Since wikipedia is open source, there are many ways to download the entire database listed here with instructions, including an sql database, html dumps, and anywhere else you can download it, with slimmed down versions specifically to fit on a flash drive or a set of dvds, or downloads without images/less popular pages in order to make the download smaller The easiest way by far is to use. There used to be an under 4gb zip file of all of wikipedia text that was used on an offline wikipedia device called wikireader It was able to browse and pull directly from the zip file with out uncompressing it all. I maintain a personal list of what i consider to be some of the most interesting wikipedia articles and, having recently reached 500 entries, i figured i'd share it You can find it here
Fair warning, many of the articles are macabre with a lot of murders, disasters and disappearances scattered throughout the list. The longest wikipedia article is list of glagolitic manuscripts, which is 1,325,631 bytes long The average length of a wikipedia article is about 658 words The english wikipedia has 6,714,921 articles, which contain over 4.3 billion words Wikipedia is edited over 2 times every second, 547 new articles are added each day. Vandalism of the wikipedia page of america's got talent star grace vanderwaal 9 3 u/zeldafrombotwsfrog
Once you download your zim file (wikipedia, stackoverflow or whatever) you can browse it without any further need for internet connectivity For context, i am a beginner at editing wikipedia and having doing so for a year up until now I have been blocked for a year for reasons that were given by an administrator after i attempted an appeal: Don't donate to wikipedia, the people that do the actual work don't get paid at all, donate to them instead, wikipedia gets plenty of donations from corporations and such Wikipedia's own creator says you shouldn't trust wikipedia in an article, with their history erasing / manipulation and political bias no one should. With the following link, you can download 100% of wikipedia
The reason this is worth doing, is because if you ever lose signal, there's no wifi, or your data is off for whatever reason, at least you will still be able to access any information you might need in an emergency.
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