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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 day ago (3 children)

All you selfhosters out there, this is the cue to make your mirrors

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Was weighing some options and think I'll be deploying this, thank you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

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?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Got my snapshot from Jan.

It's only 20gb.

You need an offline viewer. That's a snap /flat hub install. Kiwix I believe

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Says ~110gb for all of english version via kiwix. Did you exclude images or something?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Yes, they’re are different versions. Maxi is the 110GB one, there is also a nopic version that is quite a bit lighter.