Basically the title. The fact that we can read an encyclopedia entry on the economic history of the Netherlands from our phone is crazy. Scrolling over to a random island in the middle of the Atlantic to experience a virtual street tour is insane. There are even websites that let you see live security camera footage (shoutout to EarthCamTV). We have so much information that we take for granted.

  • TheSladEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago

    How big is all of (english) wikipedia? I really have no gauge on this. Couple of terabytes? Petabytes??

    • VarykEnglish
      26·
      2 months ago

      they have different tiers, mostly separated by how many pictures are included.

      when I used the archives, the smallest was almost 3 GB, and the largest was 80 GB?

      let me check.

      full wikipedia is 110GB now.

      Wikipedia in simple English is still only 2 and 1/2 GB.

      here are all the libraries in English:

      https://library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng&category=wikipedia

      • TheSladEnglish
        10·
        2 months ago

        Wow I really thought it would be bigger, I was way off!

        • VarykEnglish
          15·
          2 months ago

          I couldn’t believe it. back when I first got it, maybe a decade ago, I think it was only around 45 or 50 GB.

          I was very confused, and figured okay, I’ll just download all of Wikipedia.

          and then I freaking had all of Wikipedia on my phone for years and it was amazing.

          every time there was a reference I didn’t get, every time there was anything I didn’t get, I pulled up Wikipedia and boom there it was.

          and I travel a lot, so I don’t always have data, but I had Wikipedia offline.

          it truly is amazing!

          this is really make me want to get an expandable storage phone again.

    • SomeAmateurEnglish
      51·
      2 months ago

      It depends on what you want. I’ll look on kiwix right now.

      All of it with pictures is 102 Gigs

      The top 100 articles are 368 MB