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What is actually on the drive

Ninety-one artifacts.
Not a reading list.

This is the inventory, not the intention. Every item below is a file that exists, with the size it occupies, the licence it carries and the date its contents were frozen. Where a shelf is thin or empty, it says so — a catalogue that only lists what went well is not a catalogue.

91Artifacts on the drive
1.62 TBTotal, corpus only
705.9 GBLargest single file
EN + ESLanguages carried
0That need the internet
7Shelves, none empty
ShelfFilesSize
02 · Core96297.29 GB
08 · Maps3140.91 GB
06 · Literature2180.21 GB
07 · Supplemental23818.67 GB
05 · Language8312.68 GB
04 · Mathematics4511.73 GB
03 · Economics301.71 GB
Reading the dates

The date is when the contents were built or published, not when the file was fetched. An archive built in 2023 holds 2023 knowledge however recently it was downloaded.

Reading the languages

Language matters more than it appears. Spanish coverage is thinner than English in every corpus measured, and the section at the foot of this page sets out by how much.

Reading the licences

Almost everything here is freely redistributable — share-alike, public domain or open database. The exceptions are marked, and one of them cannot be passed on at all.

02 · Core

The retrieval backbone

Ninety-six files, 297.3 GB — over half the corpus by size. Two encyclopedias and eighteen question-and-answer archives, from electronics and Unix through robotics, astronomy and network engineering. This is what most answers are grounded against, and the reason a retrieval model exists at all.

Wikipedia English

EN124.0 GB2026-02CC BY-SA

The full English edition with images — the largest artifact in the build and the backbone every other answer grounds against.

Why this one

Taken as the maxi build rather than the 46 GB or 7.9 GB slices. The 69 GB saved would have cost the long tail — which is precisely where a niche repair procedure or an uncommon diagnosis lives. At 2% of the drive the trade was not close.

Wikipedia Spanish

ES40.8 GB2026-05CC BY-SA

The full Spanish edition with images. A third the size of the English by bytes, and a newer build.

Why this one

Taken with images rather than the smaller text-only build: at a single additional language the storage saved is not worth the lost diagrams. That calculation reverses at seven languages, where the English edition already holds the same illustrations.

Stack Overflow

EN114.9 GB2026-07CC BY-SA

The largest troubleshooting corpus ever assembled, and the second largest artifact here.

Why this one

Kept after an explicit argument. Against: it is overwhelmingly about web frameworks and cloud services that presuppose the internet, and the coding model already encodes much of it in 18 GB of weights. For, and it won: the one obscure answer about a serial protocol or a compiler flag cannot be predicted, and that unpredictability is the whole case for a full corpus over a curated slice.

Stack Exchange — Electronics

EN4.21 GB2026-08CC BY-SA

Circuit design, component identification, power supplies, microcontrollers, diagnosis. The densest of the batch.

Why this one

Ten times the size of the engineering site. Somebody repairing a charge controller, a pump timer or a radio is the intended use case more directly than most of the corpus. If only one Stack Exchange site survived, this is the one.

Stack Exchange — Physics

EN1.83 GB2026-08CC BY-SA

Conceptual and applied physics in question-and-answer form.

Why this one

Question-and-answer suits physics teaching better than encyclopedia prose, because the reader arrives holding a specific confusion rather than a topic.

Stack Exchange — Biology

EN423 MB2026-07CC BY-SA

Organism biology, genetics, ecology, physiology.

Why this one

Small for its domain, and complementary to Wikipedia rather than duplicative: the questions are the ones a reference work never thinks to answer.

Stack Exchange — Chemistry

EN417 MB2026-07CC BY-SA

Reactions, materials, laboratory practice and safety.

Why this one

The laboratory-safety material carries more weight offline than on: there is nobody to ask, and the failure modes in this domain are not forgiving.

Stack Exchange — Mechanics

EN340 MB2026-08CC BY-SA

Vehicle and engine repair, diagnosis and maintenance.

