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They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust. (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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[–] 86 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

Wikipedia is the only piece of the internet I would save from apocalipse. Like, seriously.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    There is a lot of People with a copy of Wikipedia, it only takes 8GB. Just for the case something happens. I dont think he is making fun of you.

    Edit: this 8 GB was 10 years ago. From another article from 2022 it says 150Gb.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years 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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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    How much data does it use?

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    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

    kiwix

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

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

    Edit: I guess zipping it should work pretty well

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    The other comment checked a 10 year reddit link but didnt notice the date untill it went to search for it again because of this thread. Dumbass!

    Source: it was I, the guy that did the comment.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Even less so if you exclude images

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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