Yeah not gonna lie, i think i heard someone in a youtube video a while back talk about how the entirety of wikipedia takes up like 200 gigs or something like that, and it got me seriously considering to actually make that offline backup. Shit is scary when countries like the uk are basically blocking you from having easy access to knowledge.
Yeah, it’s surprisingly small when it’s compressed if you exclude things like images and media. It’s just text, after all. But the high level of compression requires special software to actually read without uncompressing the entire archive. There are dedicated devices you can get, which pretty much only do that. Like there are literal Wikipedia readers, where you just give it an archive file and it’ll allow you to search for and read articles.
If my experience with mashing the random article button is any indicator, you could reduce the size by 30% just by removing articles on sports players. I doubt I’ll need those
Yeah not gonna lie, i think i heard someone in a youtube video a while back talk about how the entirety of wikipedia takes up like 200 gigs or something like that, and it got me seriously considering to actually make that offline backup. Shit is scary when countries like the uk are basically blocking you from having easy access to knowledge.
https://library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng&category=wikipedia
Yeah, it’s surprisingly small when it’s compressed if you exclude things like images and media. It’s just text, after all. But the high level of compression requires special software to actually read without uncompressing the entire archive. There are dedicated devices you can get, which pretty much only do that. Like there are literal Wikipedia readers, where you just give it an archive file and it’ll allow you to search for and read articles.
if you remove topics you are not interessed it can shrink even more
Sure, but removing knowledge kind of goes against what creating a Wikipedia backup is about…
If my experience with mashing the random article button is any indicator, you could reduce the size by 30% just by removing articles on sports players. I doubt I’ll need those
Well, i doubt i will ever need to know anything about a football player or a car