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

• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Even less so if you exclude images

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  • 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.

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    • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      True, if you have the space by all means

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• 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.

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• Frost752@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is there an easy way of doing a full backup?

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  • alphafalcon@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Funnily enough, wikipedia has the answer

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

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    • Frost752@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      ah I see, ty lol

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s interesting

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