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. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
