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this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2025
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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It's starting to feel like I need to download a snapshot of Wikipedia now before it gets worse.
Here's their page of instructions, written as usual by the children who really liked programming the family VCR:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
I recommend just using https://kiwix.org/en/
It's... suboptimal, but it's about the least finicky way to get a compressed local copy of Wikipedia with all the article photos (~100GB).
It's updated less frequently than the big dumps, but easier to use.
I second kiwix. It's dead easy for managing and making copies of wiki images.