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You can also get it as a .zim file for easy offline browsing with Kiwix. The whole enchilada: https://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia/wikipedia_en_all_ma... Other versions: https://library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng&category=wikipedia
This comment was downvoted and instead, it'd better merit a comment as to "why" it wasn't contributing to the discussion?
Might also be worthwhile to download a pre ~2023 dump, because Low-background steel.
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.
Also helps save Wikipedia if it gets shut down - which might happen!
It would be nice to have something like this more decentralized.
Might also be worthwhile to download a pre ~2023 dump, because Low-background steel.
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.
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…
https://internet-in-a-box.org/
They provide offline access to Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Project Gutenberg, and many other resources.
Might also be worthwhile to download a pre ~2023 dump, because Low-background steel.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Pre-2022 Wikipedia dumps will be analyzed by future historians.
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.
Might also be worthwhile to download a pre ~2023 dump, because Low-background steel.
Military A.I. was likely in use earlier, and since PSYOPS are the most used and most effective weapon in the U.S. Military's arsenal, you absolutely know it was used. It ain't a war crime the first time...