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You would be correct.

It's ~650GiB of data. The entire English version of Wikipedia is about 20GiB and the Encyclopædia Britannica is only about 300MiB (measured in ASCII characters) [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_comparisons



The English Wikipedia text (no images) is about ~20 GB compressed, but ~60 GB uncompressed.


I only use the sources available to me at the time.

Another value published by Wikipedia is 30GiB [1] as of 2020, which includes punctuation and markup.

I explicitly put the measurement unit as ASCII characters. If you have a better source for your size (remember: ASCII characters for article words only, no markup), feel free to post it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_in_volumes




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