Daft_ish@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year agoThey use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust.message-squaremessage-square340fedilinkarrow-up11.2Karrow-down1122
arrow-up11.08Karrow-down1message-squareThey use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust.Daft_ish@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square340fedilink
minus-squarejoneskind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17·edit-21 year agoAccording 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
minus-squaresilly goose meekah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·edit-21 year agoAny idea how the 8gb from another comment might be achieved? Edit: I guess zipping it should work pretty well
minus-squarejoneskind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoTBH I have no idea I just took a look at what my app is saying, but I didn’t dig into it
minus-squarecalcopiritus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year agoIt’s probably only the text. Images and videos weigh a lot more than text.
minus-squaresilly goose meekah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year ago According to my app, the whole English Wikipedia with pictures weighs 102.62GB, down to 60,06GB without. 60GB is still more than 8GB
minus-squareLuckyBoy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThe 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.
minus-squareJokeDeitylinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThis seems extremely small to me. You mean to tell me millions of articles, pieces of information, and the pictures/sounds/videos to accompany them all take up less data storage space than Red Dead Redemption 2?
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
Any idea how the 8gb from another comment might be achieved?
Edit: I guess zipping it should work pretty well
TBH I have no idea
I just took a look at what my app is saying, but I didn’t dig into it
It’s probably only the text. Images and videos weigh a lot more than text.
60GB is still more than 8GB
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.
This seems extremely small to me. You mean to tell me millions of articles, pieces of information, and the pictures/sounds/videos to accompany them all take up less data storage space than Red Dead Redemption 2?