Hi, I’m currently at an eco-village, and had a discussion about washing dishes per hand vs using a dishwasher. I was not completely sure, but have read somewhere, that a dishwasher is more efficient (in terms of energy and water usage). I just fact-checked that and indeed, when not being super careful by handwashing (no running water, using very little detergent, rather cold water etc.), a dishwasher is more efficient.
I think it would be super useful to have a dense wiki for stuff like this for everyday life, because it’s so easy to think that something different is more efficient. Because at first thought it doesn’t sound immediately intuitive.
Does anybody know if there’s something like this? And if not, it probably makes sense to start a wiki like that.
I wish lemmy had a wiki section
Reddit’s wiki section was such a treasure trove for getting started in a new hobby. I still cannot believe they got rid of that feature.
They got RID of it??? Between this and threatening to block Google, it’s like they’re TRYING to kill traffic to the site.
Can you elaborate, how that would work ?
Indeed could be good to keep longer-term ideas, rather than just reaction to news.Just a regular wiki style section on each community
Could be good, might need also a talk page, ‘rules’ (effort for mods) …? I suppose not too much demand on servers if just plain text, but how does this federate? For example, if I read a slrpnk wiki from sopuli, does sopuli have to pick up every edit, or only if I visit a page, or do i need an account on slrpnk to use it ?
My imagination is that the wiki is hosted on the instance that also hosts the news/posts. It is one page per topic, a basic Markdown/HTML document. Probably an existing wiki-software could be used. I imagine you have to be logged in to do edits, and also there is a public change-history. Maybe a mod would have to approve of the changes first. If you visit the wiki as a reader, a copy of the page has to be sent. It would be lightweight on traffic though, since text is typically lightweight. I must suggest such a feature immediately on my home instance. Thank you
It could start by having a pinned post thats updated with links to specific-topic posts. It would be a low barrier start, and it would make sure new topics (like washing dishes) show up in a feed. (If they don’t show up in a feed I’m probably never going to read them)
Once there’s enough content it’ll be straightforward to convert to a wiki.
Topics I’d like to see are; short/simple guides to rainwater collection and solar panels
If you host it, i’ll contribute a section
I am not aware of any good solar punk wiki projects. There are however several other great wiki projects online that we can link and and contribute to. Here are a few wiki projects related to the environment, sustainability, and various diy technologies
Appropedia.org - The sustainability wiki
On the topic of high quality information of the commons, I think what we really need is a decentralized federated wiki technology, like lemmy but for wikis. One that uses some combination of consensus based peer review, version control, and author accreditation. As far as I know, nothing like this even remotely exists - yet.
Edit 01 - Added Hacker | Solar! There are some good articles, not alot of activity in the past year
Edit 02 - I just saw the post talking about the official slrpnk.net wiki! Great work folks!