P2P

This page is meant to be as a first draft of a system, which provides articles (from Wikipedia) in peer-to-peer networks.

P2Pedia

The idea behind a P2Pedia (P2P + Wikipedia) is, that the technical goods of some allready existing and maybe some future networks should be used to provide the collected knowledge to all who can't or won't reach the official main servers. Their would be also an increasing download-speed possible, especially for big medias or preloading and maybe the official http servers would be less used, so their reachability could be increased. According to the philosophy of a Wiki, the ability to get edited by all, a decentralized editing without redaction, the publishing of the data would be also decentralized.

Client

It is aimed to use existing open source p2p-clients to download articles, but maybe this is only possible through a modification of that software. This could be possible through providing modules or patches, which will give them the ability to download these articles. It is also advisable to contact the developer communities of such software.

- maybe a new software will created(best method?), which uses both connection to main servers(to identifier actual article, search, edit, download text) and connection to p2p-networks(to download media and preloading)

Editing

not possible - main servers must have the actual version, so editing is only possible at the main servers

Fileformat

- situation: Existing p2p-networks identifier a file by a content based hash-code and most of them are searchable through filename (including extension), but not by content. Some software(Shareaza, ...?) is able to search and/or identifier files by header(file size, ...) and meta(movie size, ...) data.

- needs: - wikiidentifier(en, de, meta) - title - version/date - keywords, categories

Information used to identifier an actual article

If you call for an article in the Wikipedia, you need only the title of that article. The server will give you the actual version of the article.

- situation: in p2p-networks there are many different versions of the same article(with same title)

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Links

- maybe have to be modified - have to contain identifier for articles(see above)

Networks

Freenet

- slow

- anonym

Gnutella 2

- fast

Torrent

- fast