While wikipedia is written by volunteers, hosting isn't free, and neither is all the other work we do to make sure wikipedia continues growing for many years to come. As a reminder, kiwix is an offline reader: Downloading wikipedia is great and all, but it has little useful information in case of emergency.
It was able to browse and pull directly from the zip. All revisions on wikipedia have a permanent link. The longest wikipedia article is list of glagolitic manuscripts, which is 1,325,631 bytes long.
A subreddit to help you keep up to date with what's going on with reddit and other stuff. Don't donate to wikipedia, the people that do the actual work don't get paid at all, donate to them instead, wikipedia gets plenty of donations from corporations and such. The edits are publicly viewable for everyone on the internet to see. Actually use the function of this site to post links to enable.
People who still think wikipedia is some completely unreliable source of information. Actually a lot of coverage of everyday subjects is kind of bad because there are. There used to be an under 4gb zip file of all of wikipedia text that was used on an offline wikipedia device called wikireader. I maintain a personal list of what i consider to be some of the most interesting wikipedia articles and, having recently reached 500 entries, i figured i'd share it.