It’s less than 90 gig to do a full backup. I can have the sum total of human knowledge on a 1TB external SDD, and still have room for Skyrim and my modlist.
Engywuck@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Wikipedia is the only piece of the internet I would save form apocalipse. Like, seriously.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Even less so if you exclude images
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Those images are important, I would keep them. Wikipedia just scrapes the surface of information, a picture can give a bigger insight.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 7 months ago
True, if you have the space by all means
guiguinofake@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
That’s only the text without any media. If you wanted to save all media on Wikimedia Commons, that would be about 420tb.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You get the images, just not audio or video files.
Frost752@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Is there an easy way of doing a full backup?
alphafalcon@feddit.de 8 months ago
Funnily enough, wikipedia has the answer
Frost752@lemmy.world 8 months ago
ah I see, ty lol
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
That’s interesting
stillwater@lemm.ee 8 months ago
IIRC this happens in the show or book of Station Eleven where a kid saves Wikipedia offline on his PS Vita (somehow) and it’s the only version of it out there post-apocalypse.
nucleative@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What if you need to remember how to procreate? I hear there are a number of informative videos about how to out there.
Engywuck@lemm.ee 8 months ago
But there aren’t on YouTube :-P
Emerald@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It would also be nice to have a p2p service to share all the things we have left.
JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Could work like the underground networks in Cuba (I say underground but apparently there’s wires everywhere?)
joneskind@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I bought an app by Wikimedia CH that allows to download the whole thing. It’s called Kiwix.
sir_reginald@lemmy.world 8 months ago
you “bought” kiwix? AFAIK it’s free
joneskind@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There is a paid version on the Mac AppStore to support the project
MightEnlightenYou@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, I have Wikipedia saved to a portable hard drive… Just in case
Engywuck@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I don’t know if you’re making fun of me, but, seriously, for me Wikipedia is an enormously valuable resource, much more than, for instance, YouTube (which I use, maybe, twice per year).
LuckyBoy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There is a lot of People with a copy of Wikipedia. Just for the case something happens. I dont think he is making fun of you.
Damaskox@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Some folks enjoy reading articles. Some folks enjoy to watch, listen and read (captions) at the same time. Some folks rather ask around and learn through conversations.
I’ve understood that it’s generally easier to learn new things when you use many different channels (audio, imagery etc). To many people but not to all.
MightEnlightenYou@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Wasn’t making fun of you, just agreeing with you and telling you my fix
rob64@startrek.website 8 months ago
I remember in the mid-aughts my brother hacked his iPod — the wheel kind, this was pre-iPhone — to hold the entirety of the text of English Wikipedia at the time.
DevilOfDoom@lemmy.one 8 months ago
How much data does it use?
joneskind@lemmy.world 8 months ago
According to my app, the whole English Wikipedia with pictures weighs 102.62GB, down to 60,06GB without.
There’s also a mini version that weighs 58,29GB but I don’t know what it contains
Wikipedia 1m Top Articles weighs 43,53GB
meekah@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Any idea how the 8gb from another comment might be achieved?