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A '''federated wiki''' is {{tag|wiki concept}}, specifically one that is where individual [[user]]s help to host the content of the {{tag|wiki}} themselves. The fundamental {{tag|wiki idea|idea}} is that a {{tag|federated wiki}} can either [[mirror]] the entire site, or some portion of the pages they find relevant, or choose to [[fork]] part of it, and accept or reject certain [[edit]]s that they find more or less constructive.<ref name=TheGovLab>[https://blog.TheGovLab.org/post/a-modern-wiki-for-a-modern-internet-the-smallest-federated-wiki-on-the-govlabs-demos-for-democracy A modern wiki for a modern internet: the Smallest Federated Wiki on The GovLab’s Demos for Democracy]; ''blog.TheGovLab.org''; The GovLab; 15 August 2014; [[:Category:Wiki Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike|CC-BY-SA-4.0]]; accessed 13 August 2021.</ref> | |||
In 2012, [[Ward Cunningham]] decided to introduce the [[Smallest Federated Wiki]] on [[GitHub]] to allow users to help 'federate' [[WikiWikiWeb|Ward's Wiki]], or any other projects.<ref>Jennifer Zaino (9 March 2012); [[Archive.org:20120831094614/http://SemanticWeb.com/ward-cunninghams-smallest-federated-wiki-paves-road-to-our-curated-future_b27267|Ward Cunningham's Smallest Federated Wiki paves road to our curated future]]; ''SemanticWeb.com'' (via [[Archive.org]]); WebMediaBrands Inc.; archived 31 August 2012.</ref><ref name=Wired>[https://www.Wired.com/author/klint-finley/ Klint Finley] (4 July 2012); [https://www.Wired.com/2012/07/wiki-inventor/ Wiki inventor sticks a fork in his baby]; ''www.Wired.com''; Condé Nast; accessed 13 August 2021.</ref> See [[GitHub:WardCunningham/Smallest-Federated-Wiki|here]]. Inspired by the communal ethos at GitHub, this federated wiki concept is similar to [[interwiki]], and [[MeatballWiki]]'s idea of 'OneBigWiki'.<ref name=Wired/> Specifically, individual wiki pages can be created within one wiki site, but crucially, be subsequently edited by different people with differing perspectives – with each edited version being stored locally on the editors own server, but also linked back to the original article. The original page creator can chose to integrate the new edit back into their own original, or to allow the diverging edits to co-exist separately, but still linked to each other. This is totally opposite to the conventional wiki way, as is evident by the [[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] model (and all other [[:Category:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]] projects).<ref name=TheGovLab/> A further feature of the federated wiki is that non-wiki pages can also be incorporated into a federated wiki site. | |||
In February 2015, a sample implementation was originally found online at: <code>[https://archive.is/XbCWL http://C2.Fed.Wiki.org/view/welcome-visitors]</code> (via [[archive.is]]). It subsequently moved to <code>http://Fed.Wiki.org/view/welcome-visitors</code>. | |||
==References== | |||
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==External links== | |||
*[[Wiki:FederatedWiki|Federated Wiki]] – at [[WikiWikiWeb]], aka 'Ward's Wiki' | |||
*[[Wiki:SmallestFederatedWiki|Smallest Federated Wiki]] – at WikiWikiWeb, aka 'Ward's Wiki' | |||
*{{Wp|Smallest Federated Wiki}} – at the [[English Wikipedia]] | |||
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