distributed-wikipedia-mirror

't think there's a way to do anything about it, unless somebody wants to donate a data center :) > If the Great Firewall can block your site/content entirely with a single rule, you have an SPOF. True, though there are ways around it. Currently witnesses with Turkey blocking Wikipedia. See e.g. https://github.com/ipfs/distributed-wikipedia-mirror for ways around it. > Instead, to answer such problems, you need true distribution. I am skeptical about the possibility of making community work using "true distribution". Even though we have good means to distribute hardware and software, be it production or development code, we still do not have any ways to make a community without having gathering points. I won't say it is impossible. I'd say I have yet to see anybody having done it. But if somebody wants to try, all power to them. You can read more about Wikimedia discussions on the topic here: https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Distributed_Wik... > such that you can "bring Wikipedia with you" That already exists, there are several offline wikipedia setups and projects: https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline/List_of_Offline_... > this can take the form of preloaded "Wikipedia mirror in a box" appliances We are pretty close to this - you can install working Mediawiki setup very quickly (vagrant or I think there are some other containers too, I use vagrant), dumps are there. Won't be 100% copy of true site since there are some complex operational structures that ensure caching, high availability, etc. which kinda hard to put into a box - they are in public (mostly as puppet recipes) but implementing them is not out-of-the-box experience. But you can make a simple mirror with relatively low effort (probably several hours excluding time to actually load the data, that depends on how beefy your hardware is :) Most of this, btw, is made possible by the work of WMF Engineers :)