[mike_hearn]

I'm curious what alternative ways there are to consume Wikipedia. I was poking around to see how feasible a local mirror would be, or at least a self-hosted mirror. It'd be especially interesting if there were ways to "patch in" alternative versions of articles on top of a mirrored based on pluggable feeds, for people who feel Wikipedia is biased on some topics and want to have a seamless experience in which most articles are taken from the base but others are forkde. Sort of like a github but for the wiki.

From looking at the dumps, it does seem feasible to have a custom browser app that's capable of quickly looking up and navigating around articles either mirrored locally or on a self-hosted Linux VM. Combined with RAG and local LLMs it might be especially interesting.

[supriyo-biswas]

For the locally hosted part of it, you’re looking at Kiwix[1].

[1] https://kiwix.org/en/