{"id":3481,"date":"2013-09-22T10:06:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T14:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/?p=3481"},"modified":"2013-09-22T10:06:30","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T14:06:30","slug":"a-torrent-of-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/?p=3481","title":{"rendered":"A Torrent of Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As it turns out, Wikipedia is not only free to use, but makes its <em>entire database<\/em> available for download, as well. I just downloaded the entire set of Wikipedia articles (not including revision history) in just over 25 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Data_dump_torrents\" target=\"_blank\">Here is a page<\/a> with links to several BitTorrent trackers. Downloads seem to be possible at well over the 50Mb\/sec that my cable connection can handle. Compressed, the files are still several GB, so you may not want to try this on a metered data connection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As it turns out, Wikipedia is not only free to use, but makes its entire database available for download, as well. I just downloaded the entire set of Wikipedia articles (not including revision history) in just over 25 minutes. Here &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/?p=3481\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[217,223,394],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digitalcitizenship","category-internet","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3482,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481\/revisions\/3482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}