No, you really can’t; It’s like 43 gb the text only version
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MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Isn’t it possible to download all of wikipedia, and it being surprisenly a small file size? Can it fit on a CD?
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
BanMe@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So gonna need like 2 CDs then
puppycat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
yes you really can; it’s like 20-25 gb depending on how recent of a copy you have. I’ve been seeding wikipedia for almost a year and it barely takes any space on my computer
SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
No
(English) 24,05GB without media. Adding media adds 428,36TB.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
Can you give me the text only version link? I found only a version tgat is like 43gb
SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
The sizes I mentioned are from around 2023-2024, from en.wikipedia.org/…/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia
dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/ (en.wikipedia.org/…/Wikipedia:Database_download)
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I suggest the happy medium called Kiwix, directly from the programme you can download all of Wikipedia with medium-sized pictures for a hundred gigabytes or so.
J_on_LemmyML@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
KiwiX on mobile gives 111.1GB Wikipedia download, It also has a bunch of diff categories if you don’t want the super large one.
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
500TB is still surprisingly reasonable for what is essentially a library of human (surface level) knowledge.
It would be interesting to know how large the file would be including all Text Form references (i’d imagine anything else such as videos would completely blow the proportions)
rain_worl@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
kiwix? that’s compressed (afaik), and when i tried, it took up half of my disk space and needed ethernet
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
It could fit on a BDXL disc.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
You can fit text-only wikipedia on a normal Blu Ray as it’s only about 24GB. You can also easily fit Llama 3.1 or any of the other open, offline capable ai models as they’re only about 4GB.
gustofwind@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
could also store it on a flashdrive or micro sd card