Peerwiki: all of Wikipedia on BitTorrent

Re:Peerwiki: all of Wikipedia on BitTorrent by CHY872 on Thursday March 05, 2015 @07:40AM (#9150331)

Pretty sure that it's: When you want to go on a wikipedia article, it requests the file from other peers in the network using the bittorrent protocol. It's a copy of Wikipedia placed on bittorrent, presumably with some semantics for article updates.

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Re:Peerwiki: all of Wikipedia on BitTorrent by xnyhps on Thursday March 05, 2015 @08:16AM (#9150498)

It looks like it uses a single Wikipedia dump from over a year ago. Would be cool if it supported deltas somehow, so the network doesn't split when a new dump is used.

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Re:Peerwiki: all of Wikipedia on BitTorrent by placeybordeaux on Thursday March 05, 2015 @12:57PM (#9152513)

Bittorrent doesn't have support for that, but you could publish torrents that just host a full version of all the modified pages.

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Re:Peerwiki: all of Wikipedia on BitTorrent by basiliothecat on Thursday March 05, 2015 @01:33PM (#9152804)

Found out recently that there's a cool project underway to make a distributed wiki - http://wardcunningham.github.io/.

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Re:Peerwiki: all of Wikipedia on BitTorrent by slaman on Thursday March 05, 2015 @12:53PM (#9152470)

this breaks the bittorrent.

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