Why this one

Not named in the specification; added deliberately. In a scenario where this node matters, keeping a truck running is closer to the purpose than several things the specification does name.

Stack Exchange — Engineering

EN256 MB2026-08CC BY-SA

Mechanical, structural and civil engineering.

Why this one

Not named in the specification; added deliberately, to serve the applied side of the mathematics corpus. Surprisingly small for the domain it covers.

03 · Economics, trade and exchange

Ledgers, contracts and price formation

Thirty files, 1.7 GB. Double-entry bookkeeping, contract fundamentals, monetary history and the mechanics of trade. Modern finance writing assumes functioning institutions, electronic settlement and continuous price discovery, and none of those are available in the situation this node is built for — so the material here leans historical and procedural. Any group larger than one household needs a ledger, and the method is five hundred years old and needs no electricity.

Stack Exchange — Money

EN242 MB2026-08CC BY-SA

Personal finance, credit, debt instruments and valuation.

Why this one

Serves trade and market mechanics at the practical end — the questions somebody actually has, rather than the theory behind them.

Stack Exchange — Law

EN177 MB2026-08CC BY-SA

Contract and agreement fundamentals: structure, consideration, remedy, dispute resolution.

Why this one

Question-and-answer suits this better than a treatise, because people arrive with a situation rather than a doctrine. It is not the law of any particular country, and the node says so when asked.

Stack Exchange — Economics

EN109 MB2026-08CC BY-SA

Economic reasoning at the level somebody asks it, rather than the level it is taught.

Why this one

The first material ever placed in this directory, which until 2026-08-25 was completely empty.

04 · Mathematics

Because an encyclopedia cannot teach

Forty-six files, 11.7 GB. Wikipedia is a poor mathematics teacher: its articles are written for readers who already hold the concept. Everything on this shelf exists to correct that.

AIM approved textbooks

EN12 KB2026-08index

69 open mathematics textbooks across 23 subjects, vetted by an editorial board — titles, authors, sources.

Why this one

An index, not a shelf — these books are not on the drive. The catalogues that are here list thousands of titles and pass no judgement on any of them. This is the judgement: which open textbooks a review board considered good enough to teach from. Worth keeping because it decays faster than the books do — several entries already resolve only through the Internet Archive.

Stack Exchange — Mathematics

EN7.41 GB2026-08CC BY-SA

Larger than every other Stack Exchange site in this build combined. The closest thing to a tutor anywhere in the corpus.

Why this one

It answers the problem the mathematics section opens with: Wikipedia is a poor mathematics teacher, because its articles are written for readers who already hold the concept. Question-and-answer is the inverse — someone stuck, someone explaining, at every level from arithmetic to research.

Stack Exchange — Statistics

EN1.63 GB2026-08CC BY-SA

Experimental design, inference and regression — statistics for agriculture and quality control.

Why this one

Known as Cross Validated. The agricultural trial and the quality-control chart are the two places statistics earns its keep in this deployment, and both are well covered.

Art of Problem Solving

EN205 MB2021-03CC BY-SA

Competition mathematics with worked problems and graded exercises.

Why this one

A direct hit on the requirement for worked examples that Wikipedia does not provide. Five years stale, and it does not matter — mathematics does not rot.

ProofWiki

EN104 MB2026-04CC BY-SA

Formal proofs, rigorously stated.

Why this one

Complements the someone-stuck-someone-explaining register of the Q&A sites with the precise version of the same result.

Stack Exchange — Mathematics Educators

EN58 MB2026-08CC BY-SA

About how to explain mathematics, rather than how to do it.

Why this one

In no specification list; added deliberately. The build's second artifact concerned with transmitting knowledge rather than holding it — which is what a node meant to teach ultimately requires.

