Posts

avatar of @magnacarta
25
@magnacarta
ยท
ยท
0 views
ยท
2 min read

What would an almanac page look like on Hive? I haven't thought that far ahead. I've only been on Hive for nearly a year, so I have to think other Hivers (or Steemians before ID4 2020) have tossed around the idea of a wiki version of Wikipedia.

The final version would be a wiki-type reference available with read-only access to the world while posting and editing is done by people with Hive accounts. Data entry would be posts published using a dedicated tag indicating content for the wiki-ref. This way Hivers earn for their posts. After a while, these posts get offloaded to a dedicated wiki space where they are formatted for whatever the wiki-ref needs to look like.

Posts published to Hive blockchain will be available to the world read-only as expected. Content migrated to wiki-ref space will be available to the world read-only through another link. Editing is left to holders of Hive accounts.

The body content for each wiki/ref article would contain mainly links to Hive content, but if an external link is required then it gets included. Footnotes would be where most external links reside.

Links should come in 2 forms, one interchangeable with the other:

  • Standardized link containing dates, topics, etc.
  • SEO-optimized links

Since "drama" would occur during the editing process after a post is published, a distinction needs to be made here:

  • Presentation of alternative views which are just as provable as the original view can be presented as a separate page or section of a page. After all (3+2=5) is true, but so are (4+1=5) and (5+0=5). When different views are true, they can be presented or at least linked to.
  • Personality conflicts, flame wars, trolling, etc, is what I meant by "drama," and this is what the wiki-refs do not need.

When I wrote this post, I was thinking at a very high level about what it would be like. Just your comment and my reply here show that there is much more we need to consider before we (whoever ends up working on this should it go forward) can get to work on making the wiki-ref a working prototype.

Posted Using LeoFinance Beta