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Also: wikipedia offers its entire content available as a tarball. Fork and run with it as you wish. While not "federated" it's pretty damn open.
by rocky1138 14y ago
Also: wikipedia offers its entire content available as a tarball. Fork and run with it as you wish. While not "federated" it's pretty damn open.
- J3L2404 14y agoHoly smokes, how big is it?
- _delirium 14y ago8 GB bzip2-compressed, for the English Wikipedia, if you download the dump that contains only the current revisions of article-space pages. Much bigger if you want the one with every historical revision.
- J3L2404 14y agoThanks. Important to mention that is text only.
- piranha 14y agoDepends on which language you'd like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
- jsvaughan 14y agosmall enough to have offline on your phone, as several apps do.
- sp332 14y agoThe text of a large percentage of the current version of English Wikipedia, without discussion pages, is that small.
- morsch 14y agoThe text, anyway, I don't think a dump including the images has been available for quite some time. And that's not just due to the size -- though that's also a concern, I imagine -- but mostly due to copyright concerns. Text submitted to Wikipedia is for the most part under a copyleft license, images often are not.