Not only that, but MediaWiki is FOSS, and all existing content on all Wikimedia Foundation (except for a relative few kept on fair use grounds) are at most as restrictive as CC BY-SA 4.0. So you’d have whatever exists on Wikipedia currently (plus Wiktionary, Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies, etc., keeping in mind too that there are many Wikipedias besides English) plus the software that interacts with that data, other countries which haven’t fully descended into fascism, the members of the Wikimedia Foundation, a bunch of pissed-off editors, and a pissed-off public… I think a new, substantially similar non-profit would crop up in the UK etc., and very few things would have to change about the content that’s on the platform (where the UK has more restrictive speech laws).
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untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
killing all of wikipedia is gunna be almost impossible, theres probably millions of backups around the world. here’s a few links to download it, meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents, meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps, en.wikipedia.org/…/Wikipedia:Database_download
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 4 days ago
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I did already, tried the XOWA client to run a local copy on my PC. Wasn’t as easy as I hoped but it worked.
Planning to get a couple of USBs stashed away with full copies of Wikipedia and the reader app for knowledge security. You can fit the whole thing with a working installation onto a 128GB USB or less. My install dir was about 69GB total.
jwmgregory@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
additionally not everyone considers to backup the actual software used to compress/decompress the data. that isn’t permanent either and could disappear same as wikipedia, rendering such backups useless.
granted, it’s like, 10000x less likely than the already unlikely event of wikipedia being raptured. but the datahoarder mindset is better safe than sorry…
barryamelton@lemmy.world 4 days ago
USB sticks will lose the data after a couple of years of not being powered
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 4 days ago
That’s a good point, that is possible but not absolutely certain. I could probably get a smaller version of the wikipedia dump to fit on a BD-R disc but not 69GB.
USB drive or SD card archival might require a 6-month maintenance routine of inserting into a computer and verifying the files are still present etc.
madame_gaymes@programming.dev 4 days ago
To add to that, and to make it easier for some, you can use Kiwix!
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
but can it run on an ipod 🧐
(actually a pretty cool video btw)