Annother recent publication that similarly used Wikipedia as an
example to simulate the alleged benefits of a different hosting model:
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/236942031_Symbiotic_Coupling_of_P2P…
(covered in the July Wikimedia Research Newsletter)
It's by two German computer scientists who conclude that the Wikimedia
Foundation "can reduce the traffic needed for article lookups in case
of Wikipedia up to 72%" by having participants in a P2P network
storing and serving some articles from their machines, while still
also serving them from a central installation (cloud). I seem to
recall that this kind of proposal for Wikipedia was quite popular in
like the mid 2000s (when P2P was more in fashion and WMF had less
money), to the point that Brion or Tim or someone else involved with
the actual hosting wrote a rebuttal, which I can't find any more.
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 7:44 AM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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Tilman Bayer
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Wikimedia Foundation
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