Tommi 🤯 (@tommi.space)

Tommi 🤯 @ 39C3 📞9848 (@[email protected]) # [Federating knowledge: exploring ways to bridge wikis and notes](https://pretalx.wikimedia.de/39c3-2025/talk/GKNLVZ/) Join the workshop at #39C3! NEW DATE: **Day 4, 13:40** @ [Free Knowledge Habitat Workshop Area](https://39c3.c3nav.de/l/free-knowledge-workshop-area/). *Most people and organisations have their very own way of acquiring, organising, archiving, sharing, and collaborating on knowledge repositories. A broad spectrum of opinions and approaches resulted in a diverse and rich ecosystem of knowledge management solutions. Nevertheless, this also implies scattered and disconnected knowledge sources. What would it mean to build bridges among wikis and federate knowledge?* This workshop is going to be heavily centred on a twofold discussion, exploring the challenge of federated knowledge starting from two questions. - What does it mean to *federate* knowledge repositories? - Instead of pursuing a silver-bullet solution to embrace all use-cases, what would it mean to foster and enable interoperability for different software? These questions stem from years of questioning and wondering how to integrate my personal note-taking and collective, participatory knowledge management at work, in organisations, institutions, and informal collectives. Recently, I began actively researching this topic as I started playing with the [MediaWiki API](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API) to cross-synchronise my local Markdown notes and the [XPUB wiki](https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/), the public learning wiki of the [Experimental Publishing](https://xpub.nl) master. I am puzzled by taking advantage of the potential of a specific software (in this case, MediaWiki) while fearing of being locked-in. Some further, more specific, insights and questions: - Local-first approaches and software (e.g. [Reflection](https://github.com/p2panda/reflection)) - Interesting experiments based on existing protocols, such as [Ibis](https://ibis.wiki) - What do we take of semi-open and obscure yet very cool initiatives like [Anytype](https://anytype.io) - The power and the limits of plain-text: how to enable collaboration on simple Markdown files and build on top of it, as [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md) does Cc: @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #knowledge #FreeKnowledge #wiki #MediaWiki #API #Obsidian #Anytype #Ibis #IbisWiki #Reflection #CCC #Federation #federatedKnowledge #docs #PKM #knowledgeManagement #personalKnowledgeManagement #collectiveKnowledgeManagement #DWeb #decentralization #ActivityPub https://pan.rent/@tommi/115784626469089628