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.

  • WarmSoda@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    10 months ago

    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?

    • droning_in_my_ears@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      9·
      10 months ago

      It’s only the raw text in json line files. No media and no markup. I think I downloaded a compressed dump then used wikiextractor to extract the text.

        • ace_garp@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          OK yes, some supporting info is: Aard2 is an offline wikipedia app, that uses small compressed data files in .slob format.

        • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          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