Post #1577039 · Elektrine

@EnigmaRotor@mastodon.bsd.cafe

2026-02-15 12:12 UTC

@kiwix @ricardo A more fresh English zim dump may be also useful for Russia, and others. It is resource-expensive, I know, but other parts of the world, such as Europe might also experience some lockdown someday. Be it from our governments, or from global satcom/cable outage. I love the concept of offline zim for a bunch of knowledge resources, but they would need to be kept updated more often. Would a join operation between Wikipedia fondation and Kiwix making use of the database dumps directly instead of scraping would make it less impactful for the Wikipedia structure ? I remember AARdict used the dumps as a source for their compressed content.

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@EnigmaRotor@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2026-02-15 12:36

@kiwix @ricardo And would absolutely love the idea of a streamed Wikipedia using decentralized networks, such as chatmail, BitTorrent whatever, activitypub… with content pushed to nodes without barriers. Mirrors everywhere on one’s computer (useful content for display/print, not the whole db content for the article, no the whole history), synced with selected themes. “You want FR page updates for articles about cryptography? Here you go the updates are streamed live to your machine thru p2p”. The day you government blocks your sources of knowledge/info, you have a somewhat fresh content somewhere on your disk. This vague idea/fantasy is not about replacing the existing account/edit/db mecanism, but providing some other distribution scheme which could adapt to censorship using whichever resilient network. @wikimediafoundation

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