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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.

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[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

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

[-] ace_garp@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

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

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 7 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

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