Can you download the entire contents of wikipedia? Does anyone know?
I mean sure, you could web spider the lot of it, but i mean do they allow a single .zip download or whatever to keep a copy of it locally?
Wikipedia spouts on about being a free encyclopaedia but that means little when your offline.
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arc
Brisbane, Queensland
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greazy
Brisbane, Queensland
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hardware
Brisbane, Queensland
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Nitro
Gold Coast, Queensland
2108 posts
Wikipedia spouts on about being a free encyclopaedia but that means little when your offline.
Off-what?
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teq
Brisbane, Queensland
11977 posts
ravn0s
Brisbane, Queensland
13793 posts
would be interesting to know how much data is on wikipedia.
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Dazhel
Gold Coast, Queensland
4157 posts
E.T.
Queensland
4014 posts
trog
AGN Admin
Brisbane, Queensland
35086 posts
Nitro
Gold Coast, Queensland
2109 posts
Spook
Brisbane, Queensland
33498 posts
a way better option is downloading your facebook.
i did that the other day and it was great!
everything on your wall since day one, all your photos and stuff, all neatly pacakged up.
been meaning to write some perl scripts to crawl over it and pick out all the cool stuff ive done with my fb over the years (ie all the yuotubes)
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arc
Brisbane, Queensland
1139 posts
apparently if you click the first link in the main text of all wiki articles, and keep clicking the first link through all the redirected articles you always end up at philosophy.
theres a bit of trivia for ya!
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Thanks teq! just what I was asfter!
To the first four fuckwit posters, get a clue or die in a raging fire ! pref second option.
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fade
Brisbane, Queensland
7109 posts
apparently if you click the first link in the main text of all wiki articles, and keep clicking the first link through all the redirected articles you always end up at philosophy.
theres a bit of trivia for ya!
I just did this on the article of the day... it worked.
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arc
Brisbane, Queensland
1141 posts
lol gamer.. enjoy your offline outdated wikipedia.
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TicMan
Melbourne, Victoria
7483 posts
31Gb uncompressed? That can't be right, Wikipedia has everything every written about everything in history.. surely it'd be more than 31Gb.
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thermite
Brisbane, Queensland
8482 posts
A gigabyte is a fuckload though. Try writing a gigabyte of meaningful HTML right now.
Also wikipedia doesn't have everything. They quite deliberately don't want everything.
last edited by thermite at 15:45:36 18/Nov/11
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Nathan
Brisbane, Queensland
3847 posts
A typed page has maybe 2kb of text data on it, so thats a 15 million page book.
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JakeG
Thailand
1031 posts
How do you download your facebook Spook??
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TiT
Brisbane, Queensland
4575 posts
to download your facebook
go account settings
Then the last thing on the page says
Download a copy of your Facebook data.
mine is about 180mb
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carson
Gippsland, Victoria
1355 posts
Wikipedia is useless without it's sources. The good information is in it's sources, the articles themselves are subject to bias, etc.
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BladeRunner
Queensland
296 posts
Timmeh
Brisbane, Queensland
1370 posts
just download the internet while your at it.
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copuis
Brisbane, Queensland
1585 posts
31Gb uncompressed? That can't be right, Wikipedia has everything every written about everything in history.. surely it'd be more than 31Gb.
written is the key, text is cheap (space wise)
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Tollaz0r!
Brisbane, Queensland
11919 posts
apparently if you click the first link in the main text of all wiki articles, and keep clicking the first link through all the redirected articles you always end up at philosophy.
I tried that for a while when xkcd posted it, it truely does work.
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WetWired
Brisbane, Queensland
5832 posts
CHUB
Brisbane, Queensland
8341 posts
apparently if you click the first link in the main text of all wiki articles, and keep clicking the first link through all the redirected articles you always end up at philosophy. I was skeptical but cottage cheese -> philosophy, neat.
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d^
Melbourne, Victoria
751 posts
While on the topic of downloading websites, how do you download a whole site to store in cache locally?
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thermite
Brisbane, Queensland
8485 posts
If you quickly glance at jimmy wales he looks like he's naked with a necklace on
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Hogfather
Cairns, Queensland
11303 posts
If you quickly glance at jimmy wales he looks like he's naked with a necklace on
Thanks for that.
Weirdo!
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While on the topic of downloading websites, how do you download a whole site to store in cache locally?
teleport pro
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d^
Melbourne, Victoria
752 posts
trog
AGN Admin
Brisbane, Queensland
35098 posts
So on this topic in case anyone stumbles across it, I was actually looking at this a couple days ago because I was trying to find a set of data that I could use as dummy data to import into WordPress. If anyone sees something like this that would be awesome. Or if you're hacking away on WP data and could turn some of it into an RSS feed to be imported that would similarly be rad.
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Triamks
Brisbane, Queensland
3425 posts
apparently if you click the first link in the main text of all wiki articles, and keep clicking the first link through all the redirected articles you always end up at philosophy.
theres a bit of trivia for ya!
I must be doing it wrong. I navigated through a random article and then got stuck in a loop between language, communication, and mathematics.
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the philosophy thing worked for me on todays featured article.
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Midda
Brisbane, Queensland
7638 posts
no you hang up
Brisbane, Queensland
1830 posts
apparently if you click the first link in the main text of all wiki articles, and keep clicking the first link through all the redirected articles you always end up at philosophy.
theres a bit of trivia for ya!
just did it on harry nilssons wiki page. took a while but it got there. nicely played.
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HerbalLizard
Brisbane, Queensland
5239 posts
While its not possible it would be interesting to have say a bit-torrent style approach to serving up Wikipedia
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justrev
Melbourne, Victoria
385 posts
If you click on the first link in Philosophy you get existence. This seems even more profound.
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thermite
Brisbane, Queensland
8491 posts
I got in a loop as well, indo-european languages > language family > language > communication > information > order theory > mathematics > greek language > indo-european languages
seems like those are all pages you'd be likely to hit playing this game, and you'd get in the same loop
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trog
AGN Admin
Brisbane, Queensland
35103 posts
While its not possible it would be interesting to have say a bit-torrent style approach to serving up Wikipedia Why wouldn't it be possible?
There are several p2p content publishing platforms, although the focus is primarily on anonymity and privacy. Freenet is one example.
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