See also related discussion last year
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-November/084143.html
Personally I think this whole thing is a bad idea
* Its questionable how much this would actually save anything. Cached
anon hits are pretty cheap
* This basically doesn't do cach invalidation. Lets just have
vandalism stay around for long periods of time
* Probably makes it much easier for third parties to determine what
you are browsing. (Censorship resistant p2p networks is still an open
research problem last I checked)
* Probably makes it easier for adversaries to selectively censor
specific articles
[I haven't looked at the implementation, but I'm going to guess here]
* Questionable how it would verify content is legit. What's stopping a
malicious actor from putting random malicious js into the p2p network,
or someone replacing articles with biased versions.
--
bawolff
On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 5:00 PM, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez
<jhernandez(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi,
I saw this project and I thought it was very interesting:
https://www.wikipediap2p.org/
Basically, it makes the clients connect to each other to share pages
between each other using webrtc before going to the centralized server.
It would probably be a bad idea to convert mobile devices into network
peers given the data restrictions and quality of connections but it seems
like something very interesting for the desktop clients.
Cheers
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