Talk:Federated Wiki

Should this be merged into Federated Wiki per Mike Caulfield's suggestion? Jason Green (talk) 20:31, 7 January 2015 (UTC) Federated Wiki (capitalized) is the term used to refer to the software at this point (and really for a couple years now). Smallest Federated Wiki referred to an earlier pilot version. The name persisted because the welcome text was never changed, resulting in naming confusion. As of last month the welcome text has been changed. ~ Mike Caulfield — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.166.35.226 (talk) 20:40, 7 January 2015 (UTC)


 * This page could very well be renamed to Federated Wiki and turned into a redirection, only leaving a paragraph with an explanation of the early naming scheme including a *smallest*, as Mike explains above. Yalamerde (talk) 11:49, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

See also https://www.terena.org/activities/eurocamp/november07/slides/solberg-federating-wiki.pdf a reference to federated wikis from Nov 2007. This may require disambiguation. Jason Green (talk) 20:51, 7 January 2015 (UTC)


 * There may be different imaginaries at work when people think of federating wikis. Thank you for the link to that presentation, which seems to be available via http://web.archive.org/web/20160303224342/https://www.terena.org/activities/eurocamp/november07/slides/solberg-federating-wiki.pdf nowadays. The original design ideas of the wiki federation per Ward Cunningham originate in http://design.fed.wiki.org/folk-memory.html Yalamerde. There are more current attempts at federating MediaWiki instances, e.g. between Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia and Wikibase: 1, 2, 3, 4
 * Your example appears to be about federated authentication between multiple instances of a wiki software, and not about federating their content. (talk) 11:49, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

Notability?
Is this software really notable?

The only notable thing about it - even when mentioned in the cited articles - is the involvement of the original wiki author.

That should make it a note in his bio, or a note in wiki history article. --- Running 09:17, 29 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Call me crazy, but the inventor of the wiki inventing a whole new different wiki format? That merits an article on the wiki-pedia IMHO. Moreso when the initiative has been covered by articles on Wired, The GovLab and at least two other sites. Is it not popular? True, but that is not a relevant factor at WP:Notability.
 * Could we merge into a section at Ward_Cunningham? Yes we could, as an editorial decision; but I see no problem in having a separate page for this software. Diego (talk) 12:09, 29 October 2020 (UTC)


 * We don't have a new article every time djb invents a new protocol either. I haven't really digged down *that* deeply into the links though - Running 10:07, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

From my point of view, as a long-time contributor to the federated wiki, it is of great importance to the fields of hypertext writing systems, distributed systems architecture and federated infrastructures, that this software artefact is present on the Wikipedia for numerous reasons: it pioneers in so many ways, it could be worth to rewrite the article (after renaming ^^) with including those reasons. Inspiration can be taken here from https://www.freefairandalive.org/read-it/#8, next to other sources from the wiki federation. Yalamerde (talk) 11:49, 31 July 2021 (UTC)