On 12/28/06, Domas Mituzas midom.lists@gmail.com wrote:
Hi!
(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.)
I believe achieving world peace for 1.5 million is quite feasible too. All you have to do is to redefine meanings for 'world' and 'peace' somewhere.
Fair enough, I'm certainly not in a position to tell you you're wrong.
Same with 'distributed Wikipedia'. It is very easy to distribute it. It won't necessarily work as people are used to.
What about just the images? They take up a lot of storage space, and a lot of bandwidth. How much could be saved just by distributing those?
You seem to be coming at the problem with a defeatist attitude. With that attitude yes, it is impossible.
Anthony