I maintain a personal list of what i consider to be some of the most interesting wikipedia articles and, having recently reached 500 entries, i figured i'd share it. Since wikipedia is open source, there are many ways to download the entire database listed here with instructions, including an sql database, html dumps, and anywhere else you can. As a reminder, kiwix is an offline reader:
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The foundation is flush with cash yet paints the picture that wikipedia might go off. This article on it is from 2015 but its essentially the same situation. It was able to browse and pull directly from the zip file with out.
The longest wikipedia article is list of glagolitic manuscripts, which is 1,325,631 bytes long.
A subreddit to help you keep up to date with what's going on with reddit and other stuff. A place to share interesting wikipedia articles, and talk about wikipedia and its sister projects There used to be an under 4gb zip file of all of wikipedia text that was used on an offline wikipedia device called wikireader. All revisions on wikipedia have a permanent link.
You can find it here. Actually use the function of this site to post links to enable more. People who still think wikipedia is some completely unreliable source of information. The are asking and it borders on scam.
Once you download your zim file (wikipedia, stackoverflow or whatever) you can browse it without any further need for internet connectivity.
The average length of a wikipedia article is about 658 words. The edits are publicly viewable for everyone on the internet to see.
