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[–] joneskind@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] meekah@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Any idea how the 8gb from another comment might be achieved?

Edit: I guess zipping it should work pretty well

[–] joneskind@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

TBH I have no idea

I just took a look at what my app is saying, but I didn’t dig into it

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's probably only the text. Images and videos weigh a lot more than text.

[–] meekah@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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

60GB is still more than 8GB

[–] LuckyBoy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The other comment checked a 10 year reddit link but didnt notice the date untill it went to search for it again because of this thread. Dumbass!

Source: it was I, the guy that did the comment.