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[-] MJBrune@beehaw.org 9 points 7 months ago

Nah, it's 22 GB for just the current English version, text-only Wikipedia. Adding the media English current version only would be 140 GB (plus the 22 GB for the text). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MediaStatistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia

So you could do text-only Wikipedia and probably compress it. Maybe drop a few thousand of the articles that don't matter or are stubs. Drop all the entertainment articles, etc.

[-] rgb3x3@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago

Drop all the entertainment articles, etc.

Or send only the entertainment articles. Why wouldn't the aliens want to hear about the life and exploits of Leonardo DiCaprio?

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