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All you selfhosters out there, this is the cue to make your mirrors
No need
Install the free offline reader software from here
https://kiwix.org/en/
Then grab what content you want from https://dumps.wikimedia.org/kiwix/zim/
Here's English Wikipedia, with pictures from 2024 https://dumps.wikimedia.org/kiwix/zim/wikipedia/)wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2024-01.zim
names with maxi have all the pictures names with mini few pictures and abridged content names with nopic have no pictures and abridged content
if it says science or basketball, it's just things flagged as science or things flagged as basketball.
Was weighing some options and think I'll be deploying this, thank you.
Just started, great suggestion.
I can't believe this shit. 2023 me wouldn't believe I'd be doing half of the things I'm doing now.
Just wait til 2025 you couldn't possibly believe what '27's got in stock :p
Though, any server schenanagins That may interest me for some hypotheical good in the world?
Got my snapshot from Jan.
It's only 20gb.
You need an offline viewer. That's a snap /flat hub install. Kiwix I believe
Says ~110gb for all of english version via kiwix. Did you exclude images or something?
Yes, they’re are different versions. Maxi is the 110GB one, there is also a nopic version that is quite a bit lighter.