Re: [Wikimedia-l] Decentralised Wikipedia

2015-09-23 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
Many years ago, there was an idea to organize Wikipedia in usenet/nntp style (i.e. multiple servers conected via a dedicated protocol, and one can set up another one if he/she has enough resources and skills) - but I guess it would very hard to organize, as it all need to be live-synchronized. In

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Decentralised Wikipedia

2015-09-23 Thread Edward Saperia
Hi Erik, This might be interesting to you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HaeB/Timeline_of_distributed_Wikipedia_proposals *Edward Saperia* Founder Newspeak House email • facebook • twitter

[Wikimedia-l] Decentralised Wikipedia

2015-09-23 Thread Erik Aas
Hello, this is my first post to this list. I think Wikipedia is a great project and am impressed by how well it works. It seems the (lack of) funding of the project is one of the more severe threats to its continued success. Since (I assume) the biggest cost is the maintenance of servers, I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Decentralised Wikipedia

2015-09-23 Thread Pierre-Selim
2015-09-23 10:41 GMT+02:00 Erik Aas : > Hello, > > this is my first post to this list. I think Wikipedia is a great project > and am impressed by how well it works. It seems the (lack of) funding of > the project is one of the more severe threats to its continued success. >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Decentralised Wikipedia

2015-09-23 Thread Fæ
Hi Erik, If you compare the annual reports by the Wikimedia Foundation of donated funds against the basic annual cost of running the servers, these are only a tiny fraction of the total. There's no lack of funding for the basics, so this is not a risk at the moment. A closely related discussion

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Decentralised Wikipedia

2015-09-23 Thread Denny Vrandecic
To the best of my knowledge, the two leading candidate technologies for a decentralized Wikipedia - git and blockchain - would both not scale to Wikipedia's requirements. (But I am not an expert in distributed technologies, merely looked into these two for exactly this use case.) On Sep 23, 2015

Re: [Wikimedia-l] next Wikidata office hour

2015-09-23 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Lydia Pintscher wrote: > Hey everyone :) > > We'll be doing the next Wikidata office hour on September 23rd at > 17:00 UTC. See > http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=17=00=0=23=09=2015 > for your timezone. We'll

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Decentralised Wikipedia

2015-09-23 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, At the time Andrew S. Tanenbaum had a working model for decentralised Wikipedia. This model was taken through its paces using models specifically created for its type of use. The WMF was not able, willing, never mind to provide traffic data to fine tune the model. It would scale. Thanks,