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This has been a goal for two years, and we have finally achieved it today.

Even better, you can add up to 500 pages (including library works or essays) to a collection, and download it all as one PDF 'book'.

To get started, go on the homepage (https://en.prolewiki.org/) and open the megamenu, then click on "Create book" and follow the instructions.

We're still ironing out some hiccups, but I can't tell you how happy I am that this works! Guess who's celebrating tonight ๐Ÿ˜Ž

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

is there a way to download the entirety of prolewiki as a folder of files, with a strong preference for non-PDF files?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Not yet unfortunately

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Just out of curiosity... (At the moment)

How much storage would downloading all of it take?

Might be useful to have a few torrents of the whole collection available incase the feds ever come knocking.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Not that much, between 20-40 gigs. However that would be for the source files; as a PDF, the website might take twice or three times that amount because it's an inefficient format. We'd have to run a script probably to make the PDFs automatically and there would be like 10 volumes to it (500 articles per 'book' for ~4000 articles)

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Fantastic! Nice feature, I might actually get through the History of China now!

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Nice, I got shit rural internet sometimes I'm forced offline for 18hrs at a time. Something on Kiwix like wikipedia or stackoverflow has would also be something to look at maybe.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Nice, gonna save a few on my tablet. It would also be great if we could download epub versions of the books.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Epub is possible but (keep it a secret) I'm too lazy to enable it

edit: okay it's enabled.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Oh thanks, that was fast. I can't imagine how productive you are when you aren't lazy. ๐Ÿ˜

I haven't checked how it renders on my e-ink reader yet, but the download is working great.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

yes this satisfies my hoarding instinct

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

what are you going to collect?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

all of it, might be interesting to make an offline project about it like the offline archwiki on the terminal.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Cause if you wanted to make some collections centered on topics and host them somewhere so other people could download them... ๐Ÿ‘€

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

but how can the CIA take down all of ProleWiki if there are PDF's floating around on people's hard drives

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

cia creepypasta: the pdf came from inside the house ๐Ÿ˜จ

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I understand

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

and that's only the beginning, we have so many plans