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Both the Internet Archive and Wikipedia are really important. I guess the way is to make alternatives or datahoard in these difficult times.
Why make alternatives when these fantastic organizations already exist? It's not the first time they've come under fire and it definitely won't be the last.
If vandalous cunts like Musk wish for them to go away and will de-fund them to that end, best thing we can do is donate to them and spread the word they need help.
You've answered your own question: because one day they might not take the fire and collapse. It's like saying it's not the first time your old HDD has been showing bad sectors and definitely won't be the last. That's all the more reason to make a backup!
I agree with you that we should donate to them and make them more people-funded, but ideally you want that taken care of through public funding coming out of taxes. You can't just sustain every single entity through individual donations.
I feel this is a bad analogy, Wikipedia and IA are not a hard drive spinning in a server rack, they are community projects - made for the public good. They do not face the same issues. The problems they repeatedly face are always the same - funding (which is largely solved) and the issue discussed on topic - legal.
The reason it's important to defend the IA/Wikipedia and pile our resources behind them instead of splitting off new projects is that if they lose legal cases, any other projects with the same or similar goals will face exactly the same attacks and results. Unless you intend to host your replacement on the moon.
Fair enough. In that case, let me amend my prescription:
Whether or not it's the same project is immaterial — it's about redundancy of the data, hosting it in multiple countries, in such a way that if one country turns authoritarian and wants to burn it down, they'll be backed up in 10 other countries. The community as well should be international and redundant in a way that allows for responsibilities to shift if push comes to shove.
Ultimately it's about not being vulnerable to one country having one bad day.
No, just countries that don't want to destroy IA/Wikipedia. If there's none of them left, then we'll have much bigger problems.
I think that if we work together as people we can achieve more than just a couple of good organizations that can fade. That doesn't mean I wouldn't donate to Wikipedia or Internet Archive. The goal isn't to compete, it isn't a business. Just to make things stronger.
That is exactly what the Internet Archive and Wikipedia are - a bunch of people who wanted to achieve a shared goal in an open, free, and democratic manner.
As soon as you start building something to replace what they've made you'll quickly realize what they did - it's very big, so it needa layers of governance, and you don't want mismanagement by any one person or handful of small people, so you incorporate it and make a charter of your mandates, policies, procedures for stakeholders to vote for removal of people causing issues, clauses stating the data and corporation are owned by your non-profit entity and may never be for-profit... And pretty soon you have yourself an institution.
Downloading and accessing Wikipedia offline through Kiwix is actually pretty easy.
How does it work? Does it download all Wikipedia or any other website I point it to (like Project Gutenberg as it says on the website) pages or does it download it when I access the page?
You get a .zim file that is either just text on the pages or text + pictures. One I have is like 109GB~ w/ pictures. There’s many others to choose from as well I believe not just the ones I mentioned
Oh god. I'm gonna need more storage