Re: [Wikitech-l] GitTorrent (pie-in-the-sky post)

Hoi, As I have indicated in the past a team at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the team that includes Andrew Tannenbaum, has been working on creating a peer to peer MediaWiki. Their goal is to be able to support a Wiki like the English language Wikipedia. They have developed algorithms that

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikiEN-l] Suggestion on how referencing system could be improved

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 3:29 AM, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Remember the dot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've found that neatly spacing references does wonders for keeping wikitext readable. For example: Yes, but then the text

Re: [Wikitech-l] GitTorrent (pie-in-the-sky post)

2008/12/5 Gerard Meijssen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As I have indicated in the past a team at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the team that includes Andrew Tannenbaum, has been working on creating a peer to peer MediaWiki. Their goal is to be able to support a Wiki like the English language

Re: [Wikitech-l] GitTorrent (pie-in-the-sky post)

On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 07:09:36PM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: It takes about ~10 minutes to create a mwdump to git converter using git-fast-import. I did this for amusement once in order to run git-blame on articles. How fast was the git import? How many articles did you try to import? How

Re: [Wikitech-l] GitTorrent (pie-in-the-sky post)

Hoi, The English Wikipedia is used all over the world; the districution of requests for content can be regional and in certain cases will prove to be regional. The chances of edit conflicts is of a different order in en.wikipedia. Wikileaks is unlikely to approximate the traffic we have in the

Re: [Wikitech-l] GitTorrent (pie-in-the-sky post)

The problem they have faced that did not resolve itself is to get the traffic data that allows them to test their algorithms against the real world. In the pastI have tried to get people's attention to no avail Can you please stop whining? We've been sending data to VU for ages. Anyway, I

Re: [Wikitech-l] GitTorrent (pie-in-the-sky post)

Gerard Meijssen schreef: Hoi, The English Wikipedia is used all over the world; the districution of requests for content can be regional and in certain cases will prove to be regional. The chances of edit conflicts is of a different order in en.wikipedia. Wikileaks is unlikely to approximate

Re: [Wikitech-l] GitTorrent (pie-in-the-sky post)

Hoi, I brought Domas and Guillaume into contact based on this reply, Guillaume has already answered and I hope that finally we get some resolution. Thanks, GerardM 2008/12/5 Domas Mituzas [EMAIL PROTECTED] The problem they have faced that did not resolve itself is to get the traffic

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikiEN-l] Suggestion on how referencing system could be improved

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gregory Maxwell wrote: Instead I propose: Have javascript mediate the edit box so that inline references are converted to little red [R] text, moving your cursor into the [R] area by clicking or arrowkeying causes it to expand to display the full

Re: [Wikitech-l] GitTorrent (pie-in-the-sky post)

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Juliano F. Ravasi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ironically, the per-file revision control model employed by now-obsolescent VCSes like CVS and RCS would fit Wikipedia better than Git (emphasis on revision control *model*, not software). ...because RCS tracks one file