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  "id": 200497,
  "date": "2025-12-30T13:40:00+01:00",
  "start": "13:40",
  "duration": "01:00",
  "room": "Free Knowledge Habitat",
  "slug": "39c3-federating-knowledge-exploring-ways-to-bridge-wiki",
  "title": "Federating knowledge: exploring ways to bridge wikis and notes",
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  "language": "en",
  "track": null,
  "type": "Workshop",
  "abstract": "Most people and organizations have their very own way of acquiring, organizing, 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?",
  "description": "Update: [collective notes from the workshop](https://pad.xpub.nl/p/federated-knowledge-39c3) (editable link).\n\nThis workshop is going to be heavily centred on a twofold discussion, exploring the challenge of federated knowledge starting from two questions.\n\n- What does it mean to *federate* knowledge repositories?\n- Instead of pursuing a silver-bullet solution to embrace all use-cases, what would it mean to foster and enable interoperability for different software?\n\nThese questions stem from years of questioning and wondering how to integrate my personal note-taking and collective, participatory knowledge management at work, in organizations, 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-synchronize 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.\n\nSome further, more specific, insights and questions:\n\n- Local-first approaches and software (e.g. [Reflection](https://github.com/p2panda/reflection))\n- Interesting experiments based on existing protocols, such as [Ibis](https://ibis.wiki)\n- What do we take of semi-open and obscure yet very cool initiatives like [Anytype](https://anytype.io)\n- 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\n",
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      "name": "Tommi",
      "public_name": "Tommi",
      "avatar": "https://pretalx.wikimedia.de/media/avatars/tommi-exploding_n3f2Rq3.png",
      "biography": "https://tommi.space/\n",
      "url": "https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/en/user/speaker_9bf75f7a-53ce-54a9-9ef2-082d8e318749"
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  "url": "https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/en/event/detail/federating-knowledge-exploring-ways-to-bridge-wiki",
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  "origin_url": "https://pretalx.wikimedia.de/39c3-2025/talk/GKNLVZ/",
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