Hi everyone,
quick announcement for a major success on our side: we finally released late
last night an updated version of the English Wikipedia[1]. The last full
version (ie. with images) we had was from October 2018 (!), and since then we
had been plagued by regressions, bugs, resource limitations and probably some
very dark magic.
The new .zim file adds 900,000 articles (6.1 vs. 5.2 millions) and a healthy 11
Gb in size (89 vs. 78 Gb). The numbers are somewhat misleading because we need
to include internal links and redirects, which brings the total to 100+ million
interlinked items. Emmanuel will have more details on the hurdles that he had
to deal with.
Updates will now run on a monthly basis, which is another major improvement: we
had initially planned on bimonthly updates as a single run used to take up to
three weeks. It can now be done in 5-6 days \o/
Congrats to everyone involved or who supported us one way or another, including
the Foundation with the new & bigger servers they recently gave us access to.
Hopefully now we can move on to newer problems.
Stephane
[1] http://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia/wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2020-06.zim
<http://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia/wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2020-06.zim>
You can also torrent it by adding .torrent at the end (seeders welcome, as a
matter of fact)
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