I miss Microsoft Encarta (2019)

Re:I miss Microsoft Encarta (2019) by patrec on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @07:48AM (#24836258)

I am aware that there are various offline wikipedia compilations and I am grateful they exist and to the people who work on them, but last I looked using them looked like a bit of pain, and on checking again that still appears to be the case. I get the impression that if I want to have something of decent quality that fits into the 10s of GiB range I'd consider reasonable¹, I'd have to manually munge together several non-Pokemon topics I consider important plus one of the text only dumps. This would be more palatable if I had a strong impression that once I hit upon a working process I could rinse-and-repeat on a yearly basis.

Do you have any experience with this?

¹E.g. the 100k top article page linked by sibling does not look super promising, ~700 math articles vs ~10k fluff (sports, entertainment etc.).

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Re:I miss Microsoft Encarta (2019) by exDM69 on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @08:45AM (#24836635)

I have the ~80GB "full english" snapshot I grabbed some time ago and use with Kiwix. It's not quite "full", it doesn't have quite all images and video, etc. But the size is still reasonable for a desktop/laptop PC.

I also have a 10GB snapshot on my phone, but it's a bit lacking. I don't have enough storage on my phone to fit the bigger one. But a battery powered offline Wikipedia is high on my list of necessary things in case things go south.

I haven't found a great way to keep these synced up, glad to hear if someone has a good solution for up-to-date offline wikipedia.

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