WikipediaP2P

I tested it in Chromium really quick. I have one small remark: when opening an article obtained by a peer (a green link) in a new tab, it just opens it in the same tab.

Re: WikipediaP2P

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Post by giosch » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 8:50 AM UTC

robius wrote: post #3

wouldn't cloudflare be more effective?

Cloudflare is not free

Re: WikipediaP2P

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Post by rfrank » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 8:51 AM UTC

I feel like I should contribute more than a pun, but this is a missed opportunity for wikip2pedia.org. The domain is available.

Re: WikipediaP2P

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Post by gield » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 8:52 AM UTC

For the sake of testing it, I have opened nearly every link in the introduction of the Nikolas Tesla [0] page, the one used in the example. It should now be possible to at least obtain all those articles through me, and hopefully also through other people.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla

Re: WikipediaP2P

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 8:53 AM UTC

robius wrote: post #3

wouldn't cloudflare be more effective?

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Re: WikipediaP2P

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Post by MrWonderful » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 8:58 AM UTC

giosch wrote: post #5

robius wrote: post #3

wouldn't cloudflare be more effective?

Cloudflare is not free

Yes, it actually is, I use it for a simple website I use. It actually decreases the load on it. But, you lack a lot of features and you can increase it. It cost like $20 or more per month up into $100 per month it depends I think. But, they probably don't want to go this route.

https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/

Re: WikipediaP2P

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Post by teekert » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 9:02 AM UTC

I've been wondering, would one reach the same principle if one would pin the root folder of wikipedia on their own server using IPFS and then if wikipedia would point their domainname to the ipfs.io gateway with a hash for that folder, would Wikipedia auto update on my server and would IPFS provide the load balancing/p2p part?

Or am I understanding IPFS or the ipfs.io gateway wrong? Does everything go through the ipfs.io server in that case? Or is it still distributed/torrent-like?