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Wikipedia is one of the greatest projects in the history of mankind. Very little compares to it in scale and value.


Runner up must be Archive.org. I donate to both projects regularly.


I donate to archive.org by scanning and uploading new content (old science instruction books, etc.).


you mean "old content", right? (:


I think Open Street Map comes close.


Kinda, but Wikipedia is pretty universal, while open street map is limited to Earth.


When there is human-made pavement on another planet (or moon) I highly suspect OSM will model it.


This is more of a testament to HTTP/HTML though. It's a universal format for storing and retrieving information.

OpenStreetMap is, along with every other geo data project, limited by the common coordinate systems we have for storing and retrieving geospatial data -- and these are almost always planetary, not universal.


Some runner ups:

- Archive.org

- SciHub

- OpenStreetMaps

- Library Genesis

- TikTok (/s)


It’s hard to overstate the value of Wikipedia to humanity.

I hope there are lots of copies of it in government survival bunkers around the world.

I wonder if they keep an offline copy on ISS?




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