[HN Gopher] Most downloads of the entire Wikipedia per country
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       Most downloads of the entire Wikipedia per country
        
       Author : WithinReason
       Score  : 32 points
       Date   : 2022-03-22 13:29 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (stats.kiwix.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (stats.kiwix.org)
        
       | pmfgpmfg wrote:
        
       | marginalia_nu wrote:
       | I'm doing my part o7
       | 
       | It's seriously a very interesting and useful dataset that you can
       | do a lot of fun stuff with, if you grab one of the zims without
       | pictures it's of very manageable size too of just a few dozen
       | gigabytes compressed, and there are reasonably good library
       | support in many languages.
       | 
       | Last point doesn't go for Java. Only one I could find for that
       | was this <https://github.com/openzim/libzim>, it's antique and
       | extremely poorly optimized and lacks support for newer
       | compression schemes. I have fixed the performance and added
       | support for zstd compression, but not published the code as it's
       | extremely not finished and major features in the original
       | codebase are very broken. I'll get around to sharing the code
       | some day but right now it's basically permanently mid surgery as
       | I've only patched so far as to get it to extract all or specific
       | files. If anyone wants a copy of this code regardless of state,
       | give me a holler.
        
       | fragmede wrote:
       | Interesting that Russia is at almost 2x the next country (USA).
        
         | nisegami wrote:
         | Curiously, that's the relationship between the first and second
         | highest frequencies for the Zipfian distribution. However,
         | third place and beyond are much smaller than they should be
         | under that distribution.
        
         | davidgerard wrote:
         | Russia has already written to the Wikimedia Foundation
         | demanding that they take down Russian Wikipedia's well-sourced
         | and factual article on the _cough_ special operation. Wikimedia
         | said  "lol no," of course.
        
         | WithinReason wrote:
         | There have been worries that Russia might soon ban Wikipedia,
         | so people have been downloading it
        
         | nperez wrote:
         | I'd do exactly this if I were worried about losing connectivity
        
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