On 12/28/06, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:

On 12/28/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:

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On 12/28/06, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:

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(Yes, that was sarcasm. A distributed Wikipedia could be done, and it could be done for less than 1.5 million. That's my belief and I'm sticking with it. Just because something hasn't been done before doesn't make it impossible.)

Then don't let those who say it can't be done stop you from doing it.

As I've said, it *will* happen. The forks *will* come, and one of them *will* pick up on the idea. Why don't *I* do it now, today? Well, I don't have anywhere *near* 1.5 million, for starters. I also don't have those all important wikipedia domain names.

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Show us the code.

If you're really interested in seeing this achieved, contact me off list. This list isn't really the place to discuss the details, especially as the management of the foundation isn't interested.

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(although when you have solved the underlying issues, there are folks at major database companies who will likely want to pay you lots to apply your solutions to their database products... and you'll lose interest in this wiki stuff. :) )

I doubt it.

Anthony,

Do you have an architectural design concept specification for this distributed wiki, including dataflow paths and consistency model?

What is your background in distributed computing programming and architecture, and database architecture issues?

Thanks.