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Is there a collection of all human knowledge ever created ? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by saltynuts420@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Recently I was wandering if there is someone or some group preserving , collecting , organizing and publishing all the knowledge of mankind ever created throughout its existence so that if ever mankind faces the 6th mass extinction we don't have to reinvent the wheel and can have a kick start to our new post apocalyptic civilization .

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[–] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I'm surprised no one mentioned projects like libgen and scihub. They are much better than Wikipedia imo.

[–] Yazer@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wikipedia is a great start. You can download its entirety, roughly 100gb. Most of the basic and advanced human knowledge.

Check out kiwix to get it offline

[–] DivergentHarmonics@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Wikipedia is basically useless without the sources, though. It's just a TL;DR summary of things.

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wikipedia is absolutely not useless without the sources. I don’t even know what to say, that statement is so deranged.

[–] DivergentHarmonics@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

WP as it is is of course not useless. But don't confuse it with a real library. Then, imagine in the apocalyptical worst case, having archived only that summary of humankind's knowledge. There's a vast amount of detail that WP is just not the right place for.