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		dharma1 on Feb 11, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “We already store data. In a database. It works w... You can torrent a full snapshot https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Content_in_all_languages And also download snapshots from IPFS https://blog.ipfs.io/24-uncensorable-wikipedia/ I guess the issue with snapshots of large datasets is that they go out of date, and downloading the whole data set regularly is a bit painful

samatman on Feb 11, 2020 [–]

Well, yes, that's why I indicated that being able to torrent a fully snapshot is a step in the right direction.

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