• 9point6@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Yes of course

    But every single scrap of information in Wikipedia exists somewhere else

    Its value is twofold and exclusively these two when you boil everything down:

    • It is enough information to answer any question that has an empirically known answer
    • It is available to anyone on the planet with ease and without cost

    There’s very little else we’ve created that hits both of those, but the second is by far the most important.

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      1 hour ago

      But the fact that it’s relatively easy to download and backup makes me confident that someone, somewhere, will rehost it should it go down. Hell, I’d even take a crack at it.

      It’s kind of the point of federation, too. An instance can go down but anyone who federated with them will still have that data.