Fred Bauder wrote:
On Jun 25, 2006, at 12:45 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
We could have some servers in Africa... There is some reluctance of the developers to overcome.. We could hope that the project of the Vrije Universiteit bears fruit.. and help it where we can. With this project successful, it would mean a peer to peer MediaWiki whereby content is near the people that want it.
Ok, Vrije Universiteit is in the Netherlands. What project do they have which relates to Africa?
Fred
Hoi, They are building an application that allows the hosting of Wikipedia content in a peer to peer basis. When successful it means that people can opt to run a Wikipedia peer on their hardware. This peer network would know what information is in demand and distribute it accordingly.. So when a certain topic is in the news .. the network would react by bringing more copies of the data to where it is in demand. This would overcome among other things the current problems with peering agreements between ISP's.
They are at the stage where they need real life (anonomised) traffic details to test the distribution of traffic in a big private GRID network. Thanks, GerardM