Comment on Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis?
gustofwind@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Download your copies of Wikipedia before it’s too late
Comment on Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis?
gustofwind@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Download your copies of Wikipedia before it’s too late
FaceDeer@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
The problem being discussed here is not the availability of Wikipedia's data. It's about the ongoing maintenance and development of that data going forward, in the future. Having a static copy of Wikipedia gathering dust on various peoples' hard drives isn't going to help that.
UNY0N@lemmy.wtf 3 weeks ago
If the AI slop infects Wikipedia to such an extent that it becomes unusable, then such dusty backups could be very valuable. I completely agree that the issue at hand will not be solved by a simple backup, but it won’t hurt either.