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. It was able to browse and pull directly from the zip. The average length of a wikipedia article is about 658 words.
The longest wikipedia article is list of glagolitic manuscripts, which is 1,325,631 bytes long. The edits are publicly viewable for everyone on the internet to see. There used to be an under 4gb zip file of all of wikipedia text that was used on an offline wikipedia device called wikireader.
Actually use the function of this site to post links to enable. 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. 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. Downloading wikipedia is great and all, but it has little useful information in case of emergency.
As a reminder, kiwix is an offline reader: Actually a lot of coverage of everyday subjects is kind of bad because there are. People who still think wikipedia is some completely unreliable source of information. All revisions on wikipedia have a permanent link.