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Thank you so much for this. I have been trying to offline Wikipedia for months but the torrent links on the kiwix site are broken or something. They stall out for me in the first 10m everytime. The download from your link is working perfectly.

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I mean every historical source is full of one sided propaganda.

Have you ever heard the phrase “history is written by winners”?

What have keep history alive is not Wikipedia. Is the fact that multiple people from multiple POV write things down and we can find and read multiple sources.

Don’t get me wrong, Wikipedia is great, but it’s not what keeps history more or less accurate. Take into account that Wikipedia is a sum up of other sources. In order to write to Wikipedia you must quote a primary source.

And AI really doesn’t have much to do with anything here. Bad sources have existed forever, since Herodotus.

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If you think Wikipedia is the only place that stores historical knowledge, please, start thinking about how much time you’re spending online.

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