The 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.

1: https://coppermind.net/wiki/Coppermind:Welcome

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csande17 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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

	▲	embedding-shape 10 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Alternatively, straight from Wikimedia, those are the dumps I'm using, trivial to parse concurrently and easy format to parse too, multistream-xml in bz2. Latest dump (text only) is from 2026-01-01 and weights 24.1 GB. https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20260101/ Also have splits together with indexes, so you can grab few sections you want, if 24GB is too large.
	▲	JKCalhoun 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		There's a torrent at the linked URL. Trying that right now. (I have a couple of Kiwix dumps of Wikipedia offline already.)

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Antibabelic 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

	▲	progbits 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I know but it's not as convenient if you have to keep scrolling through revisions.

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kace91 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Have you personally encountered slop there? I tend to use Wikipedia rabbit holes as a pastime and haven’t really felt a difference.