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Unfortunately we had a small outage this weekend, but this is a good opportunity to remind everyone that you can download entire copies of #Wikipedia and other freely licensed projects for #offline use via #Kiwix! Check out @kiwix - https://www.kiwix.org and set it up on your smartphone or laptop or boat so you can access free knowledge wherever you go. 📷: The Goodall Family uses Kiwix on their boat while sailing the Pacific (CC BY-SA 3.0) 27 comments
@solarisfire @wikipedia @kiwix sounds like you need a tool to download Kiwix for offline usage 😅  @spinal @wikipedia @kiwix They're split by language/topic & there's also nopic (no pictures) and mini (lead section only) downloads that are smaller. I have 27 GB of zim files (wikipedia_en_all_mini, wiktionary_en_all_nopic, wikipedia_en_movies_maxi, wikipedia_en_mathematics_nopic, wikipedia_en_computer_nopic...) and I don't update them often (most recent change was adding mathematics in November). @kiwix @wikipedia @spinal although for some reason the Kiwix file is 100, probably has images  @enron @wikipedia @kiwix I was thinking that, or one of the other older netbooks. Was holding out hope there is a modern netbook out there :(  @vector1dev @caralice @wikipedia what that can literally fit on the extra space of my LEGALLY downloaded movies thumb drive
@wikipedia @caralice although for some reason the Kiwix file is 100, probably has images @caralice @wikipedia About 100GB apparently! library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng&q=… (But a lot less if you only want English articles.)
@caralice @wikipedia @spinal apparently, there's an article only version and its just 22 gigs. which I found surprisingly small  @caralice @wikipedia If you ignore wikimedia? Actually not that large at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download#Where_do_I_get_it? <100GB, it basically fits on any computer you buy these days. The full terabytes dump is also available. That is a bit more expensive but 12TB drives are readily available.  @wikipedia@wikis.world @kiwix@mastodon.social @wikipedia @kiwix At the moment I cannot load the Kiwix website, but I'm on mobile, and unfortunately Firefox nigtlyhas some issues, I believe. |
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@wikipedia @kiwix Although it looks like it's gone down...