On 12/28/06, Gregory Maxwell
<gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 12/28/06, Anthony <wikilegal(a)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