All of Wikipedia can be installed to your desktop in just 30 hours

Started by bill, November 27, 2013, 03:56:19 AM

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bill


dogboy

I actually was trying to find a place that would print the 'highlight' reel, in gigantic books with tiny type and super thin pages, for my underground bunker complex in the Smokeys.


DrCool

8 or 9 years ago I made an attempt to download wikipedia and mash it up into a website of some sort. Never worked out. Nothing I had was powerful enough to open the database.

Zwart

Um why would we wanna do this? It's all available online isn't it?

rcjordan


rcjordan

While you're at it and if you have 102TB to spare:

The data was collected in 2013, contains approximately 2 billion web pages

http://commoncrawl.org/new-crawl-data-available/

Zwart

Quote from: rcjordan on November 27, 2013, 08:21:50 PM
>why

wikipedia+synonimizer+summarizer = original content

Fair, but still that can be done on-the-fly (or ...erm... so I've heard ;-)