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_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day agochill the fuck out, doomer. Wikipedia has enough cash on hand to survive for the next several decades, even if Trump takes away their non-profit status. he can throw a fit about them all he wants, the absolute worst case scenario here is they just move offices to somewhere in Europe.
As of 2025, the English Wikipedia has 63,040,591 pages. The current text content in all its pages is about 156 GB in size. When counting all the revisions in histories, the size is 26,455 GB (26 TB).
I’m sure many people have already archived this at the least.
That’s uncompressed, the compressed archive is just over 102GB. And yes, you can download the entirety of Wikipedia as a single archive, and they tell you how on Wikipedia itself. The easiest way is probably Kiwix.
And not just the whole thing, either, you can download specific topics, or the top 100 articles, or the whole thing in simple English without pictures, etc.
The 102GB includes pictures then? That’s insane.
I honestly don’t know, I’ve only downloaded the archive with the simple English articles and no pictures. that was only like 900mb or so. I imagine there’s some sort of image optimization that’s done on all images uploaded to the site. And when you think about it, most articles don’t actually have images with them. So the 102gb might be the whole thing.
I can say for sure that the archive does include at least some images, because it says it does. I do plan on downloading it at some point so I can make a local mirror of Wikipedia with my Raspberry Pi, but I haven’t bought a drive for it yet and don’t want to use one of the ones I have now for it because I have Ventoy and a bunch of ISOs on it.
LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 1 day ago
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
trump can’t do shit as long as people keep fighting him. doesn’t matter how many people he throws in prison or lines up against the wall, we beat fascism to a bloody pulp once before and we’ll do it again. I’m sorry if you’re so depressed about what’s happening that you’ve lost your will to fight, but take a breather if you need to because the rest of us have your back and will take over while you get better.
wikipedia is gonna live a lot longer than trump will, and there will come a day very soon when we’re dancing in the streets while he’s being laid to rest in the cold, hard ground. and no amount of MAGA bullshit or pessimism from people who have given up is gonna change that future.
LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 1 day ago
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Normally I would just mock you by pointing out that liberals stay in the tweets while leftists get out on the streets, but you’re obviously suffering from mental illness and I don’t think it’s very nice to make fun of people who are clearly having a mental breakdown, judging by your totally normal reaction.
As for BRICS, IDK why you even brought that up, but two of the biggest members are having active border clashes with each other, a third has depleted their conventional army due to their strategic genius in Ukraine, and two others want to fuck off and have nothing to do with any of the rest. But sure, instead of accepting that Trump is a symptom of the inherently flawed system WE built here in the United States, let’s just blame the most dysfunctional Wish.com EU knock-off trade partnership in the world cause that’s easier and we get to pretend our own shit doesn’t stink.
Also, hey @antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com, turns out it’s uh checks notes BRICS that’s censoring Wikipedia to convince you not to drink your own pee.
Yup, bunch of totally normal people in these comments.