05 · Language and translation

Dictionaries, and sixty-six textbooks in Spanish

Ninety-nine files, 12.7 GB. Wiktionary in both languages, the LibreTexts Español catalogue — sixty-six textbooks written in Spanish rather than translated into it — and the first bilingual dictionaries. Grammars and language-learning material are still missing. The node works in both languages; it cannot yet teach either one to somebody who does not have it.

Why it is listed anyway

A Spanish speaker learning English and an English speaker learning Spanish need different books, and the half most often skipped is the one serving whoever is not the builder. The dictionaries that arrived prove the point rather than settling it: English to Spanish is 64,000 entries, Spanish to English is a stub forty times smaller and two years older. Naming the gap is the only way to keep it from quietly becoming permanent.

06 · Literature and cultural continuity

What makes it a civilization backup

Three thousand and forty-six files, 85.6 GB. Public domain books in both languages — and, less obviously, the largest body of procedural technical writing in the corpus. Spanish is still the thin side by a wide margin: 2.9 GB against 81.1 GB.

FreeDict English↔Spanish

ENES21 MB2024–2025GPL/CC

Bilingual dictionaries in both directions, in an open source format plus three reader formats.

Why this one

The first bilingual dictionary in the build, and open all the way down — the source is editable text, not a database only one program can read. The two directions are not equal. English to Spanish is 64,258 entries, current. Spanish to English is 116 kilobytes and two years older. Both are here; only one is finished.

BVMC catalogue

ES110 MB2023-04public domain

334,909 records of what was printed in the Hispanic world — title, place, printer, year — from 1479 to the present.

Why this one

A catalogue, not a library. The works are not here. What it carries is the imprint: "En Madrid : por Iuan de la Cuesta …, 1609" — the press that printed Don Quixote. A record of what was printed, where and when, which is not reconstructible offline. The Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes reserves rights over its digitised texts and we respected that; the same institution publishes its catalogue with no restrictions at all, so that is what was taken.

Standard Ebooks

EN4.25 GB2014–2026public domain

1,511 public domain titles, re-edited: real typography, semantic markup, proper covers. In two formats.

Why this one

The difference between a scanned transcription and a book someone would choose to read. Carried twice over — one format to read, one to search — because the searchable form is what the model actually retrieves from. This is the cleanest licence in the archive: public domain throughout, with no non-commercial clause, so it can travel with a node under no condition at all.

Wikisource Spanish

ES1.02 GB2026-07CC BY-SA

Transcribed and proofread public domain Spanish text — constitutions, treaties, historical documents, poetry and prose.

Why this one

With the Spanish Gutenberg holdings this is the Spanish literature shelf. It is not the Cervantes library, which remains the outstanding item — a distinction worth keeping, because Spanish literature at real depth is what makes Spanish a first language here rather than a translation target.

Project Gutenberg English

EN76.8 GB2023-08PD

Public domain books — and a large body of pre-1928 practical engineering, agriculture, chemistry and metallurgy.

Why this one

Its value exceeds the description. Those older technical books were written when the subjects were taught procedurally, assuming the reader intended to do the thing rather than understand it. Modern references assume you can buy the part; these assume you must make it. It also carries the literature that makes this a civilization backup rather than a survival tool.

Project Gutenberg Spanish

ES1.73 GB2026-01PD

2.3% of the English edition — the starkest asymmetry in the whole build.

Why this one

That is a property of the public domain corpus itself, not a packaging decision: far less pre-1928 Spanish-language material has been digitised. It is also the only place in the build where the Spanish edition is newer than the English — by two and a half years.

07 · Medical reference

Eight reference works, deliberately overlapping

Redundancy is the point. A tag-swept subset, a clinician-curated build, an emergency-medicine wiki and a pathology reference disagree with each other in useful ways, and a single source has nothing to be checked against.

Wikipedia Medical Subset (English)

EN2.22 GB2026-04CC BY-SA

English Wikipedia's health content, with images.

Why this one

Extracted by tag sweep rather than editorial selection, which is why the curated MDWiki build is taken alongside it rather than instead of it.

