Federated Wiki

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A Federated Wiki is a new type of wiki created by Wiki inventor, Ward Cunningham and others, they work similarly to Federated Social Networks.

A wiki can be create by anyone; you just install the software and run it on a server. But changes to pages can be pushed or pulled cross-wiki. If you don't want to run your own, you can choose a Wiki Community/Provider that in alignment with your preferences.

From Ward Cunningham's GitHub:

We imagine two components:

 1. a server component managing page storage and collaboration between peer servers, and, 
 2. a client component presenting and modifying the server state in server specific ways.

This project should be judged by the degree that it can:

 Demonstrate that wiki would have been better had it been effectively federated from the beginning.
 Explore federation policies necessary to sustain an open creative community.

Federated Wikis: A Step Toward A P2P Wiki