Moral rights, corporations, archives, and legacies have motivated my implementation of Federated Wiki for systems research since 2022.
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A FedWiki page is the unit of change. Pages may reference other items; those resources can be “present,” “remote,” or “not yet here.”
Pages carry a notion of where they came from (the site they were first seen/edited on). The journal provides an edit trail; origin links “point back” and help discover peers.
Ellipsis → Ghost/gray links & lazy transclusion
If we link or transclude something we don’t have locally, we render a placeholder. When the page shows up (via browsing a neighbor or explicit fork), the placeholder “fills in.”
Promotion → Fork + local edit becomes local authority When you fork a page to your site and change it, your site becomes the prime authority for your copy. Others may later choose your copy over previous authorities
.Resolution → One page per slug, merge by journal Each site maintains a single page per slug. Conflicts are handled socially and by forking/merging, not by forcing a single global state.