You can self-host the kiwix server in docker and grab .zim files for whoever wiki you want to host. Wikipedia is one of those files.
This is the way! Kiwix website has all the goodies one could want, and can easily download Wikipedia in your language and in different formats. Highly recommend Kiwix! Also comes with Android app, and PC client to read the documents offline.
Oh, oh, oh, this is actually what I wanted, and the other comment that says to download Wikipedia in my language
I didn’t know it’s so easy to import Wikipedia db into a third party knowledge database service
@nutomic@lemmy.ml made a federated wiki project if that’s something that interests you.
https://tiddlywiki.com/ could also be an option. Although it’s mostly for notes and such I think.
Oh. Seems this is a pattern.
I definitely don’t condone people telling you to kill yourself, but the fact that you are consistently receiving negative responses in an otherwise friendly community should give you pause: you’re missing a lot of clues. Unless you enjoy being ostracized like this, it might be time for a bit of serious introspection.
Wikiless?
The original project was taken down by Wikipedia, but this appears to be an active fork of it:
https://github.com/Metastem/wikilessThe software Wikipedia runs on is called Mediawiki. And yes, you can self-host it.
DokuWiki is very simple to get started
Without any text it’s really hard to guess what you want and that’s why you get so many different answers.
Do you want to
- host a copy of wikipedia for yourself locally? Then download the database from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download (thanks zygo_histo_morpheus) and the sofware from https://www.mediawiki.org and get going. Both are freely available
- host a site that works like wikipedia but doesn’t contain its content, but your own? Just use MediaWiki.
- host a wiki, but not necessarily the one that powers wikipedia? Then pick one from https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?tab=readme-ov-file#wikis
Note that I suspect you actually want the third one, in which case I suggest you avoid MediaWiki. Not because it’s bad, but because it’s almost certainly overkill for your use-case and there’s way simpler, easier-to-setup-and-maintain systems with fewer moving parts out there.
I’ll hop on this, a while back I was curious about hosting game wikis, like ripping from fandom and hosting myself. Any good ideas for that?
I have a the logo of the Wikipedia right in the post, and I explicitly say Wikipedia, not wiki, not a knowledge database 🫣
You are lucky that people are nice, cause due to your petulance I would never help you
These nice people are trying to shame me for my presumably mental issues, this is ridiculous 👏
I suspect, if you were to stop being an entitled asshole, “these nice people” would find it a bit easier to be nice to you.
What a stupid reply. Expecting free help, but posting more than a logo from google is asking too much.
What?
I try to be positive here on programming.dev but someone gave you an incredibly thoughtful reply and you returned the favor with absolute disrespect. I think the only positive outcome here would be for me to simply block you and encourage others to do the same.
I’m sorry that my attempt to find out what you want to be able to provide useful help annoyed you.
Not annoyed, but many other people understood what I meant, and your suspicion was not correct, although I really used name Wikipedia explicitly (also, the image is PNG, it has word Wikipedia, but Lemmy decided to not show it, but when I was attaching it, it was showing)
Looks like you live in a dystopia, where making healthy relations are scarce.
Maybe you would be great to practice your social skills, dude…
Do you have a personality disorder?
Any specific reason to be so rude ?
I feel ambiguous with that question…
Clearly OP has social skills issues and maybe it’s a genuine question. Or it can be just a way to offend…
Either way I think OP must rethink hes attitude toward other people.
Good call. I did not read all of the comments :/
The post OP is being a dick to people and needlessly antagonizing people.
Atta boy double down.
Also, someone may want a snapshot of Wikipedia, but not need to run a full copy – like, they don’t need article history and such. You can get that too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwix
Note that I suspect you actually want the third one, in which case I suggest you avoid MediaWiki. Not because it’s bad, but because it’s almost certainly overkill for your use-case and there’s way simpler, easier-to-setup-and-maintain systems with fewer moving parts out there.
I kind of regret that, because I don’t like the proliferation of wiki syntaxes. Like, I’d rather have just one syntax that everyone could learn.
