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Okay, that looked a bit ridiculous in the pre-AI era (who needs to download the whole Wikipedia?), but now I can see the sense in it.
> who needs to download the whole Wikipedia
Replicating that knowledge helps build data resilience and protect it against all sorts of disasters. I used to seed their monthly data dump torrent for a while.
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Oh no even now there is plenty of use for it outside of AI training. Just think of all the schools in villages all around the world that don't have access to the internet or have a very limited connection. I've worked with folks that would setup local "wikipedia servers" for schools so that kids could access Wikipedia via a local network connection. In other setups they just download all of wikipedia to a set of lapt…
I'm thinking less about AI training and more about having a source of (reasonably) reliable information from the net, in case AI generated fake images and generated cross referenced texts start making it too difficult to discern real history from malicious rewrites. It's bad enough now, but can get much worse with the proliferation of AI agents.
Okay, that looked a bit ridiculous in the pre-AI era (who needs to download the whole Wikipedia?), but now I can see the sense in it.
> who needs to download the whole Wikipedia Anyone who wants to have access while off-line, for whatever reason. This can be as simple as saving costs via more complicated as accessing content from regions with spotty and/or expensive connectivity (you're on a ship out of reach of shore-based mobile networks, you do not have access to Starlink or something similar, you're deep in the jungle, deep underground, etc) to…
Okay, that looked a bit ridiculous in the pre-AI era (who needs to download the whole Wikipedia?), but now I can see the sense in it.
> who needs to download the whole Wikipedia Anyone who wants to have access while off-line, for whatever reason. This can be as simple as saving costs via more complicated as accessing content from regions with spotty and/or expensive connectivity (you're on a ship out of reach of shore-based mobile networks, you do not have access to Starlink or something similar, you're deep in the jungle, deep underground, etc) to…
I don’t think that’s fair. Not that Wikipedia is without bias, but that their ivory tower biases are worlds apart from the lying brutal animalistic Hollywood signals herding the masses in “our democracy”.
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Too bad the AI scrapers don't care, and are melting Wikipedia's production servers anyway. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/04/ai-bo...
Tragedy of the commons. And that’s why we can’t have nice things. Because people are people. And will always prioritize egotism over respect for the common good.
Okay, that looked a bit ridiculous in the pre-AI era (who needs to download the whole Wikipedia?), but now I can see the sense in it.
> who needs to download the whole Wikipedia Anyone who wants to have access while off-line, for whatever reason. This can be as simple as saving costs via more complicated as accessing content from regions with spotty and/or expensive connectivity (you're on a ship out of reach of shore-based mobile networks, you do not have access to Starlink or something similar, you're deep in the jungle, deep underground, etc) to…
Okay, that looked a bit ridiculous in the pre-AI era (who needs to download the whole Wikipedia?), but now I can see the sense in it.
> who needs to download the whole Wikipedia Anyone who wants to have access while off-line, for whatever reason. This can be as simple as saving costs via more complicated as accessing content from regions with spotty and/or expensive connectivity (you're on a ship out of reach of shore-based mobile networks, you do not have access to Starlink or something similar, you're deep in the jungle, deep underground, etc) to…
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> who needs to download the whole Wikipedia Anyone who wants to have access while off-line, for whatever reason. This can be as simple as saving costs via more complicated as accessing content from regions with spotty and/or expensive connectivity (you're on a ship out of reach of shore-based mobile networks, you do not have access to Starlink or something similar, you're deep in the jungle, deep underground, etc) to…
Genuine question, can you provide multiple explicit examples of such bias? I heard a lot of people railing against bias in Wikipedia, but no one provides any blatant examples of it.
Okay, that looked a bit ridiculous in the pre-AI era (who needs to download the whole Wikipedia?), but now I can see the sense in it.
Too bad the AI scrapers don't care, and are melting Wikipedia's production servers anyway. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/04/ai-bo...
Of course, the problem then is getting all these scrapers and bots to actually use the alternative, but Wikimedia could potentially redirect suspected clients in that direction..