I’d like to gauge interest for a nice solarpunk wiki - an easily searchable repository of knowledge for everything solarpunk. While a lemmy instance is great to share articles, links, meet like-minded folk, give quick tech advice, there is a lot of useful slrpnk knowledge worth collecting in a more systematic manner. Are we enough active people here to get that started yet? It might be early at this point, as @poVoq@slrpnk.net mentioned in a comment elsewhere, but as a wiki fan I’ll put that out here. Or are there other wikis out there worth supporting instead?
What might be a good start is a link collection. As basicly a sticky post, with a bunch of intressting lemmy instances, blogs, websites, organizations and maybe even some cool wikis. Getting a good number of links with a sentence of description would be relativly easy and a good places for newcomers to find some general info.
I think this is a great idea. I nominate the HydroponicTrash substack: https://anarchosolarpunk.substack.com/archive
@orvorn @MrMakabar I won’t be participating on a site that promotes racism like substack does. I’m also not a huge fan of losing federation and joining an silo.
How does a sticky post promote racism or be pro silo?
@MrMakabar Sorry, I could see how my comment could be read that way. If you want to make a sticky post here that’s great! I just wouldn’t make that link to substack because that platform is a silo/not federated and has issues with unmoderated racism. I was criticizing substack, not the sticky post idea.
The best time to start building a knowledge base is early
And, as always, the next best time is right now 😎
https://wiki.sunbeam.city/doku.php?id=start
Sunbeam city started on awhile back. I’ve not been in that community for a while though to say if they’ve been keeping up with it.
https://hacker.solar/ seems also interesting, but the server is very weak and not well maintained I think.
Looks very cool and with a good category setup. Going to have a closer look tomorrow, thanks for sharing!
Looks like a https://www.bookstackapp.com/ instance
What kind of wiki do you have in mind?
If it is just to collect some general instance related documentation then we already have one: https://wiki.f-hub.org/books/slrpnknet (I can create an account for you on that)
But I was rather thinking about community specific wikis with direct account link to Lemmy. This is a bit more complex to do and right now I am not really convinced that there is a need for it.
Lately before joining this instance I’ve been playing with setting up a wiki for traditional plant and mushroom use in my country, but that is only a small part of useful knowledge I would like to collect - in accordance with my permacomputational belief system i want to use the internet to collect and disseminate knowledge, it just happens that I really like the wiki format for that (rather than link aggregator or social media focused formats). A wiki to collect the collective knowledge of instance members could be great - however it would depend on how many people would want to contribute with actual content.
As for the tech side, does it have to have all the bells and whistles immediately and connect users and communities automatically? A simpler, more ‘manual’ setup could be okay to start with, especially with a limited number of collaborators.
Btw thanks for your work in providing this space, really makes a difference!
Account integration is IMHO necessary. Both to keep the administrative overhead small and because moving accounts to a different system later on is much more difficult that setting it up correctly from the start.
To add a wrinkle to this, would account integration only work with slrpnk.net users or would there be a way for others to contribute?
Yeah, what I have in mind right now would be only for slrpnk.net accounts (direct database access). Maybe one could also allow other sign-up methods, but it quickly becomes a spam issue and in general just causes more work for all people involved.
Ideally Lemmy would support being an Oauth2 provider (Like Mastodon) so that you could link multiple Lemmy instances for accounts, but I think support for that is a long way off.
having run community wikis, unless there are 2-3 dedicated people willing to put active work on improving the content; I advise against creating another wiki, when other existing ones could be improved.
What are the ones that currently exist?
I hear you, that’s where I’m also happy if anyone knows of worthy alternatives to participate in.
is a good option and local mirrors are possible as well
I started a small link list for now: https://wiki.f-hub.org/books/slrpnknet/page/other-solarpunk-links
Please share links that would be interesting to add.
I’ll probably look into adding a dedicated wiki once I finished the server optimisation and the xmpp account link.
