YSK That you can download complete wikipedia articles as PDF files : r/YouShouldKnow
Also, you can click "create a book" to select several articles and download all of them as one e-book in different e-book formats. Welp, time to go download the internet! So.... How big is wikipedia, if one wished to download it? About 8.7 GB. That wouldn't include images, would it? 8.7 GB seems pretty reasonable if it was just purely text. No, it wouldn't. It's actually just a xml dump of the database. Obviously if you wanted each article in PDF form it'll be quite a bit larger. Edit: I now realise that the 8.7 GB is compressed. As u/boredinballard suggested, the answer may be closer to 2.5 billion words after decompression, XML and wiki markup are considered. So there are approximately 1.7 billion words in Wikipedia. For reference, the final Harry Potter book has 204,796 words (source, may or may not be reliable). So the equivalent of 8330 large novels. I actually thought it would be more. For those interested in this sort of stuff, head over to r/estimation for more. This is one of