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"nearly all of the textual content of the English Wikipedia" = "1GB" I find that hard to believe. Other wiki readers' dumps are a multiple of that. Eg aarddict

by aw3c2 15y ago

"nearly all of the textual content of the English Wikipedia" = "1GB" I find that hard to believe. Other wiki readers' dumps are a multiple of that. Eg aarddict for en is ~8GB.

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antimatter15 15y ago
It's most of the large articles, the entirety (stripped of citations and image metadata) and compressed is more like 4GB. For comparison, everything (including citations) as a wikimedia XML dump is about 7GB bzipped and thirty something uncompressed
riffraff 15y ago
from the blog: >>> First of all, it compresses not the entireity, but rather the most popular subset of the English Wikipedia. Two dumps are distributed at time of writing, the top 1000 articles and the top 300,000 requiring approximately 10MB and 1GB, respectively.
- kristianp 15y ago
  Actually the top 1337 and 314159 articles, respectively :).
- aw3c2 15y ago
  Cheers! Then their pitch of "nearly all content" is grossly wrong. Meh.
teilo 15y ago
You can find the current size here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download Current uncompressed size of all English articles in XML: 31Gb. Compressed: 7.3. That's without talk, User pages, revision history, etc.