[Foundation-l] Wikipedia meets git

Wed Oct 21 23:36:59 UTC 2009

2009/10/21 jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com>:

> most people are working on very small subsets of the data. Very few
> people will want to have all the data, think about getting all the
> versions from all the git repos, it would be the same.
> My idea is for smaller chapters who want to get started easily, or
> towns, regions to host their own branches of relevant data.
> Given a world full of such servers, the sum would be great but the
> individual branches needed at one time would be small.

A distributed backend is a nice idea anyway - imagine a meteor hitting
the Florida data centres ...

And there are third-party users who could benefit from a highly
distributed backend, such as Wikileaks.

This thread should probably move to mediawiki-l ...

- d.