2008/12/5 Gerard Meijssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> As I have indicated in the past a team at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,
> the team that includes Andrew Tannenbaum,  has been working on creating a
> peer to peer MediaWiki. Their goal is to be able to support a Wiki like the
> English language Wikipedia. They have developed algorithms that should allow
> for the kind of issues like having the data close to the readers,
> propagating changes and conflict resolution to these changes.
> The problem they have faced that did not resolve itself is to get the
> traffic data that allows them to test their algorithms against the real
> world. In the pastI have tried to get people's attention to no avail. I
> think the VU is still interested, it would be cool if this serious attempt
> at a peer to peer Wikipedia would get at least attention. There are few
> people like Andrew Tannenbaum who could be trusted to understand the issues
> involved.


They might want to talk to Wikileaks, then - they were interested in a
distributed database and they certainly get the traffic.


- d.

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