On 10 Jul 2002, at 4:46, Jimmy Wales wrote:
But I know that this can not continue indefinitely,
particularly if
the current situation leads to mistrust.
Maybe a good way to progress would be to alter the software so
that wikipedia can be run over multiple machines (at the rate
wikipedia is growing at the moment it'll need to be able to be
distributed/load balanced sometime anyway), with one machine
handling the editing and the others just mirroring the static
content/search/stats pages.
That way the machines running wikipedia wouldn't be under the
control of one organization/company, this also has the advantage
that the cost of hardware/bandwidth/etc would be distributed.
As for the donations, it might be possible to bring wikipedia under
the wings of an already non-profit organization which everyone
trusts (maybe FSF, FSF Europe, Ibiblio, or one of the open source
education groups) that way we could get tax-free donations without
the problem of setting up our own non-profit.
Imran
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