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Date:      Wed, 2 Jul 2008 14:37:20 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Steve Franks <stevefranks@ieee.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: OT: anyone been crazy enough to mirror wikipedia?
Message-ID:  <20080702143434.J9414@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <539c60b90806301348l4b09cd90n3972b41339276d6f@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <539c60b90806301348l4b09cd90n3972b41339276d6f@mail.gmail.com>

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> So call me a sociopath, but times are a bit scary.  I'd like to do the
> 2000's equivalent of the 1960's bomb shelter, and have my very own
> snapshot in case of major local/regional internet disruption, etc.

wikipedia is just a pile of junk. everyone can put in it, and 
unfortunately do.

in EVERY article i watched in area i have knowlege there were bugs. in 
most - big nonsenses.

in others - probably too, i just don't have required knowledge to check 
it.


> snapshot on DVDs or disk as a fundraiser?  I'd drop $300 for some sort
> of officially licenced copy, I suspect there are other freaks that
> would too...

wget should do. select an option to limit downloads to wikipedia, but with 
unlimited recursion, start from almost any place.



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