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Re:How to Download All of Wikipedia onto a USB Flash Drive by 988747 on Thursday October 06, 2022 @07:02PM (#33115274)
BTW: what's the difference between 95.2 GB file and 45 GB one? There is no info on download page.
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Re:How to Download All of Wikipedia onto a USB Flash Drive by lavezza on Thursday October 06, 2022 @07:21PM (#33115462)
95.2 is the "maxi" file. 49.48 is the "nopic" file. 13.39 is the "mini".

From https://www.kiwix.org/en/documentation/

File size is always an issue when downloading such big content, so we always produce each Wikipedia file in three flavours:

Mini: only the introduction of each article, plus the infobox. Saves about 95% of space vs. the full version. nopic: full articles, but no images. About 75% smaller than the full version Maxi: the default full version.

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