Well not quite but close. I’m holding a hard disk that has ALL of Wikipedia’s text in 10 different languages.

Yes you can download all of Wikipedia and yes it can easily fit in a hard drive. Isn’t that amazing? Text is incredibly dense compared to images and video. Around 22 GiB for English Wikipedia alone and 56 GiB for the 10 languages I downloaded.

I also have all of Wiktionary in the same hard drive. It’s around 16.4 GiB.

  • WarmSodaEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    No idea what that means. But thank you for adding more info.

    • ace_garp@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      OK yes, some supporting info is: Aard2 is an offline wikipedia app, that uses small compressed data files in .slob format.

    • intensely_humanEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      Slob compression is best visualized as putting a sleeping bag into a stuff sack, except it’s all your possessions and you’re stuffing them into an old Chevy Metro