[Foundation-l] new site notice now ready
Anthony
wikilegal at inbox.org
Thu Dec 28 21:30:16 UTC 2006
On 12/28/06, Domas Mituzas <midom.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
> > (Yes, that was sarcasm. A distributed Wikipedia could be done, and it
> > could be done for less than 1.5 million. That's my belief and I'm
> > sticking with it. Just because something hasn't been done before
> > doesn't make it impossible.)
>
> I believe achieving world peace for 1.5 million is quite feasible too.
> All you have to do is to redefine meanings for 'world' and 'peace'
> somewhere.
>
Fair enough, I'm certainly not in a position to tell you you're wrong.
> Same with 'distributed Wikipedia'. It is very easy to distribute it.
> It won't necessarily work as people are used to.
>
What about just the images? They take up a lot of storage space, and
a lot of bandwidth. How much could be saved just by distributing
those?
You seem to be coming at the problem with a defeatist attitude. With
that attitude yes, it is impossible.
Anthony
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