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santhoshtr / wikipedia-ipfs

An exploration to host Wikipedia in IPFS
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inconsistent state #3

Closed ArneBinder closed 4 years ago

ArneBinder commented 4 years ago

Problem

Currently, all internal links (to other wikipedia articles) implicitly point to newest revisions. That is to say, a revision is kind of mutible.

Expected Behaviour

The internal links in one article should point to revisions that were latest at the time when the article itself was edited i.e. when its revision was created.

Possible Solution?

Add the oldid argument with the respective id to the link targets for all relative links. This may give you sth more close to a real snapshot. Using revision cids would be even better, but I have no clue how to do that easily.

Nevertheless, thanks for this very cool progressive web app!

santhoshtr commented 4 years ago

This problem is addressed in my latest architecture outline. Each article is a linked data in a big IPLD structure identified by a CID. A CID is a snapshot of time. If we get an article "A" and it points to "B", the reader application(the way a user use this IPLD) resolves B from same IPLD with same CID.

See README.md for more information

ArneBinder commented 4 years ago

The new architecture looks very nice.