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[–] 85 points 2 years ago (13 children)

In case anyone doesn't know, you can download all of Wikipedia of you have 120GB of space. You can download a whole bunch of wikis straight off Kiwix.

I refuse to let the fascists control knowledge

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I refuse to let the fascists control knowledge

    Wikipedia isn't just useful as a repository of information. Its useful because editors are constantly adding and refining the information within. Downloading a singular instance of the site is like owning an Encyclopedia. Diminished utility year-by-year.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Thanks for this PSA, it's stunning how we used to have encyclopedias in our studies but now no one collects the physical offline copies (which includes an archive of Wikipedia)

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    no one collects the physical offline copies

    I've still got my dad's 1957 encyclopedia in a storage closet somewhere. Another one from 1981 is floating around somewhere. But they take up enormous amounts of space and don't do a great job of self-updating, nevermind searching or re-indexing.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Is that the medialess version or with images?

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I think at 120GB that is the with media version. You can also get a medialess version as well. There's a wiki for how to download wikipedia if you want more info:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    [...] you can find the data here: https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/kiwix/zim/wikipedia/

    The latest (January 2024) total dump for Wikipedia (English) is: wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2024-01.zim

    …but there’s other languages and sizes available as well.

    Repost of: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/12154129

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