2009/10/21 jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com <jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com>:

> most people are working on very small subsets of the data. Very few
> people will want to have all the data, think about getting all the
> versions from all the git repos, it would be the same.
> My idea is for smaller chapters who want to get started easily, or
> towns, regions to host their own branches of relevant data.
> Given a world full of such servers, the sum would be great but the
> individual branches needed at one time would be small.


A distributed backend is a nice idea anyway - imagine a meteor hitting
the Florida data centres ...

And there are third-party users who could benefit from a highly
distributed backend, such as Wikileaks.

This thread should probably move to mediawiki-l ...


- d.

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