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Updated English Wikipedia for Aard Dictionary is now available for download (torrent). All major and some smaller Wikipedias have also been added recently - download at http://aarddict.org.

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Originally Posted by itkach View Post
Updated English Wikipedia for Aard Dictionary is now available
Cool; thanks for the update.
I think you have the wrong url for the English version; it should be download (torrent).
 
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Originally Posted by belanger View Post
should be download (torrent).
Thank you, fixed.
 
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Was the smaller, "Simple English" wikipedia updated as well?
 
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Wow, 7GB. Is there a smaller version with core info?
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Simple English Wikipedia is updated relatively often, current version is compiled from May 6 dump, will be updated soon to June.
 
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Originally Posted by Thesandlord View Post
Wow, 7GB.
Yes, it's big. On a bright side - it contains a lot of information (~3.4 million articles)

Originally Posted by Thesandlord View Post
Is there a smaller version with core info?
No, there isn't, sorry. If there is a good (not involving manual process) way to make a meaningful article selection that can be considered core - I'd like to hear about it.
 
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Originally Posted by Thesandlord View Post
Wow, 7GB. Is there a smaller version with core info?
The Simple English Wikipedia is a good compromise. Its small, but has a good chunk of information in it.
 
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Simple English wiki is small and useful, but it's way too small compared to English. It would be nice to have something in the middle, but it looks like the only reliable way to do it is to have humans review and select the articles - I know http://pediapress.com and http://schools-wikipedia.org do that.
 
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Originally Posted by itkach View Post
Simple English wiki is small and useful, but it's way too small compared to English. It would be nice to have something in the middle, but it looks like the only reliable way to do it is to have humans review and select the articles - I know http://pediapress.com and http://schools-wikipedia.org do that.
if they publish a list of good/useful articles, then it would not be too hard for aardc to skip articles not on the list. though you would end up with a dead links in articles.

what might be nice would be to put the top articles in one fille, and then create extra files, that add in the less common articles.

maybe we can get the info from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ST
 
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