Apr
2009
I noticed this several days ago. As I am trying to read things on wikipedia, I get “No response” error. I have to refresh the page for several time in order to access the article that interest me. Its funny that such a big site has problems like this. The incredible project that is wikipedia has incredible stats (see Alexa). Imagine if 8% of web surfers would browse your site, what would happen to your host :).
Anyway, I think this period is usually very full with school projects and stuff. A lot of people are reading articles in order to gather knowledge that would help in completing their projects. Wikipedia becomes more and more specialized on each topic. I was impressed and happy to read stuff about artificial intelligence that I am researching right now for my Ph.D thesis. I can almost see where this project is going - the ultimate knowledge base of man kind. I found several studies related to using Wikipedia as basis for artificial intelligence. Hopefully, this site will emerge into a entity that will offer full classification of any kind of human concept, making an AI-complete problem a reality. So I think the first step now is for them to buy better servers.
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