Wikipedia-IPFS: An exploration to host Wikipedia in IPFS

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30 pointsbpierre5 comments

> Thousands of edits happens every day. New articles are created every time. The pre-rendered HTML pages are not really a convenient representation of knowledge, at least it is not convenient for computing

I don't see how this is true. The issue with Wikipedia is that they built their platform on SQL, but that doesn't make it more convenient for computing. In fact, in many cases it does the opposite. There is nothing stopping someone from building an alternative Wikipedia-type system that renders pages and publishes records on IPFS. It's just Wikipedia wasn't designed with it in mind.

I think you're on to something. IPFS needs to replace SQL somehow,the front end is a non-issue. You'll need authentication to validate everything if you want to have any levelnof moderation.

Why would IPFS replace SQL versus being a target for rendering from SQL? SQL gives you all of the power of a relational, transactional data store while IPFS gives you addressing permanence. The power then lies in your rendering engine to do the heavy lifting.

Because SQL is not decentralized.

Interesting... contributing to your comment Wikipedia also uses SPARQL.

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