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philosophy-wiki.mdwn

I’m going to start a philosophy wiki. I already have many ideas and notes written on paper, which I will type soon into this page.

For now I’ll just continue from the point I stopped in the written notes.

Language

Clearly, such a wiki is needed at least for the entire western world. It means multi-language support would be very nice, in particular having English as a supported language. But it’s also important to create local community discussion, allow people to be expressive in their local languages. For my case, it means Hebrew must be supported too.

I decided to use ikiwiki. MediaWiki probably provides more features and convenience, but it’s heavy and I can’t self-host heavy things well. ikiwiki is a wiki compiler, returning static pages in real-time, which is ideal for my case. And it’s quite flexible.

I want to give users of all languages freedom to express themselves, so I won’t use the PO plugin for the entire content. Should I use it for some? For example, the “informative” pages could use it. But then, won’t discussions be forced to English? I also want separate per-language discussion spaces. Idea: Give each language a namespace, and allow users to freely use other languages’ content as inspiration. Just like in Wikibooks, parallel books in different languages can use each other’s content, especially non-English versions of English wikibooks.

Ideas for sections:

Before I create the wiki, there is an issue I’d like to discuss here. A major one.

Philosophy must be done in cooperation, by seeking the truth together, discussing it and trying to prove or disprove ideas. I feel I have something to teach, , but I’m worried that a wiki will end up containing everyone’s contradicting beliefs and it won’t be a good space for me to teach and express what I learned about ethics and about the Good.

So… should it be a general wiki or a space for me? If it’s the latter, won’t the name “seek together” be ironic?

Here’s an idea. I’ll start by having this as a website, and later I’ll decide. Or I can make put my text in a separate space, such as under the “people” subdirectory, and later copy from there to the general wiki space. Anyway, for now, just write it as a website.

This first step can be viewed as “laying the foundations”. I can just start writing in the top-level directory, without any paperwork.

Hey, here’s another idea. I can make a general wiki as planned, and another new separate wiki for my own text, that works like a personal workspace. It can be in a subdomain, of either domain (rel4tion and seek-together).

I’ll just start writing. The first step will be to copy some templates and other basics. I’m starting in Hebrew, so that I can fully focus on the ideas without any language barriers.

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