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[–] 20 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Annnnnd that's why I downloaded a snapshot of Wikipedia a few months ago and host it locally.

Sad that it's necessary, but with modern AI tooling, we have everything we need to destroy knowledge on an industrial scale.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    How do you selfhost Wikipedia? Any good guides in how to do it?

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Kiwix is the easiest way to do it; if you have Docker/Kubernetes, there's a Docker image at ghcr.io/kiwix/kiwix-serve, and the K8s manifest to deploy is as simple as:

    apiVersion: v1
    kind: Service
    metadata:
      name: wikipedia-service
    spec:
      selector:
        app: kiwix-server
      ports:
      - port: 80
        targetPort: 8080
      clusterIP: None
    ***
    apiVersion: apps/v1
    kind: Deployment
    metadata:
      name: wikipedia-server
      labels:
        app: kiwix-server
    spec:
      replicas: 1
      selector:
        matchLabels:
          app: kiwix-server
      template:
        metadata:
          name: wikipedia-server
          labels:
            app: kiwix-server
        spec:
          containers:
          - name: kiwix-server
            image: kiwix/kiwix-serve:3.8.0
            imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
            command:
            - /usr/local/bin/kiwix-serve
            - --port=8080
            - --verbose
            - /data/wikipedia_en_all_maxi.zim
            ports:
            - containerPort: 8080
              protocol: TCP
            volumeMounts:
            - name: data
              mountPath: /data
              readOnly: true
              limits:
                memory: "128Mi"
                cpu: "2000m"
          volumes:
          - name: data
            persistentVolumeClaim:
              claimName: wikipedia-mirror
    

    Then you just need to download a copy of the mirror file wikipedia_en_all_maxi.zim and put it in the appropriate place - wget https://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia_en_all_maxi.zim

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago*

    As soon as you leave English language wikipedia this happens fairly often. Not necessarily Russian, maybe adjacent. And not since yesterday! I noticed around Corona, and it's been a problem for way longer. It's relatively easy for 1 editor to slip through unnoticed if there isn't enough eyeballs on the article, and hey they can write what their overlords tell them unchallenged.

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  • [+] -9 points 6 months ago

    "that some believe may be part of a Russian influence operation"

    Jeebus a bunch of drivel propaganda.. The whole site is the same kind of nonsense fantasy. They just jump along on the dumdum official propaganda narrative about the baad baad Russia.. Incredible that people still haven't figured out that they were conned - played - by US/western elites.

    Oh well, fortunately Russia will survive Nato's proxy war against them, and they'll survive primitive propaganda as this 'article'.

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