Topic: Demonstrate blockchain tech and help Wikipedia (Read 289 times)

This is not an ANN, I am not a dev. I just have ideas. Rip it to shreds, make fun of me, build it yourself, whatever.

WikiNode

A decentralized, real-time copy of Wikipedia stored on a blockchain.

Purpose: To help the Wikimedia Foundation achieve the goal set forth in their mission statement:

“The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally.”

by leveraging the utility of the blockchain model used by bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

The Blockchain: The WikiNode blockchain will be the full Wikipedia database itself plus adds, deletes, and edits. Consensus will occur when 51% of all nodes agree with 51% of MasterWikiNodes. The WikiMasterNodes will be controlled by entities with an interest in assuring the integrity of the content available on Wikipedia. Such MasterWikiNode entities would include The Wikimedia Foundation, public and private universities, the National Academy of Sciences, The Library of Congress, etc.

Reasoning: Wikipedia is the culmination of the total sum of human knowledge in digital format. Providing such an unprecedented resource costs a lot of money and Wikipedia relies on donations to pay for servers, electricity, etc. Wikipedia is also a community effort. Anyone is welcome to contribute content and, by the virtue of peer review, the information retained is factual and up-to-date. In this community spirit, this could accomplish 2 things: Reduce Wikipedia’s operating costs by distributing the serving of entries through the WikiNode blockchain and client, and to ensure that the distributed entries served by the WikiNodes exactly match the content hosted by Wikipedia’s own servers.

Advantage: Donate to Wikipedia by running a WikiNode, anyone running a WikiNode will have offline access to the entirety of Wikipedia (at the time of going offline) through the WikiNode Client (like a wallet)


This is not a “coin”. This will not be tradeable, nor would it have any type of token that could be exchanged. This is simply a demonstration of the power of blockchain technology to solve real-world issues outside the world of finance.