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

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

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

David Gerard wrote: > "Imagine if Wikipedia could be mirrored locally, run on a local > mirror, where content was pushed and pulled, GPG-Digitally-signed; > content shared via peer-to-peer instead of overloading the Wikipedia > servers." The idea of P2P distribution is good. The idea of using Git

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 > > t

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 approxim

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. Anywa

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 Engl

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? H

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)

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 shou

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

I've looked in to this a little but still in quite a pie in the sky way, I made the sqlite db layer with the idea of it being simpler to incorporate into a client based "mediawikilite" app, I made some notes at these articles: http://www.organicdesign.co.nz/MediaWikiLite http://www.organic

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

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:20 PM, David Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://advogato.org/article/994.html > > Peer-to-peer git repositories. Imagine a MediaWiki with the data > stored in git, and updates distributed peer-to-peer. > > "Imagine if Wikipedia could be mirrored locally, run on a lo

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

2008/12/4 Chad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > If the Database class wasn't so mysql-centric and all > queries have been abstracted, the child database class > could, in theory, retrieve data from any type of source, > as long as it returns the format expected by the > software, Sql results. > This is all

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

If the Database class wasn't so mysql-centric and all queries have been abstracted, the child database class could, in theory, retrieve data from any type of source, as long as it returns the format expected by the software, Sql results. This is all in theory though, since its a pie in the sky :)

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

http://advogato.org/article/994.html Peer-to-peer git repositories. Imagine a MediaWiki with the data stored in git, and updates distributed peer-to-peer. "Imagine if Wikipedia could be mirrored locally, run on a local mirror, where content was pushed and pulled, GPG-Digitally-signed; content sha