Welcome to the list, Erik! This is my first post, too. I don't think the lack of funding for server maintenance is of concern at all, let alone a severe threat. The 2015-16 plan <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2015-2016_Annual_Plan> calls for $65 million in spending, with 40% going towards engineering (which in addition to the servers includes testing, improvements, updates, API work, and all that jazz). That leaves 60% going towards all the other stuff (management, legal, grants, HR, communications, etc.). Keeping the servers alive isn't a severe threat. The threat is keeping the Foundation and community healthy and active, and spending the money right to make that happen.
Kevin Payravi W: www.kevinpayravi.com E: kevinpayr...@gmail.com P: (330) 554 - 3397 On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 2:28 AM, Kim Bruning <k...@bruning.xs4all.nl> wrote: > Closest to what you're assking would be this new design > for federated wiki by Ward Cunningham: > http://fed.wiki.org/ > > (May still have some bugs.) > > No idea if realistic to convert. > > sincerely, > Kim Bruning > > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:41:27AM +0200, Erik Aas wrote: > > Hello, > > > > this is my first post to this list. I think Wikipedia is a great project > > and am impressed by how well it works. It seems the (lack of) funding of > > the project is one of the more severe threats to its continued success. > > Since (I assume) the biggest cost is the maintenance of servers, I wonder > > if there are there any plans of making Wikipedia decentralised. > > > > Let me elaborate. I'm thinking of a system where many users each would > > store a small part of the encyclopedia. A user wanting to look up or edit > > an article connects to another user who has a copy of that article. When > an > > article is updated the update is sent to all other users (that are > online) > > responsible for storing that article. > > > > Are there any efforts to accomplish this? Would it be feasible? > > > > Best, > > Erik > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > -- > [Non-pgp mail clients may show pgp-signature as attachment] > gpg (www.gnupg.org) Fingerprint for key FEF9DD72 > 5ED6 E215 73EE AD84 E03A 01C5 94AC 7B0E FEF9 DD72 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
