It has been a few times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_forks_of_Wikip...

They seem to be specialized forks though, not actual recreations of the entire Wikipedia. We should have like an actual Mediawiki instance that forks the current Wikipedia content and maybe also leeches contributions off of it for some time to keep it up to date.

People often download it into offline storage, i dont see why we couldnt just make our own.

There are various reasons to avoid a fork. Having the resources to maintain such a site, spreading resources thin, and moving over or rebuilding a community of trusted editors are among them.

That said, I am one of the people who downloaded a copy of Wikipedia. It wasn't with the intent of working it. Rather, it was to wait out any political strife (since that is bound to happen with such a large and diverse audience).

Who's this "we" exactly? Who's going to host the infrastructure? I don't think it would be so trivial to "just make our own."

Kiwix and Protocol Labs have a mirror hosted on IPFS: https://ipfs.kiwix.org/

There's Internet In a Box and various other offline self hosted interfaces.

But of course there's a big difference between a mirror of the content and the whole community which updates and creates the content.

keywords : miraheze, wikioasis

It should be.

We should do a hard fork of Wikipedia and call it Openpedia or Openwiki probably.