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- Whats going on with Wikipedia asking for donations and . . . - Reddit
They believe that the only way for Wikipedia to remain able to keep their current neutral status is to get donations from the public rather than payments from companies It costs a lot of money to keep Wikipedia going, to pay for the computers running 24 7 and the staff that maintains them That money has to come from somewhere
- Reddit - Dive into anything
Reddit is a network of communities where people can dive into their interests, hobbies and passions There's a community for whatever you're interested in on Reddit
- LPT: You can download the ENTIRETY of Wikipedia to be . . . - Reddit
The English Wikipedia zim file weighs about 94 Gb because it is highly compressed (zim stands for Zeno Improved, which is an open source fork of a compression format) and images are only shown as thumbnails (i e not clickable) Files could probably be fairly smaller, but about two years ago we decided to include the index within the zim file
- What is the longest Wikipedia Article? : r wikipedia - Reddit
The longest Wikipedia article is List of Glagolitic manuscripts, which is 1,325,631 bytes long The average length of a Wikipedia article is about 658 words The English Wikipedia has 6,714,921 articles, which contain over 4 3 billion words Wikipedia is edited over 2 times every second, 547 new articles are added each day
- I maintain a list of 500+ of my favourite Wikipedia articles . . . - Reddit
Several Wikipedia users keep lists like this on their user pages, here are a few: wtf Strange and Interesting Mysteries user:Temporaryachilles user:The cat theif Of course these are mostly very well known true crime mysteries and Forteana, with lots of overlap between the lists, but there may be some unusual items too
- YSK its free to download the entirety of Wikipedia and its . . . - Reddit
It appears English Wikipedia would not be 6 million pages It is currently 6,694,000+ articles! And I like old school encyclopedias with short little entries- the average wikipedia article is 1,813 words- which is several pages each So basically triple to quadruple the numbers above Print Wikipedia was over 7,000 volumes back in 2015
- Hilarious Edits Found on Wikipedia - Reddit
The Wikipedia page of Boeing after the death of Josh Dean u FalloutNVislife ADMIN MOD
- Latest Wikipedia zim dump (97 GB) is available for download
As a reminder, Kiwix is an offline reader: once you download your zim file (Wikipedia, StackOverflow or whatever) you can browse it without any further need for internet connectivity There's much talk that one could fit Wikipedia into 21 Gb, but that would be a text-only, compressed and unformatted (ie not human readable) dump
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