David Gerard wrote:
Your post actually started me thinking on this. A
Freenet (for
encryption and to avoid a [[:en:trusted client]] problem) or
BitTorrent (for convenient distribution with a program lots of people
have) method of distributing Wikipedia. A peer-to-peer network with
WMF as the only body supplying content files.
Erik Garrison (CC'd) looked into this in detail (and I think even worked
on a prototype) for a class project. He'd be the person to talk to about
details, downsides, and so forth.
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