Comment on They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust.

Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• MightEnlightenYou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah, I have Wikipedia saved to a portable hard drive… Just in case

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  • Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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).

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    • LuckyBoy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • Damaskox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • MightEnlightenYou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Wasn’t making fun of you, just agreeing with you and telling you my fix

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  • rob64@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • DevilOfDoom@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How much data does it use?

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    • joneskind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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      • meekah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Any idea how the 8gb from another comment might be achieved?

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• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Even less so if you exclude images

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    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Those images are important, I would keep them. Wikipedia just scrapes the surface of information, a picture can give a bigger insight.

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      • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        True, if you have the space by all means

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  • guiguinofake@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s only the text without any media. If you wanted to save all media on Wikimedia Commons, that would be about 420tb.

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You get the images, just not audio or video files.

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  • Frost752@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Is there an easy way of doing a full backup?

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    • alphafalcon@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Funnily enough, wikipedia has the answer

      en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Wikipedia:Database_download

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      • Frost752@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        ah I see, ty lol

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s interesting

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• stillwater@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• nucleative@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What if you need to remember how to procreate? I hear there are a number of informative videos about how to out there.

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  • Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But there aren’t on YouTube :-P

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• Emerald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It would also be nice to have a p2p service to share all the things we have left.

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  • JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Could work like the underground networks in Cuba (I say underground but apparently there’s wires everywhere?)

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• joneskind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I bought an app by Wikimedia CH that allows to download the whole thing. It’s called Kiwix.

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  • sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    you “bought” kiwix? AFAIK it’s free

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    • joneskind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There is a paid version on the Mac AppStore to support the project

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