The site’s volunteers face threats from Trump, billionaires, and AI.
  • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Wikipedia needs to leave the US at the least. Billionaires and AI pose a threat to all humans, and Wikipedia is no exception.

  • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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    3 months ago

    Do theverge have this big font or is something broken on my end?

    You can download the entirety of Wikipedia for offline usage, BTW. I do this with an application called Kiwix https://kiwix.org/en/ .

    1. Click “All Files” on the left menu of the program.
    2. In the bottom search bar (there is one top and one bottom bar) type “wikipedia” to show only those entries matching the search.
    3. Then click on the “Size” header to sort all entries by size. Usually the biggest one is the most complete.
    4. Now “Download” it (i already have it, so it says “Open” for me).

    Note that the big one with 111 GB contains images and contains all English language Wikipedia articles. The one with 43 GB should be the same I think, but without images. There are many other variants too, varying in content and theme and even build date. In example the one with “1m Top” contains the top 1 million articles only.

      • e0qdk@reddthat.com
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        3 months ago

        It doesn’t actually include all the media, and – I think – edit history. It does give you a decent offline copy of the articles with at least the thumbnails of images though.

        Edit: If you want all the media from Wikimedia Commons (which may also include files that are not in Wikipedia articles directly) the stats for that are:

        Total file size for all 126,598,734 files: 745,450,666,761,889 bytes (677.98 TB).

        according to their media statistics page.