Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to Technology@lemmy.world · 1 month agoWikipedia is resilient because it is boringwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square59fedilinkarrow-up1744arrow-down19file-textcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.orgtechnology@beehaw.org
arrow-up1735arrow-down1external-linkWikipedia is resilient because it is boringwww.theverge.comAatube@kbin.melroy.org to Technology@lemmy.world · 1 month agomessage-square59fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.orgtechnology@beehaw.org
The world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack.
minus-squaredwzap@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·1 month agoApps such as https://kiwix.org/ uses the data dumps regularly made available by the Wikimedia Foundation at https://dumps.wikimedia.org/. The entire Wikipedia might be large, especially with images, but e.g English Wikipedia without images is a couple of 10s of GB.
Apps such as https://kiwix.org/ uses the data dumps regularly made available by the Wikimedia Foundation at https://dumps.wikimedia.org/.
The entire Wikipedia might be large, especially with images, but e.g English Wikipedia without images is a couple of 10s of GB.