# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
# 
# Usage:
#     https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/users              View list of users and latest twt date.
#     https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt                View all twts.
#     https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri  View all mentions for uri.
#     https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/conv/:hash         View all twts for a conversation subject.
# 
# Options:
#     uri     Filter to show a specific users twts.
#     offset  Start index for quey.
#     limit   Count of items to return (going back in time).
# 
# twt range = 1 14
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/wnizuga
> blocking wikipedia

Wikiless has it covered. :)
@mckinley This looks pretty awesome! But it's only a frontend/proxy right?

What I've always wanted to do for years now is self-hosted my own "copy" of Wikipedia (at least in English) in its entirety. And occasionally sync changes upstream back down. I've looked at a few solutions, but I've never found anything I really like.
@mckinley This looks pretty awesome! But it's only a frontend/proxy right?

What I've always wanted to do for years now is self-hosted my own "copy" of Wikipedia (at least in English) in its entirety. And occasionally sync changes upstream back down. I've looked at a few solutions, but I've never found anything I really like.
@prologic Yes, it's just a proxy. There are a few projects that do something similar to what you're talking about, but nothing I know of is actually designed to "self-host Wikipedia" from a downloaded database dump.
@mckinley @prologic Mills are you ready for β€œ33,997,900,893 bytes”
@will I have no problems hosting 33GB of data and serving it up in some "sane" way πŸ˜…
@will I have no problems hosting 33GB of data and serving it up in some "sane" way πŸ˜…
@will it’s a bit more than that IIRC.

wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2021-12.zim 23-Dec-2021 03:45 93029437324

Taken from the Wikipedia Dumps - OpenZim Format.

Or ~112GB if you want a raw JSON dump without images.
@ullarah Please link me directly to both. I want to download 'em both πŸ˜… I found some code I _might_ be able to use.
@ullarah Please link me directly to both. I want to download 'em both πŸ˜… I found some code I _might_ be able to use.
I should mention also I self host this locally which works great. https://hub.docker.com/r/kiwix/kiwix-serve
@prologic see comment above πŸ˜…
@ullarah Hmmmm this is very interesting indeed.... I've not come across this before... Hmmmm πŸ€”
@ullarah Hmmmm this is very interesting indeed.... I've not come across this before... Hmmmm πŸ€”