Comment on Wikipedia in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise

pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Canconda@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ya tonight Im gonna start torrenting one of the backups. I don’t normally seed more than 2x ratio but I think this one will be set to trickle seed and stay on for at least 10x

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  • e8CArkcAuLE@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    please do if you have the storage space and bandwith

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How big is the torrent, and where do I download from?

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      • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        40G if you don’t download pics. Closer to 100G with pics

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      • e8CArkcAuLE@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents#English_Wikipedia

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  • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, the entire compressed thing is only ~40GB if you exclude media like photos, audio files, videos, etc, so it’s surprisingly easy to keep a local backup. You need some specialized software to be able to read the compressed data without fully unzipping it, but the software is FOSS so anyone can use it. Even if you include images, the file is only like 150GB, which is easy for anyone with a NAS.

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