Emmanuel Engelhart, 01/03/2014 18:01:
For the first time, we have achieved to release a complete dump of all encyclopedic articles of the Wikipedia in English, *with thumbnails*.
This ZIM file is 40 GB big and contains the current 4.5 million articles with their 3.5 millions pictures: http://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia_en_all.zim.torrent
Fantastic; I was impatiently waiting for this moment. I suppose you need reseeders?
In the last months we've seen way more ZIM files than in the past. One day all this will work so seamlessly that it will just be a periodic job on some WMF server for all Wikimedia projects without Kelson's manual awesomeness. 6 years without HTML dumps are a long time.
Thanks to GWicke for helping Kelson exploit Parsoid for additional good byproducts.
Nemo