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1. lxgr+(OP)[view] [source] 2023-11-20 03:30:37
Text really doesn't take up that much space, and in addition it compresses pretty well.

The entire English language Wikipedia is only around 60GB in a format that can be readily searched and randomly accessed (ZIM), for example: https://kiwix.org/

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2. lmm+W[view] [source] 2023-11-20 03:39:12
>>lxgr+(OP)
Does Kiwix actually work? I see people hyping it here but I could never get it to actually, y'know, download the file and display the wikipedia on my phone.
replies(3): >>lxgr+d1 >>pc2slo+c2 >>vatuei+p2
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3. lxgr+d1[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-11-20 03:42:07
>>lmm+W
It works perfectly for me, both on iOS and macOS.
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4. pc2slo+c2[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-11-20 03:55:32
>>lmm+W
Just downloaded. Doesn't seem to want to download Wikipedia on my phone, it says "detecting if filesystem supports 4gb files"
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5. vatuei+p2[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-11-20 03:58:28
>>lmm+W
Kiwix worked for me. IIRC there may be difficulties opening an archive that was downloaded outside of the mobile app, but archives downloaded in-app were fine.

For the mobile app I used one of the smaller Wikipedia subsets, since I didn't want to take up too much space on my phone. The full offline Wikipedia download is saved to my laptop.

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