Mediawiki VS Invidious

Wikipedia that runs on MediaWiki which is written in PHP. source code

MediaWiki

"https://ibb.co/0F2rWbG/logo.png", 'icon' => "https://ibb.co/0F2rWbG/logo.png",];## UPO means: this is also a user preference option$wgEnableEmail = true;$wgEnableUserEmail = true; # UPO$wgEmergencyContact = "";$wgPasswordSender = "";$wgEnotifUserTalk = false; # UPO$wgEnotifWatchlist = false; # UPO$wgEmailAuthentication = true;## Database settings$wgDBtype = "mysql";$wgDBserver = "wiki";$wgDBname = "wikipapadeluxe";$wgDBuser = "root";$wgDBpassword = "";# MySQL specific settings$wgDBprefix = "";# MySQL table options to use during installation or update$wgDBTableOptions = "ENGINE=InnoDB, DEFAULT CHARSET=binary";# Shared database table# This has no effect unless $wgSharedDB is also set.$wgSharedTables[] = "actor";## Shared memory settings$wgMainCacheType = CACHE_NONE;$wgMemCachedServers = [];## To enable image uploads, make sure the 'images' directory## is writable, then set this to true:$wgEnableUploads = false;#$wgUseImageMagick = true;#$wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/usr/bin/convert";# InstantCommons allows wiki to use images from https://commons.wikimedia.org$wgUseInstantCommons = false;# Periodically send a pingback to https://www.mediawiki.org/ with basic data# about this MediaWiki instance. The Wikimedia Foundation shares this data# with MediaWiki developers to help guide future development efforts.$wgPingback = true;# Site language code, should be one of the list in ./includes/languages/data/Names.php$wgLanguageCode = "en";# Time zone$wgLocaltimezone = "Europe/Berlin";## Set $wgCacheDirectory to a writable directory on the web server## to make your wiki go slightly faster. The directory should not## be publicly accessible from the web.#$wgCacheDirectory = "$IP/cache";$wgSecretKey = "b564d730428f48d0882f0ae67283fc844ba41347848b4868501bdb524ff86342";# Changing this will log out all existing sessions.$wgAuthenticationTokenVersion = "1";# Site upgrade key. Must be set to a string (default provided) to turn on the# web installer while LocalSettings.php is in place$wgUpgradeKey = "d8e35fccd5b424df";## For attaching licensing metadata to pages, and displaying an## appropriate copyright notice / icon. GNU Free Documentation## License and Creative Commons licenses are supported so far.$wgRightsPage = ""; # Set to the title of a wiki page that describes your license/copyright$wgRightsUrl = "";$wgRightsText = "";$wgRightsIcon = "";# Path to the GNU diff3 utility. Used for conflict resolution.$wgDiff3 = "";# The following permissions were set based on your choice in the installer$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;## Default skin: you can change the default skin. Use the internal symbolic## names, e.g. 'vector' or 'monobook':$wgDefaultSkin = "vector";# Enabled skins.# The following skins were automatically enabled:wfLoadSkin( 'MinervaNeue' );wfLoadSkin( 'MonoBook' );wfLoadSkin( 'Timeless' );wfLoadSkin( 'Vector' );# End of automatically generated settings.# Add more configuration options below.

Do you mean Fandom wiki? You would want some kind of open source wiki platform. MediaWiki (used for Wikipedia) is probably the most popular and full featured.

It's all open source https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki

A little money, a little installation work, and this: https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki

This is overkill. The entirety of Wikipedia is made available for free download by the Wikimedia foundation, the code is open-source, and anyone can set up their own copy of Wikipedia on a normal PC with a big hard disk. Power this off a portable battery and solar panel and you have off-grid Wikipedia without any hardware hacking.

Last time I had occasion to use one - i used mediawiki

Youtube seems to be doing some A/B testing with the comment system which has made proxies like Invidious and yt-dlp/Newpipe unable to load comments. There is a patch for Invidious [1] which solves this problem but it is not in master yet. I tested it on my own instance and it does solve the problem.

[1] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4576

BTW, I don't understand the workaround: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4552/files

Which was taken from here: https://github.com/LuanRT/YouTube.js/pull/624

Could anybody explain it to me?

Use a Youtube proxy like Invidious [1], problem solved and you get to subscribe to channels without telling the Beast about your interests. Add Sponsorblock (which supports Invidious) to get rid of any in-stream advertising which remains and you'll be transported back to those hallowed times of yore when men were men, women were women and advertising was something you found in newspapers. Youtube will try to make this harder just like Xitter is trying to make it harder to use proxies like Nitter [2].

[1] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious

[2] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

Going to drop this here for others who haven't heard of it https://invidious.io/

Now, how do we fix this? YouTube's ad model sucks. Their algorithm sucks. Their front page sucks. They've captured a bunch of creators though so often YouTube is the only place you can find someone.

I want those creators to benefit from me viewing their videos. I want the fact that I view a video and like it to help other people find that video in their recommendations. I want an algorithm that shows me things that are interesting and relevant not one that promotes the spammiest and most ad heavy videos that barely have anything to do with my watch history.

Having an alternative front end is nice but I don't want to rob YouTube of the money they spend on hosting the videos.

So, how do we do this?

Peer to peer fails when there is little interest in something or when most people leech and it sucks for archiving old content.

Hosting it all in one place is super expensive and hard for a small group to manage without turning into YouTube.

Maybe we could find a way for the creators to host their own content and get paid when people view it while being part of a large federated network for easy discoverability?

Please list any projects you know of, I'm sure there are a lot of people here who would be willing to contribute or donate.

Sometimes a half-solution will do, like Invidious or Piped.

[0] https://invidious.io/

[1] https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped