I've looked in to this a little but still in quite a pie in the sky way, I made the sqlite db layer with the idea of it being simpler to incorporate into a client based "mediawikilite" app, I made some notes at these articles: http://www.organicdesign.co.nz/MediaWikiLite http://www.organicdesign.co.nz/PeerPedia A lite mediawiki could then work as a peer and sqlite integrate with a distributed storage system such as a DHT or with Git. Perhaps interwiki could be used as an addressing scheme to separate different wikis within the common distributed storage space?
David Gerard wrote:
http://advogato.org/article/994.html
Peer-to-peer git repositories. Imagine a MediaWiki with the data stored in git, and updates distributed peer-to-peer.
"Imagine if Wikipedia could be mirrored locally, run on a local mirror, where content was pushed and pulled, GPG-Digitally-signed; content shared via peer-to-peer instead of overloading the Wikipedia servers."
This would certainly go some way to solving the "a good dump is all but impossible" problem ...
(so, anyone hacked up a git backend for MediaWiki revisions rather than MySQL? :-) )
- d.
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