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#Wikipedia kiwix full vs light how to#
At that time, if you wanted an offline copy of wikipedia, you had to download something like 80GB and figure out how to install/run the wikipedia backend. It's a CD size, why is their title wiki on DVD? Actually, I was looking for something like this just a few months ago. The online version could be best used as a temporary editing version, with real versions being pressed and distributed, and competantly edited. The disc may be the only version that is ever really usefull as an encyclopedia. The disc distribution can solve that, and users can feel confident that the information contained therein is actually worth something. How is a 12 year old kid, taking everything in there at face value, supposed to seperate the BS from the truth so they can get their school project done? Especially when you have older people who should know better, filling it with such facts as 'E = MC Hammer'. Not to mention the fanboys who flood serious articles with video game, comic book, and star wars|trek references. None of these types are competant enough to make Neutral Point Of View contributions. The whole thing is overrun by GPL Zealots, anti corporate hippies, immature kids, obssessed fans, bible thumpers, etc. This is a columnist in his 50s, not a 15 year old kid. Even my local newspaper had an article written that detailed a spree of silly article edits along the lines of turning into a werewolf if you visit a certain country on a certain date. We have Stephen Colbert logging onto Wikipedia during his show, and making article edits. Then we have magazines and newspapers editors who think it's funny to write articles about how they vandalized an article.
Factual information that paints them in negative light is often editted out by these same people. So much for the NPOV policy.Īn article about a person in the public eye often turns into a battle gound and then a daily log of that person's life by an obssessed fan who thinks what they had for breakfast on friday is important information.
#Wikipedia kiwix full vs light software#
The articles about 3D software are all really about how you should be using Blender instead, because it's GPL.
#Wikipedia kiwix full vs light free#
Hell, the fact that 3DS Max is NOT under the GPL and free is somehow more important than anything else about the software, despite the fact that's it's the industry leader/standard 3d modeller and renderer. You can't read about any software that isn't under the gpl without seeing a page that's been hijacked by GPL zealots time after time. It's biggest strength of wikipedia is also it's biggest weakness. The fact that anyone can add to it doesn't change the fact that it's still an encyclopedia. And a cheap disc of Wikipedia can be very helpful to some people. There was a point when your random, off the shelf encyclopedia didn't have a reputation either.
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