Imagine having a collection of Wikipedia backups and disclosing that on a first date.
What are we reading today, babe? 2020q1, the Covid hoaxes? Yeah, that’s the shit.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s a good thing that lots of people have full backups of wikipedia.
I saved a copy for myself at the start of 2025. It took about 23GB of space if I’m remembering right. Maybe I’ll burn a blu-ray copy for long term storage
altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Is that the compressed version? Kiwix’s latest copy is roughly 100GB including images.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s right, I forgot about that. It was 23.1 GB compressed for the “enwiki - pages-articles-multistream” version that includes pictures.
Uncompressed and set up with XOWA viewer it’s about 70 GB
Kissaki@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
It was probably a sunset of languages. Only EN is much smaller than full with all languages.
Slashme@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Wikipedia isn’t important because of its data. Rather because of the fact it is continuously updated, extended, and fixed at a gigantic scale.
If Wikipedia ever dies, its information will lose relevance by the day. After a decade or two without a similar-scale replacement, will anyone even care?
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No, the data itself is inherently valuable even when it’s a little bit dated. We don’t need daily updates to learn about historical events, methods of irrigation, 20th century election results, mineral composition of transistors and diodes, and millions of other well-documented topics. It’s an incredible resource of collected knowledge with immense inherent value.