TIL That the entirety of Wikipedia is only ~100Gb and you can download it for offline use
TIL That the entirety of Wikipedia is only ~100Gb and you can download it for offline use
In light of the recent Crowdstrike crash revealing how weak points in IT infrastructure can have wide ranging effects, I figured this might be an interesting one.
The entirety of wikipedia is periodically uploaded here, along with many other useful wikis and How To websites (ex. iFixit tutorials and WikiHow): https://download.kiwix.org/zim
You select the archive you want, then the language and archive version (for example, you can get an archive with no pictures, to save on space). For the totality of the english wikipedia you'd select the "wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2024-01.zim"
The archives are packed as .zim files, which can be read with the Kiwix app completely offline.
I have several USBs I keep that have some of these archives along with the app installer. In the event of some major catastrophe I'd at least be able to access some potentially useful information. I have no stake in Kiwix, and don't know if there are other alternative apps and schemes, just thought it was neat.
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I am currently reading on terrorists while in the states. But something tells me I will get my IP banning me. But I have read a shitton and I highly doubt its just 100gb. Otherwise you would see it more on piracy sites.
Otherwise you would see it more on piracy sites.
What on Earth do you mean? Piracy sites share things which aren't available easily for free otherwise.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
And the text only version of Wiki is just 22.14gb.
How high were you when you wrote this?
Currently where I am working can't get high. But can get drunk. But was neither when I wrote that. My ISP is very brutal on looking up stuff or downloading shit.
But it's freely and easily available to download, why would it be on piracy sites?
China is making a copy. For... reasons.
It doesn't include the images. So it's 100Gb of just text