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Re:What Wikipedia Did by spondylosaurus on Sunday May 14, 2023 @04:21AM (#35936325)
And Wikipedia keeps a complete version history of every edit made to every page, doesn't it? I just think about how large a single git repo can get and imagine that at scale.

Also, slightly tangential, but the little blurb at the top of that essay is my favorite kind of Wikipedia-y snark:

> "WP:CANCER" redirects here. For editors who improve Wikipedia's articles about actual physical cancer, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Hematology-oncology task force.

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Re:What Wikipedia Did by bawolff on Sunday May 14, 2023 @07:09AM (#35937107)
Yes. It does get good compression ratio though as different versions are similar (although i dont know if wikipedia still does recompression). Storage by itself is not a particularly expensive part of the app.

You can actually download the whole thing if you want.

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Re:What Wikipedia Did by qingcharles on Sunday May 14, 2023 @10:45AM (#35938392)
The images are a much bigger issue than the text, I would fancy.
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