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Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive (www.theverge.com)
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[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 40 points 4 days ago (24 children)

Do theverge have this big font or is something broken on my end?

You can download the entirety of Wikipedia for offline usage, BTW. I do this with an application called Kiwix https://kiwix.org/en/ .

  1. Click "All Files" on the left menu of the program.
  2. In the bottom search bar (there is one top and one bottom bar) type "wikipedia" to show only those entries matching the search.
  3. Then click on the "Size" header to sort all entries by size. Usually the biggest one is the most complete.
  4. Now "Download" it (i already have it, so it says "Open" for me).

Note that the big one with 111 GB contains images and contains all English language Wikipedia articles. The one with 43 GB should be the same I think, but without images. There are many other variants too, varying in content and theme and even build date. In example the one with "1m Top" contains the top 1 million articles only.

[–] balder1993@programming.dev 4 points 4 days ago

Best thing is that it works flawlessly on the mobile apps as well, and Wikipedia also has a 1 million most relevant articles or so, which is just a few gigabytes.

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