiki inventor has also invented a federated wiki. Seems to be quite dead though.
The layout/ux is really complicated, most people would probably not use it for that reason alone.
Yes, but there’s worse: to edit a page, you need to host an instance of the wiki yourself.
I wonder how that would handle article conflicts.
I think it works using forks, which means several versions can coexist. You can accept or decline a fork of another user on your instance.