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