Comment on MAGA Puts Wikipedia in Its Crosshairs

• turdburglar@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  thank yewwww.

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  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There is also apps like Aard2 that allow you to have all of wikipedia (no images duh) offline on your phone. 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: …halifax.rwth-aachen.de/…/enwiki20250801-slob/

    If it is fat32 then you gotta download it in 4GB chunks: …rwth-aachen.de/…/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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    • turdburglar@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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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      • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        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.

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