• Engywuck@lemm.ee
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      I don’t know if you’re making fun of me, but, seriously, for me Wikipedia is an enormously valuable resource, much more than, for instance, YouTube (which I use, maybe, twice per year).

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        There is a lot of People with a copy of Wikipedia, it only takes 8GB. Just for the case something happens. I dont think he is making fun of you.

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        Some folks enjoy reading articles. Some folks enjoy to watch, listen and read (captions) at the same time. Some folks rather ask around and learn through conversations.

        I’ve understood that it’s generally easier to learn new things when you use many different channels (audio, imagery etc). To many people but not to all.

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        According to my app, the whole English Wikipedia with pictures weighs 102.62GB, down to 60,06GB without.

        There’s also a mini version that weighs 58,29GB but I don’t know what it contains

        Wikipedia 1m Top Articles weighs 43,53GB

        kiwix

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      I remember in the mid-aughts my brother hacked his iPod — the wheel kind, this was pre-iPhone — to hold the entirety of the text of English Wikipedia at the time.