2009/4/23 Thomas Dalton <[email protected]>: > 2009/4/23 David Gerard <[email protected]>: >> 2009/4/23 Anthony <[email protected]>:
>>> I'll let you use p2pedia.org. :) >> Suggestion: Distributed git-based backed for MediaWiki. >> Usefulness: encouraging forks *and merges*. Now *that* could kick >> Wikipedia's arse in useful and productive ways. > I recall this being discussed before somewhere (mediawiki-l?). It's an > interesting idea, but I don't know enough about git to know if it > could actually be made to work (it would need something better than > our current edit conflict system, for a start). The idea's been floated a lot, and I think someone was playing with it. But the notion of storing revs in a database - and rather a lot of very specific, not very portable MySQL-specific optimisation - is deeply rooted in the code. I suspect it would be rather a lot of work. You could do something similar with database replication, but I believe Wikimedia tried this - keeping the Asian-language wiki databases on the Korean servers - and eventually decided it didn't give much advantage and so everything went back to live on the honking great servers in Florida. - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
