downloaded a backup yesterday
everyone with sense and 160GB should do the same
this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2025
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There's an article here on how to utilize Wikipedia offline, and you can look under the "Where do I get the dumps?" section for links to downloads.
I wonder if they're going to investigate conservapedia for bias.
Sir you seem to have a bias for presenting unbiased facts. This simply can not be.
Hey no fair, the US is just copying us! (UK)
We targeted Wikipedia first recently waaaaa
How long is it going to be until America has a great firewall ala China.
well it's already happening. look what recently happened in Mississippi with age verification.
protip if you're American and you ask "how long until America has such and such" chances are, 9 times out of 10, it's already happening or has happened and you're just not aware.
"Yo dog, I heard you like freedom so I gave you freedom from your freedom!"
The states are the future of Federal law. And all things considered, yeah.
We have the OSA here in the UK which requires age verification. I connected to a VPN server in America and got age gated because the server was in Texas. So much for "land of the free".
Dude, Texas sucks.
Yeah, I gathered.
I do tech support on a global company, and some customers have started to demand their cases not to be readable for our usa based colleagues, nor the shared info hosted on usa clouds. So that wall is somewhat already there.
Understandable. I kinda wish the UK would copy the EU's move for digital sovereignty and invest in FOSS/Self Hosted shit but the OSA has kinda made me a bit worried about that. You could get it past the Flag Shaggers easy though.
Canadian here. Most of our data is stored by American companies, even if they're physically located in Canada. And as Microsoft recently admitted, American law supercedes our data and privacy rights. So effectively the US has ownership of our government, education, and health records.
No firewall, you'll just have to log into the Internet via a federal ID and speeds will be cut in half because every packet gets copied to a government server for evidence against you-- I mean, to protect the children.
What are we, a bunch of Asians?
"we've come to realize that people knowing stuff is a real problem for our agenda."
"Reality has a well-known liberal bias."
Liberty does too.
why doesn't wikipedia just move out of the US?
Ever since Covid19 I heard people saying "Wikipedia is not objective". Initially, a hard argument to go against, but my ultimate answer is this:
Encyclopedia Britannica is not objective either. No *pedia is, online or otherwise. Nothing is. And still Wikipedia is one of the best options out there, not lastly because of how it's organised. [That said, it does have - usually right-wing - strong bias in places, esp. non-English content which would need more eyes.]
I'm not surprised this is now mainstream MAGA speak.
I just hope Wikipedia is still international enough so that its content is ultimately out of the US government's reach.
They already have Conservapedia (click and weep), let them enjoy and contribute to it!
Decided to try one of the less political articles to see what it'd look like.
One expert observes that "every school shooter has been heavily immersed in violent first person shooter games."[1] Many bright futures of young men are destroyed by video game habits, and video games even cause harmful increases in blood sugar in players.[2] Video games are addictive, train young mass murderers, and promote liberal talking points or ideas.
That's one of the first things it says. Then it goes on to talk about promoting homosexuality and some more bullshit. Good stuff...
FUCK THESE GUYS
Or, as GOP says, "Fuck your feelings"
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.
That's highly dependent on how many, or which, languages you download, I think.
This is true, I was referring to english wikipedia.
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