Ya tonight Im gonna start torrenting one of the backups. I don’t normally seed more than 2x ratio but I think this one will be set to trickle seed and stay on for at least 10x
Yeah, the entire compressed thing is only ~40GB if you exclude media like photos, audio files, videos, etc, so it’s surprisingly easy to keep a local backup. You need some specialized software to be able to read the compressed data without fully unzipping it, but the software is FOSS so anyone can use it. Even if you include images, the file is only like 120GB, which is easy for anyone with a NAS. I’ve had the 40GB version on my NAS for a while, and happily leave it to seed.
Ya tonight Im gonna start torrenting one of the backups. I don’t normally seed more than 2x ratio but I think this one will be set to trickle seed and stay on for at least 10x
Yeah, the entire compressed thing is only ~40GB if you exclude media like photos, audio files, videos, etc, so it’s surprisingly easy to keep a local backup. You need some specialized software to be able to read the compressed data without fully unzipping it, but the software is FOSS so anyone can use it. Even if you include images, the file is only like 120GB, which is easy for anyone with a NAS. I’ve had the 40GB version on my NAS for a while, and happily leave it to seed.
please do if you have the storage space and bandwith
How big is the torrent, and where do I download from?
40G if you don’t download pics. Closer to 100G with pics (apparently 115G at the moment)
See: library.kiwix.org
Kiwix is the simplest way to host a local Wikipedia backup
I’ma let one of you who has 40 spare gigs of HDD space do it
Going to kick this off tonight and seed for a good long while. I got you fam.
I’ve got a copy on a hard drive and one on my phone
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents#English_Wikipedia