Has anyone successfully mirrored Wikipedia?

Feels like a good time to.

@SecurityWriter I downloaded the whole thing and running it via KIWIX offline

@SecurityWriter plus 1 for Kiwix. Probably worth archiving the current archive somewhere safe too

@queserasera what sort of size are we looking at?

@SecurityWriter If you dont want the media images, it's not that big. https://library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng&q=&category=other

@SecurityWriter https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

In addition grab the offline-renderer for formating

@SecurityWriter https://kiwix.org

@SecurityWriter This is a great idea. It could be fun little weekend project w/ my kids, who aren't used to the internet being down or content potentially being unavailable.

@onelin That’s a great idea. Someone introduced me to Kiwix yesterday, so it might be of use to you.

Or you could try to do it manually of course.

@onelin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

@doesthisneedaground thanks a lot for this.

@queserasera @SecurityWriter the only wrinkle with kiwix i've run into is they've been boosting stallman

@mensrea @queserasera why is everycunt so baaaaad?

@queserasera @SecurityWriter exactly the same I did on Sunday evening.

@SecurityWriter my boss gives them free backups on his giant storage infra

@feld a good egg

@SecurityWriter Thanks for the info and links! I also checked the replies to your post last night and kicked off a Kiwix download, which finished. It's not 100% clear what the best option is yet if you want to have some images, but I think experimentation will be part of the fun.