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Have 100GB Free? Host Your Own Copy of Wikipedia, With Images

Posted by timothy on from the put-it-in-every-router dept.

First time accepted submitter gnosygnu writes "Want your own copy of English Wikipedia with images? Got 100 GB of disk space? Then open-source app XOWA may be of interest to you. The project released torrents yesterday for the 2013-11-04 version of English Wikipedia. There's 100 GB of sqlite databases containing 13.9 million pages, and 3.7 million images — readable from any Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X system. Image downloads for other wikis are building, but you can still use XOWA to read the text-only version for other wikis like Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikiquote and 660 more. Next time you find yourself stranded without the internet, you can pull out your own copy of Wikipedia for use."

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  1. Quite a bit smaller than I'd have thought. by caveat · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'd have put en.wikipedia at at least a couple of terabytes. Not inconceivably large, but with some housecleaning I could actually get 100GB free.

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  2. Don't Panic by Covalent · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Next year or so 100GB phones will be commonplace...and you will have your Hitchhiker's Guide.

    Truly amazing times we live in.

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  3. Revisions? by hendrikboom · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Presumably the wikipedia is under revision control.
    Does this give you the whole thing so that you can forever after sync with the master?
    Or just the most recent versions of the articles?
    Should there be a bittorrent for syncing huge revision control data bases?