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Not a techie here, so if this is a dumb question, forgive me.
Wouldn't you need a LOT of bytes to download all of Wikipedia? Like significantly more than my computer has available?
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 @SnowshadowII @Darkphoenix @gleick thank you. This is one reason why I have been buying more books lately. I'm just getting to collecting the reference books that I want to have. This will definitely go into my files.  @arisummerland Books are always an excellent choice to keep on hand. @gekko3k @SnowshadowII @Darkphoenix @gleick sometimes I say apologies to the trees @arisummerland @gekko3k @SnowshadowII @Darkphoenix @gleick The #histodon I know keeps reminding me that nothing, absolutely *nothing*, currently used to store information beats printed paper for longevity. If you want something to survive your current cultural milieux, put it on archival paper, in a dry cave. Better yet, **move** to that dry cave, and start a religious organizataion which eschews technology and embraces food forests. @arisummerland @SnowshadowII @gleick I'm always looking for reference books on certain specialties, like herbs. I also kept all my textbooks from college. @Darkphoenix @gleick @Darkphoenix @gleick You still download it but using torrent prevents a massive traffic jam on the internet @SnowshadowII @Darkphoenix @gleick you used to be able to hack/make an "off-grid" wiki ... https://www.hackster.io/news/stay-informed-during-the-apocalypse-with-an-off-grid-wikipedia-device-b37332c7bc1d @martin_fff Edited to add: Perhaps you might be interested in adding US and tech hashtags to your reply? __________ @martin_fff @SnowshadowII @Darkphoenix @gleick You still can from the software side, the @kiwix software allows you to have your own offline copy 🙂 @hlabrande @martin_fff @SnowshadowII @gleick @kiwix  @martin_fff @SnowshadowII @Darkphoenix @gleick this stuff is no joke. Even if it has flaws it's one of the most important sites. Musk attacking it is a proof of value. @SnowshadowII @gleick and the volume is shared over several nodes. So kinda similar to block chains @Darkphoenix @SnowshadowII @gleick I have a 1TB passport drive. My 3rd*, because I have a massive music library, which, believe it or not, the majority of which was actually paid for. @SnowshadowII @gleick oh sorry, I'm in California, and I use Android phone and windows laptop @SnowshadowII @gleick funny thing, last time I checked the original one is still functional, and its about 15 yo. (Back then they actually looked like the old little red address books) @SnowshadowII @gleick again, thank you. And Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, etc. I'm off to go stir some shit about the congresswoman in a nursing home, who's still collecting a paycheck. @Darkphoenix @SnowshadowII @gleick The Wikipedia dumps everyone's talking about here are text-only, no images. As a result, the files are smaller than one might expect; under 30GB. Smaller than a Windows OS install, smaller than most triple-A games. Would fit on a modern smartphone easily. My local computer store often hands out USB drives bigger than that for free. So the data is safe enough, many copies can be made. It's the social network Wikipedia creates and is created by that's vulnerable.  @WesternInfidels @Darkphoenix @SnowshadowII @gleick and they only have the current versions of the articles. Not the history, not the talk pages, etc.  @Ash_Crow @WesternInfidels @Darkphoenix @SnowshadowII @gleick This. 👆 While just current versions may suffice for looking up information, the history is important to documenting provenance of the information, finding things that were already intentionally buried/rewritten (big example: "Web 2.0" rewritten to match crypto cult's contrast to their "Web 3.0" scam), etc.  No, you can actually easily fit its text on a hard disk or SSD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3ASize_of_Wikipedia There are some websites backed by data far too large for one computer to manage (commonly called “big data”), but Wikipedia is, somewhat surprisingly, not one of them. Although all the images and videos and such add to its size. Not sure how large those all are. @argv_minus_one @SnowshadowII @gleick  @Darkphoenix @SnowshadowII @gleick About 25gb for all of the text. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia @JustinH @SnowshadowII @gleick in 2019, my daughter was working in a geriatric care facility in TN, (I was working in CA as a in home caregiver) you know comparing notes, and she told me some serious horror stories. Things you wouldn't want to hear at dinner. @Darkphoenix @SnowshadowII @gleick 30 gb for a compressed dump of the english wiki text, excluding images.  @Darkphoenix |
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NOT a silly question. (there are NO silly tech questions)
Here's the solution:
https://fedifreu.de/@chpietsch/113710470289148980
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