From: David Gerard Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:36:59 GMT Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia meets git Message-ID: In-Reply-To: 2009/10/21 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.