Rather than starting from scratch, would it make more sense to make an ActivityPub plugin for the MediaWiki software Wikipedia is built on? MediaWiki already has some “interwiki” functionality that such a plugin could build on, and you’d have the advantage of being able to fork content from WP and other MW projects without having to re-format them. Plus you’d be able to leverage other MediaWiki plugins—Semantic MW in particular could add a lot of useful functionality to federated wikis.
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.
Rather than starting from scratch, would it make more sense to make an ActivityPub plugin for the MediaWiki software Wikipedia is built on? MediaWiki already has some “interwiki” functionality that such a plugin could build on, and you’d have the advantage of being able to fork content from WP and other MW projects without having to re-format them. Plus you’d be able to leverage other MediaWiki plugins—Semantic MW in particular could add a lot of useful functionality to federated wikis.
Both projects could run and integrate with each other. I like it.
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.