Cp123127

Proposal for editing Peer to Peer

Major edits

• The Distributed hash tables section is much too technical. This should be left to the actual article to explain. On the peer to peer article, it should only serve to put peer to peer in more context. Additionally there is already a very good mention of distributed hash tables in Structured systems and I'm not sure whether that should serve as the only mention of DHTs in the article. Perhaps this section should be moved to the actual DHT page.
• The Unstructured systems section in marginally inaccurate, as it says little about the bandwidth inefficiencies of flooding the network with a query, and makes no mention of Gossip protocol, though it is very relevant.
• Social and economic impact is a little lacking and needs to be expanded.
• Applications needs to be updated with new, relevant software using p2p, because there are not many new pieces of software there now.

Minor edits

• The Advantages and Weaknesses section needs more structuring, and needs to be separated out into individual advantages and weaknesses.
• The introduction lacks certain citations, uses unprofessional words: "the first P2P killer application", basic grammar mistakes, etc.
• Perhaps there should be a new section under Architecture of P2P systems named "Hybrid systems", as after the portion on unstructured systems, it names hybrid systems but does not create a separate section for them.
• Many of the projects referred to in Applications are not notable enough to warrant inclusion.
• The article contains a couple of citation needed tags which need to be cleaned up.
• Rename Peer-to-Peer (meme) to Social peer-to-peer processes, as it fits better

These are all great ideas for improving the peer-to-peer article! I suggest you discuss your ideas on the article talk page, because that's what it's there for. Especially if you plan on any major changes to the article. You should always propose major article changes on an article talk page so other users have a chance to look over your ideas and discuss them. --Geniac (talk) 04:26, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

Hey the major and minor edits look great. Considering there hasn't been any feedback on the Peer2Peer talk page, I say you go ahead and draft the edits, post them on the article talk page just to be safe, then go ahead and start editing.Atavel (talk) 06:19, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

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Peer-to-peer advice

Dear Cp123127,

We are working on a group project for our “Online Communities” class at Cornell University, where we are aiming to become active contributors in the Wikipedia community. We have picked the “Pee-to-Peer” page and saw that you have been a contributor in the past. We would like to propose the following restructuring of the article and would appreciate any feedback/advice you have for us:

1. Historical Development 2. Current Applications a. Communications

   Other P2P Applications

b. Content Delivery c. File Sharing Networks

       i. Streaming Media

3. Architecture

   a. Routing and Resource Recovery
       i. Hybrid Models
       ii. Structured Networks
       iii. Unstructured Networks

   b. Security and Trust
       i. Routing Attacks
       ii. Corrupted Data and Malware
   c. Creating more resilient and scalable computer networks
   d. Distributed storage and search

4. Social Implications a. Demographics and Usage stats b. Incentivizing resource sharing and cooperation c. Privacy and Anonymity d. Economic Implications

   i. Music/Film

5. Political Implications

   a. Network Politics
   b. Network neutrality
   c. Intellectual Property law and illegal sharing

6. Current Research

   a. Future Trends

Please let us know what you think about this restructuring as a way to improve the article. We will also be looking to add sources and information. We welcome any feedback! Thank you!

AlyssaG92 (talk) 21:15, 28 September 2013 (UTC)