Call me AGI because I am stealing this without attribution

I recommend just using https://kiwix.org/en/

It’s… suboptimal, but it’s about the least finicky way to get a compressed local copy of Wikipedia with all the article photos (~100GB).

It’s updated less frequently than the big dumps, but easier to use.

Every time I see that URL, I wince

I’ve been wanting to do this but the bridge being down and the cold have stopped me! Did you just do it as an out and back?

Manistee?