Well not quite but close. I’m holding a hard disk that has ALL of Wikipedia’s text in 10 different languages.
Yes you can download all of Wikipedia and yes it can easily fit in a hard drive. Isn’t that amazing? Text is incredibly dense compared to images and video. Around 22 GiB for English Wikipedia alone and 56 GiB for the 10 languages I downloaded.
I also have all of Wiktionary in the same hard drive. It’s around 16.4 GiB.
Not the sum. The summary.
Last time I looked into downloading Wikipedia it said it was 50gb for English text and 100 with images. How’d you get it for half the space?
The dictionaries for Aard2 are 21gb in .slob compressed format (text only).
No idea what that means. But thank you for adding more info.
Slob compression is best visualized as putting a sleeping bag into a stuff sack, except it’s all your possessions and you’re stuffing them into an old Chevy Metro
It also connects you to a huge swath of humanity and the editors that brought that content to you.
Yeah it’s pretty incredible. Wikimedia is the kind of project that almost feels like a small glimpse into a better world. What the internet could have been. It’s got some problems of course but it’s still a huge success.
Uh, wikipedia is what the internet is.
Wikipedia’s not a glimpse of a better world, it’s a glimpse of our current, existing world. Because wikipedia exists.
It’s not like that hard drive came through a portal from another universe.
