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Re: WikipediaP2P

#13
post #7

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

Doesn't seems to work for me, all links are orange.

Re: WikipediaP2P

#16
I remember thinking about a similar concept a few years back. It would be good to have a p2p archive of human knowledge for end of the world scenarios.

The problem is Bittorrent isn't the protocol for it, it doesn't allow incremental changes. You also don't want the complete history like git, you want something that passes a diff around.

It would be great to have a p2p network with Wikipedia, a load of academic papers, maps and recipes, which anybody with a computer could contribute drive space to storing.

Re: WikipediaP2P

#17

I remember thinking about a similar concept a few years back. It would be good to have a p2p archive of human knowledge for end of the world scenarios. The problem is Bittorrent isn't the protocol for it, it doesn't allow incremental changes. You also don't want the complete history like git, you want something that passes a diff around. It would be great to have a p2p network with Wikipedia, a load of academic paper…

The database dumps are surprisingly small - can store the whole thing on 2 TB hard drive incl media - or 64GB SD card if you just want the SQL database with text and metadata

Re: WikipediaP2P

#18

I remember thinking about a similar concept a few years back. It would be good to have a p2p archive of human knowledge for end of the world scenarios. The problem is Bittorrent isn't the protocol for it, it doesn't allow incremental changes. You also don't want the complete history like git, you want something that passes a diff around. It would be great to have a p2p network with Wikipedia, a load of academic paper…

The database dumps are surprisingly small - can store the whole thing on 2 TB hard drive incl media - or 64GB SD card if you just want the SQL database with text and metadata

Re: WikipediaP2P

#19
post #7

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

It burns CPU like crazy for me. Would not use it on battery.

Re: WikipediaP2P

#20

I remember thinking about a similar concept a few years back. It would be good to have a p2p archive of human knowledge for end of the world scenarios. The problem is Bittorrent isn't the protocol for it, it doesn't allow incremental changes. You also don't want the complete history like git, you want something that passes a diff around. It would be great to have a p2p network with Wikipedia, a load of academic paper…

The database dumps are surprisingly small - can store the whole thing on 2 TB hard drive incl media - or 64GB SD card if you just want the SQL database with text and metadata

If you factor in the overhead of p2p, it is probably cheaper, if operating systems come with a few hundred MB of the more popular Wikipedia pages.
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