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The text version of Wikipedia*
The images and other media are a hell of a lot more.
it's 102GB with images, 53GB without
I presume this is images directly hosted on English Wikipedia and not the entirety of Commons where the vast majority of images are kept, right?
Wikimedia Commons is 373TB images. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MediaStatistics
So I have to upgrade my NAS again, ay?
You're not already running petabyte NAS??????
Kinda interesting at a broad level ... that there's still something to the efficiency of language.
Sure storage is cheap now, but so much of the calculation of the utility of data in modern tech is the presumption of an internet connection and retrieval of information over the network.
With the internet going to shit in various ways, local or decentralised computing is making more sense, at least depending on your priorities and perspective. And so all of a sudden, storage tradeoffs become a bit more meaningful. Do I need all of the pictures and media ... or would a simple textual description suffice for most instances with high res media available at a more centralised archive if I'm really interested? A picture is worth 1000 words, but takes a hell of a lot more digital storage space!
So many home instructions are so much easier with a photograph or two, or better yet a video.
The 100Gb version mentioned above does only have thumbnails/lowres pictures, yeah. Better than nothing for some types of articles, but not everything. The true text-only version is actually only ~53Gb though.
Some of the high res photos are ridiculous.
Like a 8000x9000 uncompressed image of someone's hand and weighs about 22mb.
I know that because I use a lot of royalty free images.
Is there an index of the images or something like that?
https://commons.wikimedia.org/
The images are categorised and there's a search function.
Thank you very much!
Without images Wikipedia is a "mere" 22.14gb.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia#:~:text=The%20total%20number%20of%20pages,about%2022.14%20GB%20without%20media.
I've installed game patches that were larger than this.
They should put it in a popular game patch.