Anthony schreef:
On 12/28/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/28/06, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
(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.
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.
Hoi, To help all those that believe like Thomas, I can testify that the Wikimedia Foundation is interested in other ways of providing content. This does include providing information using peer to peer functionality. To me this is very much a long shot. But long shots can become reality the right people are behind them. I have faith in this project, I am not really involved. With P2P we may not need the bigger number of servers as we increasingly do. It is exactly this reason why the WMF is interested .. :)
Thanks, GerardM