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Wikipedia is one of the greatest projects in the history of mankind. Very little compares to it in scale and value.
by beebmam 4y ago
Wikipedia is one of the greatest projects in the history of mankind. Very little compares to it in scale and value.
- sigg3 4y agoRunner up must be Archive.org. I donate to both projects regularly.
- aembleton 4y agoI think Open Street Map comes close.
- Aeolun 4y agoKinda, but Wikipedia is pretty universal, while open street map is limited to Earth.
- kqr 4y agoThis is more of a testament to HTTP/HTML though. It's a universal format for storing and retrieving information. OpenStreetMap is, along with every other geo data project, limited by the common coordinate systems we have for storing and retrieving geospatial data -- and these are almost always planetary, not universal.
- spacemanmatt 4y agoWhen there is human-made pavement on another planet (or moon) I highly suspect OSM will model it.
- kloch 4y agoIt’s hard to overstate the value of Wikipedia to humanity. I hope there are lots of copies of it in government survival bunkers around the world. I wonder if they keep an offline copy on ISS?
- culi 4y agoSome runner ups: - Archive.org - SciHub - OpenStreetMaps - Library Genesis - TikTok (/s)