A Decentralized Wiki Engine for Collaborative Wikipedia Hosting

Authors: Guido Urdaneta, Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen
Source: In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technology (WEBIST), March 2007.

Abstract

This paper presents the design of a decentralized system for hosting large-scale wiki web sites like Wikipedia, using a collaborative approach. Our design focuses on distributing the pages that compose the wiki across a network of nodes provided by individuals and organizations willing to collaborate in hosting the wiki. We present algorithms for placing the pages so that the capacity of the nodes is not exceeded and the load is balanced, and algorithms for routing client requests to the appropriate nodes. We also address fault tolerance and security issues.

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Bibtex Entry

@InProceedings{,
  author = 	 {Guido Urdaneta and Guillaume Pierre and 
                  Maarten van Steen},
  title = 	 {A Decentralized Wiki Engine for Collaborative 
                  Wikipedia Hosting},
  month = 	 mar,
  year = 	 {2007},
  booktitle =    {Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies},
  note = 	 {\url{http://www.globule.org/publi/DWECWH_webist2007.html}}
}