From: David Gerard <dgerard@gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Bernie Innocenti <bernie@codewiz.org>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia meets git
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:36:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fbad4e140910211636hd772962x4535ccbda6faa3c7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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2009/10/21 jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com <jamesmikedupont@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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-21 23:37 UTC|newest]
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2009-10-21 19:49 ` [Foundation-l] Wikipedia meets git Bernie Innocenti
2009-10-21 20:08 ` jamesmikedupont
2009-10-21 23:36 ` David Gerard [this message]
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2009-10-21 20:31 ` [Foundation-l] " Avery Pennarun
2009-10-21 21:05 ` Nicolas Pitre
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