Penny saved is penny earned : a peer-to-peer approach to alleviate costs of operating Wikipedia

• Main Author: Kansal, Sonakshi.
• Other Authors: Anwitaman Datta
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Information systems
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/40065
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A fundamental problem that confronts website hosting is to manage the expenses incurred in running servers and paying for bandwidth consumed by visitors. Large volumes of traffic slow down websites and often readers cannot access the content they requested. Wikipedia, a free online encyclope...