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Föderation EN Di 21.01.2025 23:29:10 If anyone wants their own personal copy of Wikipedia on their computer, phone or tablet, a copy that cannot be deleted or edited by anyone else, there's an app called @kiwix that makes this possible: You can use the same app to install offline copies of lots of wiki-powered sites and many others too. I have a copy of WikiVoyage on my phone so wherever I go there's always some kind of info about it without needing an internet connection. |
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Föderation EN Di 21.01.2025 23:36:34 I think this is a necessary matter to safe keep Wikipedia. There is another issue: the channels of communication themselves are being swamped with bots. When these sites are inundated with scrapers, itβs slowed down for legit use. Lord, what I wouldnβt wish for the means to create a completely different Internet that doesnβt have any commercial penetration to it. |
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Föderation EN Di 21.01.2025 23:52:51 @FediThing @kiwix I didn't know you could do it with Wikivoyage. Cool! |
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Föderation EN Di 21.01.2025 23:56:12 |
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Föderation EN Mi 22.01.2025 00:05:01 @FediThing @kiwix noice |
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Föderation EN Mi 22.01.2025 05:21:22 @FediThing @kiwix @LaLaOrange Have a spare laptop with few TB of space on it? You can quickly torrent the full #wikipedia as a ~100G zim file. Many languages too. Just add .torrent to the zim filename and open that url in your tor client. Check the mirror and readme docs.!! βZimitβ folder has other offline websites as zim files. βOtherβ has other wikis Text listings: https://download.kiwix.org/zim/ Or web GUI to same files and #torrents :
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Föderation EN Mi 22.01.2025 06:05:21 @PatrickWirth @FediThing π€ So cool! Merci!
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Föderation EN Mi 22.01.2025 05:42:55 @FediThing Suddenly feeling nostalgic for the three encyclopedia sets I had as a child...there are wiki pages I visit over and over again, so this will be very handy. |
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Föderation EN Mi 22.01.2025 06:09:16 @FediThing @kiwix How graceful is the update process? Something like rsync on a daily or weekly basis would be a nice feature. |
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Föderation EN Mi 22.01.2025 06:15:25 @FediThing @kiwix I'm not saying you should throw up copies of wikipedia that have had all the facts changed so that AI will scrape them and poison the training model because that would be bad. |
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Föderation EN Mi 22.01.2025 15:22:20 @FediThing @robertoacj @kiwix Any idea how much storage space would be required for the English version? |
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Föderation EN Mi 22.01.2025 15:28:14 @mlanger Just installed the app to check it and you can download sections of Wikipedia (for example, selected geography articles) or an offline version of Wikipedia as a whole; in Portuguese, it's 14,9 GB for the regular offline version and 1,9 GB for a "brief text" version. edit: for the English version, I see a 6,9GB and a 53,2 GB version. |
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Föderation EN Mi 22.01.2025 15:46:16 @robertoacj Thanks so much for this. It looks like a good project when I get home. |
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Föderation EN Mi 22.01.2025 22:06:59 @FediThing @dichotomiker @kiwix back in the early 2000s we had mobipocket for that before 24/7-mobile internet was a thing it was sooooo useful to always have a full (no images) copy of wikipedia on the PDA! |
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Föderation EN Do 23.01.2025 10:23:21 @drazraeltod @FediThing @kiwix Concerning Wikipedia, especially the Article about Gender, people fear that 24/7 lead to too much volatility during Trump II. |
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Föderation EN Do 23.01.2025 11:34:05 @dichotomiker @FediThing @kiwix oh, I wasn't trying to claim "this is a bad idea now" - only: "it was a great thing back then" |
