ipfs/distributed-wikipedia-mirror
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[ ARCHIVED ] Wikipedia snapshots on IPFS (2017-2021). The ZIM-unpacking approach is a dead end, read the README for what to build instead.
9 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 2 stories, 7 comments · first 2017-05-07 · latest 2022-09-13
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…in your language [0]. No crypto-based incentives associated with that though, at least yet. [0] https://github.com/ipfs/distributed-wikipedia-mirror#cohost-...
comment by leesalminen · 2021-10-17 · in HTTP is obsolete – it's time for the distributed, permanent web (2015) -
…a local network can share data. And to make sure unused wikipedia pages aren't garbage collected, https://github.com/ipfs/distributed-wikipedia-mirror#cohost-...
comment by karmanyaahm · 2021-06-20 · in Internet in a Box -
IPFS has a Wikipedia mirror but it is fairly out of date since it is dependent on the Kiwix archive. https://github.com/ipfs/distributed-wikipedia-mirror
comment by buildbuildbuild · 2019-09-07 · in Malicious attack on Wikipedia – what we know and what we’re doing -
…though (from late 2016). [0] https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1m... [1] https://github.com/ipfs/distributed-wikipedia-mirror/blob/ma... [2] https://github.com/ipfs/distributed-wikipedia-mirror/issues/...
comment by gnomewascool · 2019-05-13 · in China is blocking all language editions of Wikipedia -
…themselves but ended up using Zim archives from kiwix.org instead. The end result is here: https://github.com/ipfs/distributed-wikipedia-mirror For actually ingesting the archives, dignifiedquire expanded a Rust utility aptly named Zim,…
comment by diggan · 2019-03-16 · in Ask HN: Has anyone had luck using the Wikipedia data dumps? -
…wikipedia-on-ipfs experiment from last year: https://github.com/magik6k/distributed-wiki-search && https://github.com/ipfs/distributed-wikipedia-mirror
comment by lgierth · 2018-09-17 · in Introducing Cloudflare’s IPFS Gateway -
…True, though there are ways around it. Currently witnesses with Turkey blocking Wikipedia. See e.g. https://github.com/ipfs/distributed-wikipedia-mirror for ways around it. > Instead, to answer such problems, you need true distribution. I…
comment by smsm42 · 2017-05-07 · in Wikimedia Foundation spending