Why not just build a wikipedia mirror?

All the data is available for free via download, torrent, etc.

Idk I have no complaints about wikipedia to lead me to look for a federated alternative.

One of the main devs of Lemmy (@nutomic) just announced a federated wiki project called Ibis

https://ibis.wiki
#fediverse

What could possibly go wrong!

@nutomic This is a cool idea! But I have a lot of questions about how the heck you make a think like Wikipedia work in a federated way. Are articles duplicated on each instance, or do we lose some of them when an instance goes down? How does moderation work? How do I search it?

Also, I see someone else posting screenshots, but the link you posted takes me out of my Mastodon app to a Lemmy page where I don't see any links to Ibis itself.

(Saw some criticism of the name there. Ibis is an awesome & appropriate name, IMO.)

I think this could be useful for a project I have where school that are not connected to the internet could create their own wikis, however, I need to see how it develops.

Adding reference to HN submission of this article. Discussion thus far has 233 comments.

Would have preferred a federated wiki in Lemmy, but still cool.

Yeah, no, wouldn't touch that from a longstick, specially from the political slant it's coming from. Wikipedia itself already has enough problems, Ibis is just asking to be a misinformation hub.