Wikipedia is always asking for donations and I'm guessing most of it would be to handle their massive hosting and bandwidth bills (?)<p>So wouldn't it make sense to ask people to donate their CPU / bandwidth as compared to money?<p>A lot of people like myself will gladly install a Seti@home app that helps host it like a P2P network (there have been plenty of projects implementing decentralized hosting using browser extensions also)<p>This would make hosting practically free and redundant.<p>I'm sure I'm not the first person to think off this? Why isn't it a good idea?
This was actually one of the first proofs of concept for IPFS, a decentralized file hosting platform built by Juan Benet at of Protocol Labs.<p><a href="https://blog.ipfs.io/24-uncensorable-wikipedia/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.ipfs.io/24-uncensorable-wikipedia/</a>
How would readers access Wikipedia in a P2P network? If they need to install a specialized piece of software, that goes against Wikipedia's goal to be as widely accessible as possible.