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		xnyhps on March 5, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Peerwiki: all of Wikipedia on BitTorrent 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.

placeybordeaux on March 5, 2015 | [–]

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

basiliothecat on March 5, 2015 | | [–]

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

slaman on March 5, 2015 | [–]

this breaks the bittorrent.

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