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Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away (theonion.com)

submitted 1 week ago by ZeroCool@lemmy.ca to c/theonion@midwest.social

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[–] TonyOstrich@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Uhhhhh, I have specifically downloaded an offline version of Wikipedia. I'm pretty sure this is just regular reporting from The Onion.

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Where can you download the entirety of wikipedia and how do you actually use it?

[–] TonyOstrich@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Wikipedia actually hosts various snapshots of the entire website that you can download. If you download the text only version in English it's less than 10GB if I recall. If you want photos and other things it's in the hundreds of gigs.

The easiest I'm aware of that requires the least effort and knowledge is an open source application called Kiwix which has apps for Android (both F-Droid and Play Store), Windows, Linux, iOS, and MacOS.

https://kiwix.org/en/

[–] Kornblumenratte@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago

aard2 is primary a dictionary app, but it has wiki* snapshots as well. (https://github.com/itkach/slob/wiki/Wikipedia)

[–] donalonzo@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Me too, and I'm not even American. I fully expect the Wikimedia foundation to be attacked.