Hoi, As I have indicated in the past a team at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the team that includes Andrew Tannenbaum, has been working on creating a peer to peer MediaWiki. Their goal is to be able to support a Wiki like the English language Wikipedia. They have developed algorithms that should allow for the kind of issues like having the data close to the readers, propagating changes and conflict resolution to these changes.
The problem they have faced that did not resolve itself is to get the traffic data that allows them to test their algorithms against the real world. In the pastI have tried to get people's attention to no avail. I think the VU is still interested, it would be cool if this serious attempt at a peer to peer Wikipedia would get at least attention. There are few people like Andrew Tannenbaum who could be trusted to understand the issues involved. Thanks, GerardM
2008/12/5 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com
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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