Hoi,
You can spend money only once. What a distributed Wikipedia brings is
redundancy in a meaningful way. Anyone can provide some space and bandwidth
in this way and when data is local, it means that the response time will be
superior.
When the data is not centrally maintained, it becomes hard to censor.
When we are to keep the "community" healthy an infusion of money by not
needing a centralised server farm means that we can spend money on
community features like proper support for Wikisource or for a user
interface that is as good as Reasonator for Wikidata.
Business as usual does not mean that business as usual is optimal.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 4 January 2016 at 07:43, Kevin Payravi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Welcome to the list, Erik! This is my first post, too.
>
> I don't think the lack of funding for server maintenance is of concern at
> all, let alone a severe threat. The 2015-16 plan
> <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2015-2016_Annual_Plan> calls for $65
> million in spending, with 40% going towards engineering (which in addition
> to the servers includes testing, improvements, updates, API work, and all
> that jazz). That leaves 60% going towards all the other stuff (management,
> legal, grants, HR, communications, etc.). Keeping the servers alive isn't a
> severe threat. The threat is keeping the Foundation and community healthy
> and active, and spending the money right to make that happen.
>
> Kevin Payravi
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> On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 2:28 AM, Kim Bruning <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Closest to what you're assking would be this new design
> > for federated wiki by Ward Cunningham:
> > http://fed.wiki.org/
> >
> > (May still have some bugs.)
> >
> > No idea if realistic to convert.
> >
> > sincerely,
> > Kim Bruning
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:41:27AM +0200, Erik Aas 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
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