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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. 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

  3. 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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