Comment on Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring

OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• dwzap@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Apps such as kiwix.org uses the data dumps regularly made available by the Wikimedia Foundation at dumps.wikimedia.org.

  The entire Wikipedia might be large, especially with images, but e.g English Wikipedia without images is a couple of 10s of GB.

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  • oce@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    As of 7 September 2025, there are 7,052,247 articles in the English Wikipedia containing over 4.9 billion words (giving a mean of about 706 words per article). The total number of pages is 63,983,130. Articles make up 11.02 percent of all pages on Wikipedia. As of 16 October 2024, the size of the current version including all articles compressed is about 24.05 GB without media. en.wikipedia.org/…/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia

    The following graphic illustrates how large the English Wikipedia might be if the articles (without images and other multimedia content) were to be printed and bound in book form with a format similar to Encyclopædia Britannica. Each volume is assumed to be 25 cm (9.8 in) tall, 5 cm (2.0 in) thick, and containing 1,600,000 words or 8,000,000 characters. The size of this illustration is based upon the live article count manually adjusted by the average word count on an irregular basis on a user subpage of the graphic’s creator Tompw. The growth rate is approximately one full volume every three days if the increase in average article size isn’t accounted for over time. The print volumes as shown in the illustration would take up just over 9.34 m3 (330 cu ft) in total volume.

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• nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  downloading it is fine but i don’t think the contents of wikipedia are so thoroughly archived that i doubt it will ever become “lost media”

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