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MAGA Puts Wikipedia in Its Crosshairs (gizmodo.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 86 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

Fyi everyone: you can download the entirety of Wikipedia yourself from kiwix and it's only about 50gb for the whole thing, 100 with all images.

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  • [–] 19 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    got a link or instructions? i’ll do it tomorrow as the next step on my self hosting journey.

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  • [–] 25 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    Docker setup instructions: github.com/kiwix/kiwix-tools/docker/server/README.md

    Download zim files from library.kiwix.org via direct download, torrent or magnet.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    thank yewwww.

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    There is also apps like Aard2 that allow you to have all of wikipedia (no images duh) offline on your phone. https://github.com/itkach/aard2-android

    Its a general dictionary type app so it supports things other than wikipedia too. There is a link to the dictionary files in the readme on that github, but it can be confusing.

    If you have 23GB of space and your storage isnt fat32 formatted: https://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/aarddict/enwiki/enwiki20250801-slob/

    If it is fat32 then you gotta download it in 4GB chunks: https://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/aarddict/enwiki/enwiki20250801-vol-slob/

    The downside to this is that i (you?) often want very recent fresh info from wikipedia and this obviously doesnt work well for that because it doesnt support updating in a way where you only have to download the changes. If somebody knows of an app that supports this, where you only have to download a couple MB of changes every day to keep the entire thing up to date let me know.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    sweet.

    alas, internet friend, i’m old enuf to have had printed (gasp) encyclopedias purchased new in 1985, so i can cope with static data just fine.

    i am curious, nonetheless - i see these are dated pretty recently. are these ftps updated with some kind of regularity so i can continue to dl them up until all knowledge gets banned for being too inclusive and woke and something something?

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    Always glad to share cool projects :)

    If you go up to the parent directory of the links i sent it shows the last couple versions (20250801, 20250601, 20250201, 20241201) so it gets updated every few months yes. I believe the URL has stayed the same for the past decade or so too, so it should be fairly easy to automate that even.

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  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    it will be out of date in an hour

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago

    Any entry that is changing hourly (or even monthly) is probably not a topic you should be relying on an encyclopedia entry for anyway. Use the tool for what the tool is good for.

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