alt Hacker NewsThe Sanderson wiki [1] has a time-travel feature where you read a snapshot just before a publication of a book, ensuring no spoilers.
I would like a similar pre-LLM Wikipedia snapshot. Sometimes I would prefer potentially stale or incomplete info rather than have to wade through slop.
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Antibabelic • yesterday at 11:13 AM
But you can already view the past version of any page on Wikipedia. Go to the page you want to read, click "View history" and select any revision before 2023.
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kace91 • yesterday at 12:23 PM
Have you personally encountered slop there? I tend to use Wikipedia rabbit holes as a pastime and haven’t really felt a difference.
The easiest way to get this is probably Kiwix. You can download a ~100GB file containing all of English Wikipedia as of a particular date, then browse it locally offline.
I'm not sure if it's real or not, but the Internet Archive has a listing claiming to be the dump from May 2022: https://archive.org/details/wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2022-05