As this blog post is being published, we are sending out emails to all openSNP users with some news: OpenSNP will be turned off – and with that also delete all the data stored on it – on April 30, 2025. Given that the project has been part of my...
I imagine we will be saying goodbye to many such things soon, in the extreme maybe yhe entire idea of a global internet and many open projects like Wikipedia, I can’t see how they can coexist with our world now without being shut down or subverted into evil, might as well go out on their own terms.
I do hope a copy exists somewhere, perhaps waiting for a brighter day. Maybe that’s naive, but maybe truth and knowledge will become a desirable thing again one day.
I imagine we will be saying goodbye to many such things soon, in the extreme maybe yhe entire idea of a global internet and many open projects like Wikipedia, I can’t see how they can coexist with our world now without being shut down or subverted into evil, might as well go out on their own terms.
I do hope a copy exists somewhere, perhaps waiting for a brighter day. Maybe that’s naive, but maybe truth and knowledge will become a desirable thing again one day.
The evil Wikipedia already exists, it’s called Metapedia
For anyone who doesn’t know (as I didn’t), metapedia is pretty clear Nazi apologist crap, just to save you checking/ending up on a watchlist.
But is it a good list or a bad list these days. I’m confused. /s
Yikes. Thanks
https://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln is an example.
Eh it’s not really the same thing, there’s plenty of these sorts of things like rationalwiki and prolewiki and whatnot. I meant the Wikipedia itself
You can download Wikipedia.
Anyone can actually.
I don’t have the storage capacity required personally
The compressed text only dump is about 25gb.
It only grows to many terabytes if you include all revisions and media files
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
Damn, TIL. Downloading now.
Then feed it into an AI or something.