<story><title>Wiki inventor Ward Cunningham develops federated wiki</title><url>http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/07/wiki-inventor/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nicholassmith</author><text>I think this could lead to a lot of interesting possibilities but I&apos;ll focus on one.&lt;p&gt;Lets say you&apos;re on Wikipedia and for example want to know about the assassination of J.F.K, the Wiki article contains most of the stock facts and so on, but lets say you want to know about the really crazy and out there conspiracy theories of Hoover and aliens and so on, a federated system would allow people to set their own page up and you can continue through to it. The sort of content that sends most Wikipedia moderators into catatonic seizures indexed and available.&lt;p&gt;There&apos;s plenty of other uses out there, I just think it&apos;s an interesting point that it&apos;ll allow anyone with enough time on their hands to create an archive of what they think is relevant as a counterpoint to what someone else thinks is relevant. Don&apos;t like the standard descriptor? Normally you&apos;d have to fit a wiki mod, fork it off and have it as a counter point.</text></comment>
<story><title>Wiki inventor Ward Cunningham develops federated wiki</title><url>http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/07/wiki-inventor/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>drone</author><text>... and then the spammers have a field day: on every page, a list of 10,000 forks, re-titled with names like &quot;Luis Vitton CHEAP$!$&quot; and &quot;U 2 can aFf0rd Rolex!&quot;&lt;p&gt;Interesting idea when all players are playing by the same rules and with the same intent.  Not as appealing when the most active are there simply to generate noise.</text></comment>