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Re: Wikipedia downloadable
Cool, but 9.7 GB!!!!!!! I don't have space for that on my ihpne. Would be nice, tyhogh.
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Cool, now I can finally print it out! 
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Well, it's not like this wasn't possible one year ago already. 
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Re: Wikipedia downloadable
What's the use? Tomorrow it's water under the bridge.
Maybe, in thousand years, it's valuable like a old book today.
Maybe, in thousand years, it's valuable like a old book today.
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only 9.7gb ? Must be horribly cut-down.
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AgreeZach wrote:only 9.7gb ? Must be horribly cut-down.
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the one I downloaded was 18+GB
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Updated link, please?jack wrote:the one I downloaded was 18+GB
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The link says it's only the text of Wikipedia.Zach wrote:only 9.7gb ? Must be horribly cut-down.
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Still, I would expect even the text to be a lot more data than that. I thought they claimed the project was several peta-bytes worth of data at one point?
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Wouldn't petabytes of text compress down in an archive really well, though?
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http://download.kiwix.org/portable/wiki ... _nopic.zipPsychophanta wrote:Updated link, please?jack wrote:the one I downloaded was 18+GB