if you're visiting this site you're probably already familiar with fedwiki or [[federated wiki]]. What you might not be as familiar with is [[zettelkasten]] (what the [[agora]] is based on)

I've been having fun comparing these two modalities to find out their respective pros and cons. 

fedwiki separates contexts by site, so each site will have a particular context or theme. I also call this a [[vocabulary]]. For example [http://crypto.wiki.anagora.org crypto.wiki.anagora.org] is a vocabulary about [[crypto]].

The agora on the other hand is essentially a curated set of zettelkasten selected by the agora maintainer. The agora lacks context, in that, each node or term displays all the available contexts on the same page. 

It could be argued that the agora and fedwiki are inverse models of each other.

I think agora would be a good tool to glue all the fedwikis together


they are federated on a page by page basis but there is no underlying matrix connecting them all


for example if i want to learn about [[food]] and look in the agora I can see a bunch of definitions of food (context free), so if I'm writing a fedwiki article I can add information I found in the agora about food (a contrived example)


the agora currently lets you use hostnames for user contexts so its quite possible one of the entries for food is another fedwiki and I can literally just drag and drop from that site, but use the agora as a discovery engine



fedwiki also doesn't seem to suffer as much from the [[data dump]] problem where people just dump a bunch of random crap into a node because "why not?". Example: [https://anagora.org/raw/garden/jakeisnt/pages/music.org this subnode] in the agora for "music"