Ibis 0.3.2 - Wikipedia Import, UI Translation and more

2026-04-22 11:31 UTC

Ibis is a federated encyclopedia with numerous features. If you want to start a wiki for a TV series, a videogame, or an open source project then Ibis is for you! You can register on an existing instance or install it on your own server. Then you can start editing on the topic of your choice, and connect to other Ibis instances for different topics. Federation ensures that articles get mirrored across many servers, and can be read even if the original instance goes down. Ibis is written in Rust and Webassembly, fully open source to make enshittification impossible. After a long hiatus here is finally a new release of Ibis. The user interface received some polishing, and can now be translated to different languages. You can help with translations via Weblate. If you already have an account and want to fill it with more articles, use the new Wikipedia import! You can import individual articles by Url on the “Create Post” page. Or write a bulk import script with curl https://ibis.example/api/v1/article/import -d ‘url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet’ -H ‘Cookie: auth=my_auth_cookie’. Full changelog If you are interested what a federated wiki can do, join and give it a try. You can register on ibis.wiki, open.ibis.wiki or other instances. You can also install Ibis on your own server. It is very lightweight and can easily run on an existing server alongside other software. This release includes an additional installation method using Docker. To discuss the project, report problems or get support use the following links: Lemmy | Matrix | Github

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@camperotactico@lemmy.world 2026-04-22 12:11

I am excited to learn about this project. One of the things I hate the most about browsing the internet is when I end up in one of the Fandom wikis. I am sure this will become super popular

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@warmaster@lemmy.world 2026-04-22 17:10

How does it compare to MediaWiki ? What would (hypothetically speaking) stop Wikipedia from switching to ibis ? I mean, I have to try ibis, but it looks freaking great, and the federation features would come in handy to distribute the burdens of hosting.

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@bmcd@wizard.casa 2026-04-23 12:35

[@nutomic](https://lemmy.ml/u/nutomic) [@fediverse](https://lemmy.world/c/fediverse) Looks very nice. Got registered. If I were a techie, I'd install it and give it a whirl.

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@wiki_me@lemmy.ml 2026-04-22 16:34

> You can register on ibis.wiki, open.ibis.wiki or other instances. Correction, they are not listed as open to registration on [fediverse.observer ](https://ibis.fediverse.observer/list) and they don't have a register button on the front page. unlike [fedipedia](https://fedipedia.org/) which is opened. Also some instances appear to be missing from fediverse observer (i see at least opentextbooksolutions.org not appearing). you could feed it manually which should work (i did it for opentextbooksolutions.org) but a automatic addition will be better. also a lot of the other instances listed on the page you linked appear dead.

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