Hi Erik, This might be interesting to you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HaeB/Timeline_of_distributed_Wikipedia_proposals
*Edward Saperia* Founder Newspeak House <http://www.nwspk.com> email <[email protected]> • facebook <http://www.facebook.com/edsaperia> • twitter <http://www.twitter.com/edsaperia> • 07796955572 133-135 Bethnal Green Road, E2 7DG On 23 September 2015 at 09:41, Erik Aas <[email protected]> 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 > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
