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   billy joe bowers-8647 (billyjoebowers@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 21:55:31 JST billy joe bowers-8647

   @kaye

   Has anyone ever downloaded Wikipedia? Advice as to the best way?
   Anything else that might be handy like that?

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     panigrc (panigrc@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 21:55:31 JST panigrc

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     • Kiwix

     @billyjoebowers @kaye the only way I know is kiwix.org @kiwix

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     Jaifroid (jaifroid@mastodon.world)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 21:55:45 JST Jaifroid

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     @billyjoebowers @kaye Full English Wikipedia is ~97GB download. Best to torrent it (you can get torrent links from https://library.kiwix.org). Then use Kiwix software to read it (simplest is https://pwa.kiwix.org, an offline PWA, and there are desktop and mobile apps too). There are smaller "themed" versions like astronomy, chemistry, physics, maths, sociology, geography, etc.

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     Kermode (gemlog@tilde.zone)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 23:52:02 JST Kermode

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     @billyjoebowers
     I have an 80GB kiwix archive from 2 years ago, plus a few smaller ones. I just use wget with a bw limit, so it doesn't bother the rest of the house.

     @kaye

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