On 5/20/07, Robert Leverington lcarsdata@googlemail.com wrote:
On 20/05/07, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
On 5/20/07, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, What Anthony conveniently forgets is how we are going to pay for it all.
Pay for what? The stuff that's being done now? Donations are going to pay for it. For giving a datafeed to anyone in the world? The people receiving the datafeeds will pay for it. Imagine being able to get cheap or even free hosting on a multi-user server which has a live datafeed. Toolserver has given us a glimpse of the possibilites, now imagine if thousands of people had shell access.
We are not disagreeing with your ideas, I am sure they could work, but consider how much money starting up a project like that would cost. At the moment the servers for the current wikis aren't good enough - let alone thousands of other websites using who know how much storage and CPU.
All the WMF would have to do is offer a datafeed at cost. Then let someone else run the toolserver. The storage required would only need to hold a single copy of the data. CPU scale about linerally, but you could hold a lot of users on a single machine.
Hell, if the WMF will give me a datafeed at twice its cost without any restrictions on reselling it, I'll set it up myself.
Anthony