Daft_ish@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year agoThey use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust.message-squaremessage-square316fedilinkarrow-up11.14Karrow-down1118
arrow-up11.02Karrow-down1message-squareThey use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust.Daft_ish@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square316fedilink
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down1·1 year agoIt’s less than 90 gig to do a full backup. I can have the sum total of human knowledge on a 1TB external SDD, and still have room for Skyrim and my modlist.
minus-squareFlax_vert@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoEven less so if you exclude images
minus-squareCorkyskog@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThose images are important, I would keep them. Wikipedia just scrapes the surface of information, a picture can give a bigger insight.
minus-squareFlax_vert@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoTrue, if you have the space by all means
minus-squareFrost752@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoIs there an easy way of doing a full backup?
minus-squarealphafalcon@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoFunnily enough, wikipedia has the answer https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
minus-squareguiguinofake@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoThat’s only the text without any media. If you wanted to save all media on Wikimedia Commons, that would be about 420tb.
It’s less than 90 gig to do a full backup. I can have the sum total of human knowledge on a 1TB external SDD, and still have room for Skyrim and my modlist.
Even less so if you exclude images
Those images are important, I would keep them. Wikipedia just scrapes the surface of information, a picture can give a bigger insight.
True, if you have the space by all means
That’s interesting
Is there an easy way of doing a full backup?
Funnily enough, wikipedia has the answer
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
ah I see, ty lol
That’s only the text without any media. If you wanted to save all media on Wikimedia Commons, that would be about 420tb.