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

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/

CIA’s World Factbook is Gone

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/02/06/cias-world-factbook-is-gone/

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

CIA’s World Factbook is Gone https://hackaday.com/2026/02/06/cias-world-factbook-is-gone/
#Internethacks #News #Cia #Referencebooks #Worldfactbook

📣 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...

“If the #WorldFactbook was indeed shut down because it didn’t meet Ratcliffe’s standard for core #CIA functions, that reflects the #Trump administration’s impoverished view of the #government’srole.” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

America Is Losing the Facts Th...

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.

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

World Factbook

https://kuemmerle.name/world-factbook/

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

Ab jetzt kommen die Fakten, die die US-Regierung über die Welt braucht, von 'ner AI? Am besten einer, die besonders "neutral" ist, schätze ich.

https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/spotlighting-the-world-factbook-as-we-bid-a-fond-farewell/

Es ist faszinierend wie schnell und wie viel dessen, was unsere Kultur und Gesellschaft ausgemacht hat, vernichtet werden kann. Mit Ankündigung.

Das Erbe des Neoliberalen "There's no Society" würde ich sagen. Auch wenn natürlich nichts daran verdient, "liberal" genannt zu werden.

#WorldFactbook #factbook #cia

Simon Willison (@simonw)

CIA가 더 이상 World Factbook을 공개하지 않자 작성자가 마지막으로 ZIP 형태로 배포된 2020판을 복원해 GitHub에 올렸다는 공지입니다. 공용 데이터셋 접근성에 변화가 있어 AI 연구·학습 데이터 수집, 재현성, 아카이브 보존에 영향을 줄 수 있으므로 개발자·연구자에게 유용한 데이터 소스 복제 소식입니다.

https://x.com/simonw/status/2019205790054416716

#dataset #worldfactbook #github #data

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 CIA just stopped publishing the World Factbook—probably because they realized facts are harder to redact than fiction.

Tag someone who needs this!

https://polititoons.com/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=polititoons_organic

#politics #satire #humor #politicalhumor #PoliticalSatire #CIAHumor #WorldFactbook

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.