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@Daft_ish@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 2 years ago

They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust.

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They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust.

@Daft_ish@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 2 years ago
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  • Engywook
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    Wikipedia is the only piece of the internet I would save from apocalipse. Like, seriously.

    • @MightEnlightenYou@lemmy.world
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      Yeah, I have Wikipedia saved to a portable hard drive… Just in case

      • Engywook
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        I don’t know if you’re making fun of me, but, seriously, for me Wikipedia is an enormously valuable resource, much more than, for instance, YouTube (which I use, maybe, twice per year).

        • @LuckyBoy@lemmy.world
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          There is a lot of People with a copy of Wikipedia, it only takes 8GB. Just for the case something happens. I dont think he is making fun of you.

          Edit: this 8 GB was 10 years ago. From another article from 2022 it says 150Gb.

        • @Damaskox@lemmy.world
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          Some folks enjoy reading articles. Some folks enjoy to watch, listen and read (captions) at the same time. Some folks rather ask around and learn through conversations.

          I’ve understood that it’s generally easier to learn new things when you use many different channels (audio, imagery etc). To many people but not to all.

        • @MightEnlightenYou@lemmy.world
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          Wasn’t making fun of you, just agreeing with you and telling you my fix

    • @AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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      It’s less than 90 gig to do a full backup. I can have the sum total of human knowledge on a 1TB external SDD, and still have room for Skyrim and my modlist.

      • Frost-752
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        Is there an easy way of doing a full backup?

        • @alphafalcon@feddit.de
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          Funnily enough, wikipedia has the answer

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

          • Frost-752
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            ah I see, ty lol

      • @guiguinofake@sh.itjust.works
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        That’s only the text without any media. If you wanted to save all media on Wikimedia Commons, that would be about 420tb.

        • @AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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          You get the images, just not audio or video files.

    • @stillwater@lemm.ee
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      IIRC this happens in the show or book of Station Eleven where a kid saves Wikipedia offline on his PS Vita (somehow) and it’s the only version of it out there post-apocalypse.

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      It would also be nice to have a p2p service still up in the internet apocalypse to share all the things we have left.

      • @JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works
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        Could work like the underground networks in Cuba (I say underground but apparently there’s wires everywhere?)

    • @nucleative@lemmy.world
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      What if you need to remember how to procreate? I hear there are a number of informative videos about how to out there.

      • Engywook
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        But there aren’t on YouTube :-P

    • @joneskind@lemmy.world
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      I bought an app by Wikimedia CH that allows to download the whole thing. It’s called Kiwix.

      • @sir_reginald@lemmy.world
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        you “bought” kiwix? AFAIK it’s free

        • @joneskind@lemmy.world
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          There is a paid version on the Mac AppStore to support the project

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