anyone been crazy enough to mirror wikipedia?
Gary Kline
kline at thought.org
Fri Jul 4 09:42:32 UTC 2008
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 01:50:20AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Steve Franks
> > Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 1:49 PM
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> > Subject: OT: anyone been crazy enough to mirror wikipedia?
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
> This is not a silly idea. For many many years people would spend
> hundreds of dollars on a complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica
> or World Book encyclopedia to have it sit on their shelf gathering
> dust (until their kids used it for school, etc.)
>
> The fact that your even asking the question and wanting to do
> it is to your credit.
>
> I really feel the big value of doing something like this is to
> be able to go back to it, years later, and compare the old
> entries on a topic with the current entries on a topic to
> see how they have changed.
>
> I also think that solving the technical problems and learning
> how to create a wikipedia mirror would be a great learning
> experience for anyone.
>
> But, as for the practical value, I would encourage you to read
> Asimov's Foundation series to really understand that any attempt
> to catagorize and store the world's accumulated knowledge in a
> storage medium in a single location is ultimately an exercise in
> futility. Asimov
> made the valid point that book knowledge of facts must work hand
> in hand with experience to be useful, and experience isn't documentable.
> Terminus itself, the entire planet and everyone on it, was the
> encyclopedia - the actual encyclopedia that the encyclopediests
> were working on, was nothing more than a sham.
>
Thanks for thi, Ted.
While this is going even further off-topi, I would like to see a '
(non-scholarly) wiki for just about every topic you can think of. By
wiki, i mean, in wiki format. over time it could have citations and
beome a research tool. On the BSD kernel prio scheduler, for one
example. This mighht grow into a wiki-web for unix nerds; or art history
buffs, etv.
I've got one questioon that I have been meaning to ask for years, but
haven't due to the yelps.... II've asked some off-the-wall here on
-questions simply because this is the most intelligent group|list of people
I've found. Is there a more appropriate place to ask miscelllaneous
questions? [I know about some and will hold my tongue!] Be nice to ask,
e.g, why homes are not required to have R-50 in the wall; R-90 attics.
--I'd ask here, but not only would someone toss a fit, but I doubt that
even gven our level of xpertness, no one would know. ---Anyway,
apologies for this quasi-ramble and completely OT post.
have a good 4th/july,
gary
> Ted
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