That’s highly dependent on how many, or which, languages you download, I think.
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OboTheHobo@ttrpg.network 1 month ago
Fyi everyone: you can download the entirety of Wikipedia yourself from kiwix and that it’s only about 50gb for the whole thing, 100 with all images.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
OboTheHobo@ttrpg.network 1 month ago
This is true, I was referring to english wikipedia.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
it will be out of date in an hour
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Doesnt matter really if you have nothing at one point.
SulaymanF@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Most of Wikipedia articles hardly change over time. The entry for potassium for example, or Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. The controversial or recent current events topics get most updates.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I used my old Grollier’s Multimedia Encyclopedia CD for years.
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Any entry that is changing hourly (or even monthly) is probably not a topic you should be relying on an encyclopedia entry for anyway. Use the tool for what the tool is good for.
turdburglar@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
got a link or instructions? i’ll do it tomorrow as the next step on my self hosting journey.
agroqirax@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Docker setup instructions: github.com/kiwix-tools/docker/server/README.md
Download sim files from library.kiwix.org
turdburglar@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
thank yewwww.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
There is also apps like Aard2 that allow you to have all of wikipedia (no images duh) offline on your phone. github.com/itkach/aard2-android
Its a general dictionary type app so it supports things other than wikipedia too. There is a link to the dictionary files in the readme on that github, but it can be confusing.
If you have 23GB of space and your storage isnt fat32 formatted: …halifax.rwth-aachen.de/…/enwiki20250801-slob/
If it is fat32 then you gotta download it in 4GB chunks: …rwth-aachen.de/…/enwiki20250801-vol-slob/
The downside to this is that i (you?) often want very recent fresh info from wikipedia and this obviously doesnt work well for that because it doesnt support updating in a way where you only have to download the changes. If somebody knows of an app that supports this, where you only have to download a couple MB of changes every day to keep the entire thing up to date let me know.