I did bump into this page, but it seems what they do is they buy air time intended for ads and place a kind of subverted piece in what is apparently called “culture jamming”. I was hoping more for an organic kind of movement on social media that gets people to talk about the issues more clearly and rethink what is acceptable.
Time and “order” are very unimportant with discoveries.
Im pretty sure historians would disagree with this statement.
I think time is an important variable, I should have stressed it more in the question. Sure, we would eventually get to the same ideas, but how long would it take? I suspect some development are somewhat expected as multiple people are simultaneously looking at the same underlying problem, while others come as a little more surprising.
It is very simple and few people, but it does work.
I don’t know the details on how to rehost wikipedia by myself, and also how to search and access unofficial wikipedia servers either. If this is all common knowlege for internet users, I am seriously lagging behind here. But maybe you are right and there really is no universal appeal for this, and overall people just prefer to see wikipedia as a single entity. But I think there would be benefits in federating wikipedia. Basically it becomes harder to take down information, and allows us to bypass wikipedia’s own strictness and bias. I know there are wikipedia alternatives but I would like to be able to access different view points seamlessly in the same platform, just like it happens here.
I recently bought a scale for weighting food and had a good laugh reading the manual when I saw “not to be used for illicit substance trade”. I imagined some small time drug dealer reacting “damn it”.