Hoi,
The English Wikipedia is used all over the world; the districution of
requests for content can be regional and in certain cases will prove to be
regional. The chances of edit conflicts is of a different order in
en.wikipedia. Wikileaks is unlikely to approximate the traffic we have in
the English Wikipedia.
You do not need to have all the data to evaluate the functionality that has
been developed. But the data has to be statistically relevant enough to be
able to understand the issues as they occur.
My point is that the VU has a need for data and they have so far been
ignored even though I made my attempts to get them connected.
Thanks,
GerardM
2008/12/5 David Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 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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