I’ve been thinking about adding this to my “Fuck it, I’ll do it myself” / SHTF pile. I have a spare 10-15GB for a good selection of basic articles (across sciences, history, pop culture trivia etc).

https://get.kiwix.org/en/solutions/hotspots/content-bundles/

https://get.kiwix.org/en/solutions/hotspots/imager-service/

There’s something inherently cool about having wikipedia in a box (yes, you’d likely need to refresh it once a year) but I’ve never heard of anyone actually self hosting a Kiwix instance.

  • skip0110@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Yes, I self host the English Wikipedia dump, as well as a few cooking sites and topic specific stack exchange dumps available in zim format.

    My goal is:

    • reduce dependence on public internet. In the event of an outage or restriction I’d like some books and other content I can use to entertain myself
    • locally preserve a snapshot of information before it is possibly diluted by LLM edits