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)