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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
Or you can always grab a torrent: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents
Also make sure to seed, preferably on a dedicated machine with an unmetered connection and high bandwidth.
Is that just the English version or all languages?
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.
True, but it depends who's going the refining. If they start censoring or changing facts, then the static instance on your hard drive has huge value.
Fortunately they don't on Wikipedia
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)
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.
Is that the medialess version or with images?
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
120GB is with photos and not video.
Bless
Repost of: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/12154129
Why thank you!