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Given the trend we've seen towards dictionaries rewriting definitions of words and sites like Wikipedia scrubbing long-existing content in the name of combating
by illuminerdy 4y ago
Given the trend we've seen towards dictionaries rewriting definitions of words and sites like Wikipedia scrubbing long-existing content in the name of combating "misinformation", I'd like to have a set of older hardcopies of encyclopedias and dictionaries so things that are being erased are still preserved somewhere.
- SoftTalker 4y agoThat's one nice thing about hardcopy. It can't be changed remotely.
- bpye 4y agoWikipedia does at least preserve history.
- Dalewyn 4y agoNot always. Deleted articles are gone including the edit history, for example.
- oplaadpunt 4y agoDo you have a reference for the trend of dictionaries rewriting words? Is it any different then dictionaries keeping up with the way language is being used in the present? Also, don't new definitions usually get added on top of the older ones? (E.g. literally meaning both literally and figuratively now)
- int_19h 4y agoYou can get a complete self-contained offline snapshot of Wikipedia (and many other wikis and websites) from https://www.kiwix.org/ https://www.kiwix.org/