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Can Wikipedia be forked?

• colesantiago 5mo ago
  It should be. We should do a hard fork of Wikipedia and call it Openpedia or Openwiki probably.
• Taronar 5mo ago
  People often download it into offline storage, i dont see why we couldnt just make our own.
  • pickleglitch 5mo ago
    Who's this "we" exactly? Who's going to host the infrastructure? I don't think it would be so trivial to "just make our own."
    • jazzyjackson 5mo ago
      Kiwix and Protocol Labs have a mirror hosted on IPFS: https://ipfs.kiwix.org/ https://ipfs.kiwix.org/ There's Internet In a Box and various other offline self hosted interfaces. But of course there's a big difference between a mirror of the content and the whole community which updates and creates the content.
  • II2II 5mo ago
    There are various reasons to avoid a fork. Having the resources to maintain such a site, spreading resources thin, and moving over or rebuilding a community of trusted editors are among them. That said, I am one of the people who downloaded a copy of Wikipedia. It wasn't with the intent of working it. Rather, it was to wait out any political strife (since that is bound to happen with such a large and diverse audience).
• jccalhoun 5mo ago
  It has been a few times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_forks_of_Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_forks_of_Wikip...
  • hootz 5mo ago
    They seem to be specialized forks though, not actual recreations of the entire Wikipedia. We should have like an actual Mediawiki instance that forks the current Wikipedia content and maybe also leeches contributions off of it for some time to keep it up to date.
• deleted 5mo ago
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• altilunium 5mo ago
  keywords : miraheze, wikioasis