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Wikipedia were in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise
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this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2026
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We must protect wikipedia, they're our only safe place right now.
Ya tonight Im gonna start torrenting one of the backups. I don't normally seed more than 2x ratio but I think this one will be set to trickle seed and stay on for at least 10x
please do if you have the storage space and bandwith
How big is the torrent, and where do I download from?
40G if you don't download pics. Closer to 100G with pics (apparently 115G at the moment)
See: library.kiwix.org
Kiwix is the simplest way to host a local Wikipedia backup
I'ma let one of you who has 40 spare gigs of HDD space do it
Going to kick this off tonight and seed for a good long while. I got you fam.
I've got a copy on a hard drive and one on my phone
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents#English_Wikipedia