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What is the estimated GBs of text data on wikipedia.com?

• christophe971 16y ago
  27 GB with markup: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download Probably 1/10th of that is real text data, so no more than 3 GB.
  • retroafroman 16y ago
    "(This is probably the one you want. The size of this dump is 6.07 GB compressed, approximately 27 GB uncompressed as of 2010-09-20.)" That's just the HTML, no user or talk pages.
  • alok-g 16y ago
    90% sounds to be too high an overhead. At 435 words per article [1] and 3553578 articles (English only) [2], it has ~1.5 billion words. At 5.1 letters per word and one extra for space, it comes out to 9.4 GB. With 27 GB uncompressed, even that sounds like too much overhead for markup, but maybe. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_comparisons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_comparisons [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics
• octopus 16y ago
  For the English version approximative 14GB archived, see this link for more information: http://dumps.wikimedia.org/ http://dumps.wikimedia.org/
  • frankydp 16y ago
    Thanks for this link. I always thought wikipedia should sell Annual Wikipedia DVD's. Something like a brittanica. EDIT: typo
  • joshmanders 16y ago
    For some reason that, and even overall size seems way lower than it should be.