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		woodrowbarlow on Jan 20, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Totenpass is a permanent digital storage drive mad... > a rugged USB memory stick that contains all of Wikipedia on it fyi, in case anyone doesn't already know, wikipedia allows anyone to directly download their database. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

YXNjaGVyZWdlbgo on Jan 20, 2022 [–]

Until 2012 you could also download the whole set of used images in wikipedia which is only 145GB but now there seems to be no download option anymore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MediaStatistics

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