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Does wikipedia have any read only mirrors?

• ddalex 7y ago
  You can download it - the index of human knowledge isn't that big that it wouldn't fit on a stick. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download#Offline_Wikipedia_readers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download#Of...
  • magpi3 7y ago
    I am in China:-). That link is blocked.
    • whiskers08xmt 7y ago
      You should be able to find a torrent file for whichever subset of wikipedia you need, which isn't too dated. There's even something like this, that lets you browse via bittorrent: https://github.com/mafintosh/peerwiki https://github.com/mafintosh/peerwiki
      • magpi3 7y ago
        Thank you!
    • andreimiulescu 7y ago
      Use this vpn: https://tunnelhero.com https://tunnelhero.com
      • NamTaf 7y ago
        Just FYI, their IKEv2 isn't likely to work, and Wireguard isn't necessarily available on all device types. My standard process is to spin up a Streisand instance before I go there and give me multiple options (Shadowsocks and Wireguard are my main two).
    • majos 7y ago
      HackerNews isn't blocked in China? That's surprising.
      • magpi3 7y ago
        It is not.
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• nroets 7y ago
  I'm in China for a few months. I search for the topic with Bing. If Wikipedia is one of the top results, Bing will embed most of the article.
  • O_H_E 7y ago
    Nice
• magpi3 7y ago
  It would be really useful if large organizations like universities mirrored wikipedia. It is the only website I truly miss in China.
• gnomewascool 7y ago
  There's an IPFS mirror of English Wikipedia[0], as well as several others[1], though not the Chinese one[2]. It's currently not a particularly up-to-date mirror, though (from late 2016). [0] https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/ https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1m... [1] https://github.com/ipfs/distributed-wikipedia-mirror/blob/master/snapshot-hashes.yml https://github.com/ipfs/distributed-wikipedia-mirror/blob/ma... [2] https://github.com/ipfs/distributed-wikipedia-mirror/issues/54 https://github.com/ipfs/distributed-wikipedia-mirror/issues/...
  • nroets 7y ago
    And I just tried. i It's blocked
    • gnomewascool 7y ago
      Interesting. Presumably that means that all of the ipfs.io domain is blocked(?). You could try it on some other IPFS gateways. For instance: https://ipfs.jes.xxx/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/ https://ipfs.jes.xxx/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQk... or https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/ https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72... There's a list of gateways[0][1] (hopefully github isn't blocked...) in case these two are also blocked. You could also try just using IPFS directly[2], rather than using an HTTP-to-IPFS gateway, though that's rather more involved and potentially might make you stand out more / seem more suspicious. In brief, in case you hadn't read about it, the idea behind IPFS is that it's a decentralised, torrent-like content storage system, where content and nodes are "addressed" via their hash (e.g. QmXoyp... above), similarly to git. In order to allow people without the IPFS daemon to access the "IPFS web" there are gateways, like the ones mentioned above. [0] https://ipfs.github.io/public-gateway-checker/ https://ipfs.github.io/public-gateway-checker/ [1] I hope that I'm not just helping Chinese censors by providing a list of domains to block... [2] https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs
      • nroets 7y ago
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