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Wikipedia were in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise (www.wikimediastatus.net)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by Beep@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 252 points 5 days ago (1 children)

We must protect wikipedia, they're our only safe place right now.

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 86 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Ya tonight Im gonna start torrenting one of the backups. I don't normally seed more than 2x ratio but I think this one will be set to trickle seed and stay on for at least 10x

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah, the entire compressed thing is only ~40GB if you exclude media like photos, audio files, videos, etc, so it’s surprisingly easy to keep a local backup. You need some specialized software to be able to read the compressed data without fully unzipping it, but the software is FOSS so anyone can use it. Even if you include images, the file is only like 120GB, which is easy for anyone with a NAS. I’ve had the 40GB version on my NAS for a while, and happily leave it to seed.

[–] e8CArkcAuLE@piefed.social 45 points 5 days ago (1 children)

please do if you have the storage space and bandwith

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago (2 children)

How big is the torrent, and where do I download from?

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

40G if you don't download pics. Closer to 100G with pics (apparently 115G at the moment)

See: library.kiwix.org

Kiwix is the simplest way to host a local Wikipedia backup

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I'ma let one of you who has 40 spare gigs of HDD space do it

[–] massacre@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

Going to kick this off tonight and seed for a good long while. I got you fam.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 4 days ago

I've got a copy on a hard drive and one on my phone