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?
It strikes me, from a technical point of view, as very unlikely that
distributed hosting will ever be the right solution. Distributed
funding, maybe, but distributed hosting just really doesn't make
sense.
I know it's rather complicated, but vast amounts of comp sci research
are going into the development of all kinds of distributed networks
(under the buzzword p2p), and it makes perfect sense for a project like
this, *if* the tech actually existed. I know it's pretty blue sky
now, but it does make sense if you ignore the fact that it would be
freaking difficult to implement.
'Swhy I prefer theoretical physics to engineering. Let someone else
work out the fussy details.
:)
-tc