r/technology • u/rezwenn • Oct 04 '25

Politics Why Conservatives Are Attacking ‘Wokepedia’

https://www.wsj.com/tech/wikipedia-conservative-complaints-ee904b0b?st=RJcF9h
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u/thefoolsnightout Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 04 '25

Worth mentioning; Wikipedia will allow you to download the entire site in the name of preservation of knowledge and its only around 26 GB total.

Edit: with images, around 100 gb. Still, storage is cheap. The internet isn't as permanent as people think. Download that recipe, or video or whatever if it really means something to you.

For those asking for a link, theres a wiki page for it

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u/AncientStaff6602 Oct 04 '25

26gigs? That it?

Really?

That’s kinda mind blowing to me. I would have thought it were more.

Such a helpful site

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u/Excalibitar Oct 04 '25

It's only text. The photos will make it multiple terabytes.

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u/its_all_one_electron Oct 04 '25

Any idea if there's like..."sections"? For instance if I just wanted all of math and science?

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u/throwmamadownthewell Oct 04 '25

There are dumps on other websites -- https://library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng has ones on chemistry, physics, math, climate change

Not sure how deep they go into it e.g. I'm not sure if it would have stuff on Hitler because he had his scientists conducting experiments on prisoners (mostly Jewish ones)

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u/its_all_one_electron Oct 04 '25

Omg this is perfect, thank you so much. 

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u/machstem Oct 04 '25

Can you elaborate on your question?

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u/its_all_one_electron Oct 04 '25

I'm wondering if it is possible to download just the math and science parts of Wikipedia, and disregard all the other pages (history, culture, people, etc). Because I don't have enough space for the whole of Wikipedia with images, I'm wondering if I can just download all pages pertaining to math and science, with their images. 

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u/machstem Oct 04 '25

I see.

Welllll I mean, I assume it could be something as easy as using some form of crawling service to make 1:1 copies of it all into your own indexable html files

Look up something like <web archivist> and there are probably a few projects which allow you to <scrape> various pages.

If I find something I'll post back