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Wikipedia were in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise
(www.wikimediastatus.net)
this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2026
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Yeah, the entire compressed thing is only ~40GB if you exclude media like photos, audio files, videos, etc, so it’s surprisingly easy to keep a local backup. You need some specialized software to be able to read the compressed data without fully unzipping it, but the software is FOSS so anyone can use it. Even if you include images, the file is only like 120GB, which is easy for anyone with a NAS. I’ve had the 40GB version on my NAS for a while, and happily leave it to seed.