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Wikipedia were in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise (www.wikimediastatus.net)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 249 points 8 months ago (9 children)

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

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  • [–] 85 points 8 months ago (8 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

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  • [–] 45 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    please do if you have the storage space and bandwith

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 23 points 8 months ago* (3 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

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months 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.

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