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From what i've heard from people managing the hosting and development of Wikipedia, this (using a P2P hosting solution) is mentioned very often, but very imprac
by huskyr 10y ago
From what i've heard from people managing the hosting and development of Wikipedia, this (using a P2P hosting solution) is mentioned very often, but very impractical to put in real world use. Hosting Wikipedia is quite cheap: most of the content is text and images, which lends itself very well for caching. Making sure people can edit it at high frequency and the transition to mobile use are far more complex, and not the things that P2P distribution would solve.