Closest to what you're assking would be this new design
for federated wiki by Ward Cunningham:
http://fed.wiki.org/
(May still have some bugs.)
No idea if realistic to convert.
sincerely,
Kim Bruning
On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:41:27AM +0200, Erik Aas 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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