@chpietsch @gleick @kiwix

Not suggesting scraping so thanks for these suggestions. Good advice for everyone!!👍
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@Darkphoenix @gleick

NOT a silly question. (there are NO silly tech questions)

Here's the solution:

https://fedifreu.de/@chpietsch/113710470289148980

ETA: and if you don't understand how to ...send out an S.O>S to all the techies on fedi using the Tech and Fediverse and computer hashtags--someone is sure to reply

@Darkphoenix
And you can purchase external hard drives (get an SSD- they are sturdy) for less than $100 dollars. Prices are scaled to how much data you want to store) they come with the cord and just plug it in --works like your computer internal hard drive.

@gleick

@Darkphoenix @SnowshadowII @gleick The Wikipedia dumps everyone's talking about here are text-only, no images.

As a result, the files are smaller than one might expect; under 30GB. Smaller than a Windows OS install, smaller than most triple-A games. Would fit on a modern smartphone easily. My local computer store often hands out USB drives bigger than that for free.

So the data is safe enough, many copies can be made. It's the social network Wikipedia creates and is created by that's vulnerable.