Yeah, it’s surprisingly small when it’s compressed if you exclude things like images and media. It’s just text, after all. But the high level of compression requires special software to actually read without uncompressing the entire archive. There are dedicated devices you can get, which pretty much only do that. Like there are literal Wikipedia readers, where you just give it an archive file and it’ll allow you to search for and read articles.
If my experience with mashing the random article button is any indicator, you could reduce the size by 30% just by removing articles on sports players. I doubt I’ll need those
Yeah, it’s surprisingly small when it’s compressed if you exclude things like images and media. It’s just text, after all. But the high level of compression requires special software to actually read without uncompressing the entire archive. There are dedicated devices you can get, which pretty much only do that. Like there are literal Wikipedia readers, where you just give it an archive file and it’ll allow you to search for and read articles.
if you remove topics you are not interessed it can shrink even more
Sure, but removing knowledge kind of goes against what creating a Wikipedia backup is about…
Well, i doubt i will ever need to know anything about a football player or a car
“Fellow survivors, oh my God! What are your names?”
“I’m OJ Simpson. This is my friend Aaron Hernandez. And this is his car, Christine.”
If my experience with mashing the random article button is any indicator, you could reduce the size by 30% just by removing articles on sports players. I doubt I’ll need those