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Re:Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people t... by roelschroeven on Monday May 31, 2021 @06:44AM (#27342606)
As opposed to Wikipedia where the content is written by third parties, and Wikimedia largely focuses (or should focus) on hosting the resulting content?
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Re:Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people t... by kaba0 on Monday May 31, 2021 @08:24AM (#27343336)
How often is archived pages edited? It is a very different problem hosting static and dynamic data.
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Re:Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people t... by denton-scratch on Monday May 31, 2021 @01:03PM (#27346066)
An "archive" is a repository of material that can't be edited. Editing archives is a kind of fraud.
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Re:Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people t... by kaba0 on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @02:29AM (#27365569)
That’s my point. You can easily cache static data, it’s easier to scale, etc. Wikipedia is semi-static at most.
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