I hardly write e-mails and even post to the mailing-list, so
if I did something wrong, just let me know. Also, I am well
known for terrible speeling and non-English grammer, please
excuse them too.
I have some proposal to the wikipedia system.
I don't have any worry about the encyclopedical side of
wikipedia. Both quality and coverage have been improving
constantly. It is just fine. But recently I started to worry
about technological side or hosting stuff.
While contents of wikipedia are open-conent and it is nice,
hosting server and database are not. As we all know the
current server is inadequate to support the huge traffic and
it seems going to be worse and worse.
Now then, here is my proposal. Can we distribute database
and related stuff? Each mimi-wikipedia contains certain
articles and provide both displaying and editing service.
Search querys are sent to all of mimi-wikipedian then put
the results together in the main server and return it.
The scale of mimi-wikipedia may vary, say 100 artcles to
possibly 10,000. I think there are many people who are
willing to provide diskspaces, including me.
The problem is set up. Surely the current dependency hell
makes hard to host mimi-wikipedia, particularly on windows-
based servers.
Another problem is what if some mimi-wikipedian is down? For
financially, lost of personal interest, whatever reason. My
solution is duplication.
Also this duplication scheme makes wikipedia more reliable
and easier to extend the capacity in terms of hosting.
I don't know if this kind of system is fesible. I don't see
such a site. But if we agree the idea is good, why don't we
try it?
I agree with the guy who suggested pure wikipedia software
written in C (I am sorry I can't remember his name).
Also, if there was some similar proposal before, excuse me.