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Most downloads of the entire Wikipedia per country

45 points by WithinReason 5y ago

fragmede 5y ago
Interesting that Russia is at almost 2x the next country (USA).
- nisegami 5y ago
  Curiously, that's the relationship between the first and second highest frequencies for the Zipfian distribution. However, third place and beyond are much smaller than they should be under that distribution.
- WithinReason 5y ago
  There have been worries that Russia might soon ban Wikipedia, so people have been downloading it
- nperez 5y ago
  I'd do exactly this if I were worried about losing connectivity
- davidgerard 5y ago
  Russia has already written to the Wikimedia Foundation demanding that they take down Russian Wikipedia's well-sourced and factual article on the cough special operation. Wikimedia said "lol no," of course.
- pauldd7 5y ago
  They are getting a lot of traffic from the tjournal.ru domain looking at the stats. They seem to host a Russian article explaining how to download Wikipedia, expecting it soon to be blocked. You can see HTTP Referrals here: https://stats.kiwix.org/index.php?module=CoreHome&action=index&idSite=5&period=day&date=yesterday#?idSite=5&period=month&date=2022-03-01&category=Referrers_Referrers&subcategory=Referrers_SubmenuWebsitesOnly https://stats.kiwix.org/index.php?module=CoreHome&action=ind...
pmfgpmfg 5y ago
marginalia_nu 5y ago
I'm doing my part o7 It's seriously a very interesting and useful dataset that you can do a lot of fun stuff with, if you grab one of the zims without pictures it's of very manageable size too of just a few dozen gigabytes compressed, and there are reasonably good library support in many languages. Last point doesn't go for Java. Only one I could find for that was this <https://github.com/openzim/libzim https://github.com/openzim/libzim>, it's antique and extremely poorly optimized and lacks support for newer compression schemes. I have fixed the performance and added support for zstd compression, but not published the code as it's extremely not finished and major features in the original codebase are very broken. I'll get around to sharing the code some day but right now it's basically permanently mid surgery as I've only patched so far as to get it to extract all or specific files. If anyone wants a copy of this code regardless of state, give me a holler.
glandium 5y ago
What was going on in Turkey last month? https://stats.kiwix.org/index.php?module=CoreHome&action=index&idSite=5&period=day&date=yesterday#?idSite=5&period=month&date=2022-02-17&category=General_Visitors&subcategory=UserCountry_SubmenuLocations https://stats.kiwix.org/index.php?module=CoreHome&action=ind...

45 points by WithinReason 5y ago

fragmede 5y ago

Interesting that Russia is at almost 2x the next country (USA).

nisegami 5y ago
Curiously, that's the relationship between the first and second highest frequencies for the Zipfian distribution. However, third place and beyond are much smaller than they should be under that distribution.
WithinReason 5y ago
There have been worries that Russia might soon ban Wikipedia, so people have been downloading it
nperez 5y ago
I'd do exactly this if I were worried about losing connectivity
davidgerard 5y ago
Russia has already written to the Wikimedia Foundation demanding that they take down Russian Wikipedia's well-sourced and factual article on the cough special operation. Wikimedia said "lol no," of course.
pauldd7 5y ago
They are getting a lot of traffic from the tjournal.ru domain looking at the stats. They seem to host a Russian article explaining how to download Wikipedia, expecting it soon to be blocked. You can see HTTP Referrals here: https://stats.kiwix.org/index.php?module=CoreHome&action=index&idSite=5&period=day&date=yesterday#?idSite=5&period=month&date=2022-03-01&category=Referrers_Referrers&subcategory=Referrers_SubmenuWebsitesOnly https://stats.kiwix.org/index.php?module=CoreHome&action=ind...

pmfgpmfg 5y ago

marginalia_nu 5y ago

I'm doing my part o7 It's seriously a very interesting and useful dataset that you can do a lot of fun stuff with, if you grab one of the zims without pictures it's of very manageable size too of just a few dozen gigabytes compressed, and there are reasonably good library support in many languages. Last point doesn't go for Java. Only one I could find for that was this <https://github.com/openzim/libzim https://github.com/openzim/libzim>, it's antique and extremely poorly optimized and lacks support for newer compression schemes. I have fixed the performance and added support for zstd compression, but not published the code as it's extremely not finished and major features in the original codebase are very broken. I'll get around to sharing the code some day but right now it's basically permanently mid surgery as I've only patched so far as to get it to extract all or specific files. If anyone wants a copy of this code regardless of state, give me a holler.

glandium 5y ago

What was going on in Turkey last month? https://stats.kiwix.org/index.php?module=CoreHome&action=index&idSite=5&period=day&date=yesterday#?idSite=5&period=month&date=2022-02-17&category=General_Visitors&subcategory=UserCountry_SubmenuLocations https://stats.kiwix.org/index.php?module=CoreHome&action=ind...