As this blog post is being published, we are sending out emails to all openSNP users with some news: OpenSNP will be turned off – and with that also delete all the data stored on it – on April 30, 2025. Given that the project has been part of my...
I imagine we will be saying goodbye to many such things soon, in the extreme maybe yhe entire idea of a global internet and many open projects like Wikipedia, I can’t see how they can coexist with our world now without being shut down or subverted into evil, might as well go out on their own terms.
I do hope a copy exists somewhere, perhaps waiting for a brighter day. Maybe that’s naive, but maybe truth and knowledge will become a desirable thing again one day.
I imagine we will be saying goodbye to many such things soon, in the extreme maybe yhe entire idea of a global internet and many open projects like Wikipedia, I can’t see how they can coexist with our world now without being shut down or subverted into evil, might as well go out on their own terms.
I do hope a copy exists somewhere, perhaps waiting for a brighter day. Maybe that’s naive, but maybe truth and knowledge will become a desirable thing again one day.
You can download Wikipedia.
Anyone can actually.
I don’t have the storage capacity required personally
The compressed text only dump is about 25gb.
It only grows to many terabytes if you include all revisions and media files
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
Damn, TIL. Downloading now.
The evil Wikipedia already exists, it’s called Metapedia
Eh it’s not really the same thing, there’s plenty of these sorts of things like rationalwiki and prolewiki and whatnot. I meant the Wikipedia itself
https://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln is an example.
For anyone who doesn’t know (as I didn’t), metapedia is pretty clear Nazi apologist crap, just to save you checking/ending up on a watchlist.
Yikes. Thanks
But is it a good list or a bad list these days. I’m confused. /s