Daft_ish@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 10 months agoThey use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust.message-squaremessage-square332fedilinkarrow-up11.19Karrow-down1122
arrow-up11.07Karrow-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 · 10 months agomessage-square332fedilink
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down1·10 months 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@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 months agoEven less so if you exclude images
minus-squareCorkyskog@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoThose images are important, I would keep them. Wikipedia just scrapes the surface of information, a picture can give a bigger insight.
minus-squareFlax@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoTrue, if you have the space by all means
minus-squareFrost-752@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoIs there an easy way of doing a full backup?
minus-squarealphafalcon@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 months agoFunnily enough, wikipedia has the answer https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
minus-squareguiguinofake@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·10 months agoThat’s only the text without any media. If you wanted to save all media on Wikimedia Commons, that would be about 420tb.
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoYou get the images, just not audio or video files.
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
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 interesting
That’s only the text without any media. If you wanted to save all media on Wikimedia Commons, that would be about 420tb.
You get the images, just not audio or video files.