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OpenFactBook: CIA World Factbook lives as a community-managed site
https://openfactbook.org/
#via:metafilter #worldfactbook #opensource #almanac #+

Yksi maailman tunnetuimmista ja viitatuimmista verkkosivustoista, CIA:n World Factbook, on lakkautettu ilman sen kummempia selityksiä

Yhdysvaltain keskustiedustelupalvelun sivusto on ollut mm. Wikipedian laajalti lähteenä käyttämä palvelu.

https://dawn.fi/uutiset/2026/02/07/cia-world-factbook-lakkautettiin

#cia #worldfactbook #yhdysvallat #uutiset

Die #CIA hat das #WorldFactbook nach über 60 Jahren ohne Angabe von Gründen eingestellt.

Die Seite gehörte zu den ältesten Angeboten im #Internet und bot umfassende #Informationen sowie statistische #Daten zu Ländern und Regionen. Auch frühere Versionen wurden entfernt, bleiben jedoch über das Internet Archive einsehbar.

https://www.heise.de/news/The-World-Factbook-CIA-hat-ein-Urgestein-des-Internets-unerwartet-geschlossen-11166087.html

#Lexikon

The CIA Erased The World Factbook With No Warning… And Told Everyone To ‘Stay Curious’

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/06/the-cia-erased-the-world-factbook-with-no-warning-and-told-everyone-to-stay-curious/

📣 Another call for action, #DataRescuers! 📣 This time, Christopher Steven Marcum shares the request to save #WorldFactbook, including ways you can get involved. Learn more: www.datarescueproject.org/guest-post-t...

Guest Post: The World Factbook...

We know that educators who relied on the The World Factbook as a reference for teaching geography are reeling at the news that it has been taken offline.

We've put together a collection of other free, online resources that can help fill that gap, along with our best regional geography lessons (which are also free!)

Take a look and please share this with your educator friends.

https://journeysinfilm.org/teach-world-geography-with-film/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Social+Media&utm_campaign=World+Fact+Book&utm_content=link

#WorldFactBook #CIAWorldFactBook #Geography #Education #Edutooters #Homeschooling #Teaching #Teachers #TeachingResources #SocialStudies #MiddleSchool

#CIA ends publication of #WorldFactbook reference tool https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/04/cia-ends-publication-of-world-factbook-reference-tool-00766655

RE: https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/116015180016712361

That agonizing 😱 you are hearing is from the thousands of #Wikipedia editors who know their articles have links to the #WorldFactBook in them that now are dead and need to be re-linked to archive links! 🤯

And also every researcher, teacher, professor, or educational software developer who used links to the World Fact Book in their material!

As well as Redditors or any other online community participants who linked to it….

The #worldfactbook from the CIA is pretty interesting: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/

@ljwrites while working on https://fixato.org/projects/flags/flags.html?keyword_filter=korea,%20south I also learned that the black bars actually had meaning, were called #kwae / #trigrams (and that they actually different from each other, as I'd never looked close enough at it), and symbolised "the four universal elements".

Of course, as the data comes from the #CIA #WorldFactbook, I also wasn't sure how accurate the info is xD.

Didn't mention the #IChing though.