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by Taronar 23 days ago
People often download it into offline storage, i dont see why we couldnt just make our own.
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There are various reasons to avoid a fork. Having the resources to maintain such a site, spreading resources thin, and moving over or rebuilding a community of trusted editors are among them.

That said, I am one of the people who downloaded a copy of Wikipedia. It wasn't with the intent of working it. Rather, it was to wait out any political strife (since that is bound to happen with such a large and diverse audience).

Who's this "we" exactly? Who's going to host the infrastructure? I don't think it would be so trivial to "just make our own."
Kiwix and Protocol Labs have a mirror hosted on IPFS: https://ipfs.kiwix.org/

There's Internet In a Box and various other offline self hosted interfaces.

But of course there's a big difference between a mirror of the content and the whole community which updates and creates the content.