Publicly available factual information is a threat to an authoritarian regime
To quote something from lefty blogs in the W era: “Reality has a clear leftwing bias”
We have to protect Wikipedia. We have to.
Does Wikipedia receive federal funding? If not, people can shut right up.
They’re pretty flush with cash still. Trump can go after them, but for what? They’d need more corruption than they have in the judicial system today. They’ll get there eventually, but they don’t have it yet.
Is there any way to decentralize Wikipedia? P2P wikipedia? Because that seems like the best long term solution to this.
Yes, start with a mirror. A download is enough for yourself, but mirrors retain what is needed to rebuild the database. You will meed a lot of storage
I torrented the text of english wikipedia one time and deleted it a few weeks after to make space for my Monero node. What I meant by “decentralized Wikipedia” would be not only the files being stored in multiple locations but there also being some sort of system (including moderation I suppose) to broadcast edits across the network
Wikipedia over IPFS, it seems to be a work in progress, but its something
All you selfhosters out there, this is the cue to make your mirrors
Got my snapshot from Jan.
It’s only 20gb.
You need an offline viewer. That’s a snap /flat hub install. Kiwix I believe
Says ~110gb for all of english version via kiwix. Did you exclude images or something?
Just started, great suggestion.
I can’t believe this shit. 2023 me wouldn’t believe I’d be doing half of the things I’m doing now.
No need
Install the free offline reader software from here
Then grab what content you want from https://dumps.wikimedia.org/kiwix/zim/
Here’s English Wikipedia, with pictures from 2024 https://dumps.wikimedia.org/kiwix/zim/wikipedia/wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2024-01.zim
names with maxi have all the pictures names with mini few pictures and abridged content names with nopic have no pictures and abridged content
if it says science or basketball, it’s just things flagged as science or things flagged as basketball.
