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Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia meets git

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DGDavid Gerard <dgerard@gmail.com>
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Oct 21, 2009, 23:36 UTC
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2009/10/21 jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com <jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com>:
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> 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.
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  1. Bernie InnocentiOct 21, 2009
  2. jamesmikedupont@googlemail.comOct 21, 2009
  3. David GerardOct 21, 2009
  4. Avery PennarunOct 21, 2009
  5. Nicolas PitreOct 21, 2009
  6. jamesmikedupont-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.orgOct 22, 2009

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