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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. Article Ownership by Russ1642 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It comes with software that automatically reverts your edits and insults you.

    1. Re:Article Ownership by bradorsomething · · Score: 5, Funny

      It comes with software that automatically reverts your edits and insults you.

      Citation Needed.

    2. Re:Article Ownership by sjwt · · Score: 5, Funny

      It comes with software that automatically reverts your edits and insults you.

      Citation Needed.

      1 http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4488409&cid=45527247

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  2. Finally! by lagomorpha2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Finally I can have my own version of wikipedia so I can correct all those changes I haven't been allowed to enter into the official version!

    1. Re:Finally! by Arancaytar · · Score: 4, Insightful

      That's pretty much impossible to get into now (as a new editor), because you're either banned for being too sane to pass ideological purity, or banned for being so insane you're mistaken for a troll.

  3. Re:Rats. It won't QUITE fit on a microSD card... by vux984 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Rats. It won't QUITE fit on a microSD card...

    Just exclude the star trek / star wars related entries; that should pare it down. And besides we all have it all committed to memory anyway right? :p

  4. legitimizing torrents by stenvar · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's a good thing. The more we use torrents for the distribution of legitimate content, the more such distribution methods will become legitimized.

  5. Re:No internet connection required! by jellomizer · · Score: 4, Funny

    I prefer ZModem myself.

    But if you don't have that you can probably use XModem.

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  6. Re:2013-11-04 by QilessQi · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, ISO 8601 dates (YYYY-MM-DD) are unambiguous: far better than the ambiguous AA/BB/YYYY notation, since Americans interpret it as MM/DD/YYYY but in some other countries it's regarded as DD/MM/YYYY.

    As an added plus, a lexical sorting of YYYY-MM-DD dates is also a temporal sorting. Not so with either of the other two formats.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

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  7. 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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