Yes you can download all of Wikipedia and yes it can easily fit in a hard drive. Isn't that amazing? Text is incredibly dense compared to images and video. Around 22 GiB for English Wikipedia alone and 56 GiB for the 10 languages I downloaded.

I also have all of Wiktionary in the same hard drive. It's around 16.4 GiB.

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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It also connects you to a huge swath of humanity and the editors that brought that content to you.

[–] droning_in_my_ears@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it's pretty incredible. Wikimedia is the kind of project that almost feels like a small glimpse into a better world. What the internet could have been. It's got some problems of course but it's still a huge success.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Uh, wikipedia is what the internet is.

Wikipedia’s not a glimpse of a better world, it’s a glimpse of our current, existing world. Because wikipedia exists.

It’s not like that hard drive came through a portal from another universe.