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The Forest wiki is the software running&nbsp; <a href="http://uncensorednews.us">UncensoredNews.US</a>.&nbsp; 163 RSS feeds, 55,000+ listed articles, 12,000+ recommended articles <a href="https://uncensorednews.us/climate-change?query=&amp;type=video&amp;recommended=recommended&amp;category=climate-change&amp;newCategory=">79 recommended climate videos</a>, and a growing number of curators. Login with Mastodon, post to Mastodon and import from Mastodon.

To circumvent censorship and propaganda, we need distributed news, a federation of IndyMedia news servers.&nbsp; The Forest wiki is a distributed news server.&nbsp;&nbsp; But it is much more than just a news server.&nbsp;&nbsp; A Forest Wiki news server, such as <a href="https://UncensoredNews.US">UncensoredNews.US</a> is a searchable tree of categories containing videos, articles, RSS feeds, Mastodon feeds and images.&nbsp;&nbsp; When a topic suddenly becomes hot, you can search the historic database,&nbsp; and publish the relevant content.&nbsp; This is particularly helpful when it comes to politics, we tend to forget what some politician like <a href="https://uncensorednews.us/desantis">Ron DeSantis has done in the past</a>.&nbsp; When someone posts climate misinformation, I will often search for the correct information, and post a number of articles correcting their misinformation.

The Forest wiki is not just a search engine, it is also a discovery engine.&nbsp; If you search, and find one article of interest, you can browse the category, to find other articles of interest.&nbsp; For example the section on <a href="https://uncensorednews.us/climate-victories">climate victories</a> includes many things with completely different search terms.&nbsp;&nbsp; Or if you find an article you like about the risk of sea level rise from the Thwaites Glacier, you may want to also explore the following categories.&nbsp; <a href="https://uncensorednews.us/global-ice">Global Ice </a> --&gt; <a href="https://uncensorednews.us/polar-ice"> Polar Ice </a> --&gt; <a href="https://uncensorednews.us/antarctica"> Antarctica </a> --&gt; <a href="https://uncensorednews.us/thwaites-glacier"> Thwaites Glacier </a>.

There are a million tools for publishing articles on the internet.&nbsp; What the Forest wiki does is aggregate and curate those articles.&nbsp; The Forest wiki contains everything needed to run a curation site.&nbsp; You can add RSS feeds, it will import the articles and their preview images.&nbsp;&nbsp; You can curate the RSS feeds, recommend the good articles and quickly post them with an image to Mastodon. &nbsp; You can add timelines from trusted Mastodon curators. It will import their toots, filter them,&nbsp; import the recommended articles and their preview images.&nbsp; You can add videos, and their preview images.&nbsp; You can very quickly toot those videos. &nbsp;&nbsp;

We are so used to massive databases and infinite scrolling that we have forgotten a basic principal in human factors.&nbsp; There should be no more than about 7 items in a&nbsp; category. The Forest Wiki lets you sort content into a tree of categories. &nbsp;&nbsp; You can organize them as a topic taxonomy.&nbsp; You can do this one article at at time, or you can search, select the relevant articles and move them all at once to a desired category.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Then it is possible to just pay attention to the categories of interest to you.

If you would like your own Forest wiki Indymedia news server, point a domain name at cname UncensoredNews.US, send <a href="https://mastodon.social/@UncensoredNews">@UncensoredNews@Mastodon.Social </a>the url, and I will create the server for you.&nbsp; You can then login with your Mastodon account, and start curating news.&nbsp; In the near future you will be able to migrate your data to your own internet host using a Forest Wiki Docker container, or a BastilleBSD container.&nbsp; &nbsp; You can <a href="https://Demo.ForestWiki.com">play with an older version of the Forest Wik</a>i, or <a href="https://hub.docker.com/r/pythonlinks/forestwiki">download it from Docker Hub</a>, but it does not yet include the news curation functionality.&nbsp;

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