Wikipedia in 300 languages ​​worldwide is delivered to the moon as a time capsule of knowledge "Wikipedia on the Moon"

ByNASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Free online encyclopedia "Wikipedia"Celebrated the 15th anniversary of birth on January 15, 2016. Wikipedia, which provides content of 300 languages ​​around the world,Wikipedia to the Moon (Wikipedia to the moon)"Published a page called. Private lunar unmanned probe space contestGoogle Lunar X PrizeUnder the cooperation of the participating organizations, it is planned to carry Wikipedia of all the languages ​​currently released as the "time capsule of knowledge" on the moon.

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Germany'sPart-Time Scientists(Part-time scientific society association) is one of five organizations participating in Google Lunar X Prize. The part-time scientific association is planning to run the proprietary Rover in the lunar in 2017, and the group's Rover shoots HD image quality images and movies after traveling over 500 meters, We are planning to impose a mission of sending to the earth. In order to carry out this mission, the part-time scientific society is developing Rover, but if there is space available for loading "Wikipedia data stored disc" in limited loading capacity of Rover Thing.


Wikipedia of the whole world on the data discMove togetherThere is not enough capacity to do so, even if you skip history or media files, it will be large enough to hold one language out of 300 languages. Therefore, the data loaded on the data disk is 300 words Wikipediasnap shotIt is argued that it is optimal. By going to International Volunteer Day on 5th December 2016, it is the goal to put data of about 300 languages ​​· about 39 million articles and about 20 GB capacity on a single disc.

At the time of writing the article, the project of Wikipedia to the Moon is the phase of "Phase 1: Scenario" out of all four phases. "Phase 2: Voting" will be on June 10, "Phase 3: Work" will be on July 1 and "Phase 4: Ending" will be on November 31.

On the Wikipedia to the Moon page is written that "Wikipedia is a truly global project and it will be an aggregate of human knowledge even if you simply carry a snapshot to the moon." Because we need to work in all languages ​​before launching Rover, Wikipedia is asking users for localization editing and discussion of related pages of "Wikipedia to the Moon" in each language.