"Domas Mituzas"wrote:
Don't
take this as an insult, because I'm really not sure, but I
was really
joking. Building Mediawiki in javascript is a joke, which is
impossible....right?. I mean, how would javascript write to the
database.
Maybe you were thinking I was talking about AJAX?
You haven't heard about bittorrent? There will be no need for the
database!!!
Well, this was thought as a joke, but it exists! It's a mix of wiki &
peer2peer. You pass to your contacts those articles you think are good
and block those bad.
A complete anarchy, impractical for wikipedia, we would lose our benevolent
dictator ;-)
Hoi,
Actually, the software for Wikipedia in a peer to peer environment has
already largely been written.. The part that needs doing is the
modelling of the distribution given an evolving demand for content. To
do this a GRID network is available to do the emulation of the network
and the algorithms involved. In order to run this emulation traffic data
is needed. There is a tool that can collect our traffic data real time..
The waiting is for the implementation of all this... It can be
implemented when there is a decision that such an exercise is not only
of great academic interest but has also a great potential benefit.
PS this tool can also give us statistics of the traffic to our services ..
Thanks,
GerardM