2015-09-23 10:41 GMT+02:00 Erik Aas <[email protected]>: > 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 wonder > if there are there any plans of making Wikipedia decentralised. > > Let me elaborate. I'm thinking of a system where many users each would > store a small part of the encyclopedia. A user wanting to look up or edit > an article connects to another user who has a copy of that article. When an > article is updated the update is sent to all other users (that are online) > responsible for storing that article. > > Are there any efforts to accomplish this? Would it be feasible? >
Basically you would like Wikipedia to work as git works for source code ? I guess it's feasible given enought ressources. However I think it's not gonna be ready anytime soon :) > > Best, > Erik > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> -- Pierre-Selim _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
