Implement community wiki

[Huy-Ngo]

Is your proposal related to a problem?

One of the useful features Reddit has is subreddit's wiki, in which mods can write pages on

Describe the solution you'd like

Communities can have a wiki that should be federated well at least among Lemmy instances.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Currently some communities use external documents, such as google docs, which is not ideal.

Additional context

None

[Nutomic]

A federated wiki would be a major project on its own. I dont think it would make sense to integrate this in Lemmy.

[aerkiaga]

@Huy-Ngo as a workaround, I suggest that you make one or more locked text posts in your community with all the desired content and link them to each other, plus a link in the sidebar. This offers the same capabilities as a Reddit-style wiki (Markdown, editing, multiple pages), except for edit permissions (and maybe discoverability/UX?).

[dessalines]

The sidebar is also editable by any mod. Not a wiki, but still can be collaborative.

[Huy-Ngo]

Putting too much information into the sidebar would be counter-productive IMO, but the text-post workaround sounds good enough.

[Oneechan69]

@Nutomic @aerkiaga A community wiki wouldn't need to be federated or mirrored, it could work just like Reddit wikis, to have wiki pages with comprehensive information and guides / tutorials about thbe community's topic.

@dessalines You should reconsider this.

[dessalines]

You can already create any number of organized posts and link them from your sidebar, or each other.

If you want to work on this issue, lmk and I'll open it and assign it to you.

[Oneechan69]

@dessalines There are two advantages to reddit wiki pages over posts: wiki pages have the option to be edited by anyone or mods only. Only OPs can edit posts both on Lemmy and Reddit. Second, wikis can appear on the subreddit top bar.