Platonides wrote:
"Domas Mituzas"wrote:
Don't take this as an insult, because I'm really not sure, but I was really joking. Building Mediawiki in javascript is a joke, which is impossible....right?. I mean, how would javascript write to the database. Maybe you were thinking I was talking about AJAX?
You haven't heard about bittorrent? There will be no need for the database!!!
Well, this was thought as a joke, but it exists! It's a mix of wiki & peer2peer. You pass to your contacts those articles you think are good and block those bad. A complete anarchy, impractical for wikipedia, we would lose our benevolent dictator ;-)
Hoi, Actually, the software for Wikipedia in a peer to peer environment has already largely been written.. The part that needs doing is the modelling of the distribution given an evolving demand for content. To do this a GRID network is available to do the emulation of the network and the algorithms involved. In order to run this emulation traffic data is needed. There is a tool that can collect our traffic data real time.. The waiting is for the implementation of all this... It can be implemented when there is a decision that such an exercise is not only of great academic interest but has also a great potential benefit.
PS this tool can also give us statistics of the traffic to our services ..
Thanks, GerardM