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[Larry Sanger]

On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 kband at www.llamacom.com wrote:

> >> But for now, there's no pressing need unless and until we find chaos
> > descending on us from the lack of constant oversight.
>
> Which really means that its important for all of us, every contributor,
> to feel vested with responsibility. We are all responsible for oversight.

I agree.  I think that the Cunctator is one person you have to watch like
a hawk, however, and he of all people has no moral right to say what he is
saying here.

> > The hosting of Wikipedia I can continue to do for no charge for the
> > foreseeable future.  Even if Wikipedia traffic were to grow by a
> > factor of 10, I would be willing to absorb all the bandwidth and
> > hardware costs.  If it grows beyond a factor of 100 or 1000,
> > obviously, alternative solutions would have to be found.
>
> Speaking of which, I think it would be great if we started thinking
> about mechanisms for distributing the hosting of Wikipedia. Does
> anyone have any thoughts on how a (to some degre) distributed solution
> could work?

Frankly, this is hardly the time to bring this up.  You have a lot more
pressing issues before you.

Larry