Every time the donation bar for wikipedia comes up, I think about making a project like this to reduce their bandwidth and server costs. I have no idea if something ad-hoc would work for their workload (they may have way too long of tail).
On the other hand, I think a lot of people would be willing to permanently donate some upload bandwidth and processing power to wikipedia if it were feasible to take advantage of it.
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Every time the donation bar for wikipedia comes up, I think about making a project like this to reduce their bandwidth and server costs. I have no idea if something ad-hoc would work for their workload (they may have way too long of tail).
On the other hand, I think a lot of people would be willing to permanently donate some upload bandwidth and processing power to wikipedia if it were feasible to take advantage of it.