- Whats going on with Wikipedia asking for donations and . . . - Reddit
A subreddit to help you keep up to date with what's going on with reddit and other stuff
- What is the longest Wikipedia Article? : r wikipedia - Reddit
The longest Wikipedia article is List of Glagolitic manuscripts, which is 1,325,631 bytes long The average length of a Wikipedia article is about 658 words The English Wikipedia has 6,714,921 articles, which contain over 4 3 billion words Wikipedia is edited over 2 times every second, 547 new articles are added each day
- LPT: You can download the ENTIRETY of Wikipedia to be . . . - Reddit
Since Wikipedia is open source, there are many ways to download the entire database listed here with instructions, including an SQL database, HTML dumps, and anywhere else you can download it, with slimmed down versions specifically to fit on a flash drive or a set of DVDs, or downloads without images less popular pages in order to make the download smaller The easiest way by far is to use
- I maintain a list of 500+ of my favourite Wikipedia articles and . . .
I maintain a personal list of what I consider to be some of the most interesting Wikipedia articles and, having recently reached 500 entries, I figured I'd share it You can find it here Fair warning, many of the articles are macabre with a lot of murders, disasters and disappearances scattered throughout the list
- [Megathread] Wikipedia Donations: Discussions and Q A
Meta details: During donation drives, r wikipedia gets a large influx of repeat questions, screenshots of donations, and fun arguments This megathread serves to consolidate all of this to help people get their questions answered and participate in a more centralized discussion
- Latest Wikipedia zim dump (97 GB) is available for download
As a reminder, Kiwix is an offline reader: once you download your zim file (Wikipedia, StackOverflow or whatever) you can browse it without any further need for internet connectivity There's much talk that one could fit Wikipedia into 21 Gb, but that would be a text-only, compressed and unformatted (ie not human readable) dump
- YSK its free to download the entirety of Wikipedia and its . . . - Reddit
There used to be an under 4gb zip file of all of Wikipedia text that was used on an offline Wikipedia device called wikireader It was able to browse and pull directly from the zip file with out uncompressing it all
- Wikipedia is great, their donation request is not. . . - Reddit
While Wikipedia is written by volunteers, hosting isn't free, and neither is all the other work we do to make sure Wikipedia continues growing for many years to come We're building this not just for today, but for generations to come That's why we're inviting you to support the not-for-profit organization that keeps Wikipedia online
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