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Eintrag vom: 16.03.2013.

As a reminder Kiwix is an offline reader: once you download your zim file (Wikipedia StackOverflow or whatever) you can browse it without any further need for internet connectivity. There's much talk that one could fit Wikipedia into 21 Gb but that would be a text-only compressed and unformatted (ie not human readable) dump.

 

Downloading Wikipedia is great and all but it has little useful information in case of emergency. Actually a lot of coverage of everyday subjects is kind of bad because there are fewer easily accessible reliable sources those articles don't get as many good edits as more academic subjects do.

 

For context I am a beginner at editing Wikipedia and having doing so for a year up until now. I have been blocked for a year for reasons that were given by an administrator after I attempted an appeal:

 

Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna's_Archive If you want to help out you can translate this article to more languages so that we can safely link to Anna's Archive in other languages.

 

The longest Wikipedia article is List of Glagolitic manuscripts which is 1 325 631 bytes long. The average length of a Wikipedia article is about 658 words. The English Wikipedia has 6 714 921 articles which contain over 4.3 billion words. Wikipedia is edited over 2 times every second 547 new articles are added each day.

 

All revisions on Wikipedia have a permanent link. The edits are publicly viewable for everyone on the internet to see. Actually use the function of this site to post links to enable more discussion and exposure to the vandalism.

 

I maintain a personal list of what I consider to be some of the most interesting Wikipedia articles and having recently reached 500 entries I figured I'd share it. You can find it here. Fair warning many of the articles are macabre with a lot of murders disasters and disappearances scattered throughout the list.

 

Since Wikipedia is open source there are many ways to download the entire database listed here with instructions including an SQL database HTML dumps and anywhere else you can download it with slimmed down versions specifically to fit on a flash drive or a set of DVDs or downloads without images/less popular pages in order to make the download smaller. The easiest way by far is to use ...

 

A subreddit to help you keep up to date with what's going on with reddit and other stuff.

 

EDIT: Oh Dear! It appears English Wikipedia would not be 6 million pages. It is currently 6 694 000+ articles! And I like old school encyclopedias with short little entries- the average wikipedia article is 1 813 words- which is several pages each. So basically triple to quadruple the numbers above. Print Wikipedia was over 7 000 volumes back ...