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You can also get it in a user-friendly format with the application Kiwix (https://www.kiwix.org/) if that's your use case. PC, phone, or server. You get subsets of the data, and images are smaller to save space.


Kiwix use is still somewhat hit or miss when browsing. Im not sure how it handles text parsing but it either takes forever or doesn't return results making it sort of unusable.

But it's still a fantastic and incredible piece of software. When it gets to the point where I can portably keep the full 60gb zim file seemlessly, it will change simple computer for low broadband areas. Imagine the uses as a portable and versatile database that could accept json, html/css, data to make your own offline encyclopedias!


It's useful to browse on a phone if you have limited mobile data, and the text-only English Wikipedia fits onto a modern micro SD card.


The complete archive with image is 82GB, well inside the capacity of an affordable modern microSD card.


kiwix includes a relation to Qt5Core.dll with an invalid signature, not sure if relevant to anybody





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