On 2/18/07, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, You assume that a central server will exist.. Maybe, but maybe not. Leave that to the guys that implement it. Thanks, GerardM
It seems to me that the biggest reason this hasn't yet been done is that people are under the mistaken impression that it has to be decentralized.
A completely decentralized peer-to-peer wiki is theoretically possible, but it's kind of one of the holy grails of computing (a decentralized peer-to-peer RDBMS). A highly centralized peer-to-peer wiki which offloads much of the bandwidth and hosting costs away from the central database, well that's already in place. The cache servers perform that function, they just happen to be run by Wikimedia also.
A decentralized system is great for university research, but a centralized system could be implemented tomorrow. Just stop blocking the live mirrors. Then start working with the mirrors to come up with a way to be more efficient for both parties.
Anthony