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There was talk sometime ago about hoarding the 20220830 Wikipedia dump as some of the big AI models went public soon after.

Now I can’t find it anywhere. Any suggestions?

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[–] wiccan2@thelemmy.club 14 points 1 week ago

I'd also be interested in this of anyone finds it.

In the mean time, I have managed to find 202205 on Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2022-05

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Okay, what is so special about this snapshot?

[–] lama@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

I think the idea is that it's pre-LLM

[–] BuckFutter@timeyak.com 1 points 1 week ago

Earliest one I have is the 2023-09 zim (wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2023-09.zim) so not quite that far back.