Good news and fun fact, the entirety of Wikipedia can be downloaded quite easily.
this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2025
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They literally don't generate any revenue. Wikipedia is quite literally the definition of a non-profit.
Also, trump is barred from running non-profits due to fraud in NY, I feel like that should disqualify him from making these kinds of decisions.
Wikipedia, archive.org, and any similar essential services ought to be migrating their hosting and organizational headquarters to outside the US ASAP.
That's not something you can just do. All of there employees are Americans.
It would be better if they were spread across many countries so that one place couldn't cause a problem.
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"
To quote Stephen Colbert.
Was he the originator? I thought he was cribbing DailyKos or similar...
I don't know. It is widely attributed to the him however.
Stephen Colbert, The Him
I only just realized that there is an extra word in my comment. I read it as a reference I didn't get.
If there's ever been a himmer him than him I don't want to know him
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?
Yes, they’re are different versions. Maxi is the 110GB one, there is also a nopic version that is quite a bit lighter.
We have to protect Wikipedia. We have to.
If they take it down we'll make it again.
Gotta back it up
We need a federated Wikipedia (Fedipedia)
Why?
I feel like that is a mixed bag
It really isn't bad as is
Does Wikipedia receive federal funding? If not, people can shut right up.
I think it's in the single digit percentages of their funding.
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
that's actually pretty cool, thanks!
I'll have to stop you right there, mate. You are reinventing blockchain.
How would that work?