I put all of Wikipedia on my home server, and it still answers when the internet is down
Wikipedia is a huge resource, but you can actually keep it all at home. And with a local LLM, it can answer your questions when your internet won't.
In a world where information can be accessed in just a few minutes through internet searches, one individual sought a solution to have reliable information even when without an internet connection. The reporter decided to create his own personal Wikipedia using Wikipedia's open-source software Kiwix and self-host it on his home server.
He started with the Simple English version of Wikipedia, which only took up approximately 1GB, and downloaded the nopic variant to avoid including images. After setting up the Kiwix server and an MCP server to query the database, the reporter found that he could access Wikipedia's information offline. While natural language questions could be asked using an LLM, the responses were not always accurate, especially when relying on a smaller model.
The better-performing 27-billion-parameter model provided more accurate answers, though not perfect. Despite these challenges, the reporter was able to answer queries about Wikipedia articles without the need for an internet connection.
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