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,
GerardM
On 23 September 2015 at 10:41, Erik Aas <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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?
>
> Best,
> Erik
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