Wikipedia Medical Subset (Spanish)

ES657 MB2026-07CC BY-SA

30% of the English edition by bytes.

Why this one

A Spanish-language clinical query has materially less to retrieve from than an English one. That bears directly on the instruction to verify any clinical answer against the archive before acting on it.

MDWiki

EN2.30 GB2025-11CC BY-SA

WikiProject Medicine's curated build — more than 75,000 editorially selected articles.

Why this one

Overlapping content with the Wikipedia medical subset, different selection method. Both were taken deliberately: one is swept by tag, the other chosen by clinicians, and the disagreements between them are informative.

WikEM

EN375 MB2026-07CC BY-SA

Emergency medicine, written for the acute case rather than as an encyclopedia.

Why this one

Closer to the intended use case than a reference work is. Found by reading the directory listing rather than searching it — a keyword search for medicine would not have surfaced it. It grew from 46 MB to 357 MB in three months, so it is actively expanding.

LibrePathology

EN55 MB2026-06CC BY-SA

Diagnostic pathology.

Why this one

It shrank from 76 MB to 53 MB over nine months, which is unusual for a wiki. Flagged for re-checking at the next refresh, in case content was lost rather than deduplicated.

Skin of Color Society

EN1.14 GB2026-05©SOCS

Dermatology for darker skin tones.

Why this one

Standard medical references are overwhelmingly illustrated with light skin, and the presentation of rashes, infections and inflammatory conditions differs visibly. A reference showing only one is a diagnostic hazard, not merely incomplete.

WikiVet

EN57 MB2026-07CC BY-SA

Veterinary reference.

Why this one

Livestock health is a food-security question in the target scenario, not pet care.

zimgit — Medicine

EN70 MB2024-08mixed

Curated practical medicine, from the small offline-first zimgit series.

Why this one

The zimgit collections are deliberately assembled rather than mirrored, which makes them dense for their size and worth carrying alongside the large sweeps.

07 · Hesperian Health Guides

Twenty-seven manuals that cannot be shared.

Licensed per deployment, not redistributable, and the only artifacts in the build that cannot be re-fetched from a public address. Everything else here can be downloaded again by anyone holding the manifest and a connection. These require the purchaser's account.

Why they matter more than 380 MB suggests

Every other medical artifact here is a reference work. These are procedural manuals for the untrained — written for the situation where the clinic is a day away and nobody present is a clinician. Donde no hay doctor is the original, written in Spanish in 1970 before the English edition existed. It is not a translation.

TitleEnglish editionSpanish editionGap
Where There Is No Doctor202520178 yr
Where There Is No Dentist2025200521 yr
Where Women Have No Doctor20242024—
A Book for Midwives2026201610 yr
Helping Health Workers Learn2026201016 yr
Helping Children Who Are Deaf2026200818 yr
Helping Children Who Are Blind20022002—
A Community Guide to Environmental Health2012none—
Workers' Guide to Health and Safety2015none—
Promoting Community Mental Health2025none—
Water for Life2016yes—
Factsheets: cholera, covid, mpox, zikayesyes—
Two findings that belong in the printed procedure

Edition currency is not symmetric, and the gaps are clinical. A 2005 Spanish dental manual predates current antibiotic guidance. Where a Spanish answer and an English answer disagree on clinical content, the English source is probably newer.

Three titles are English only. Environmental health, occupational safety and community mental health — three domains where a Spanish-speaking operator has no Hesperian material at all, rather than merely older material. Partial mitigation exists for water and sanitation. Nothing mitigates the other two.

07 · Practical and technical

Repair, power, water, food, fieldcraft

Two hundred and forty-two files across the shelf, 367 GB. The closest of any to the daily use case: keeping a pump running, treating water, preserving a harvest, identifying a plant, teaching someone the mathematics behind it, and keeping the node itself alive.

Wikispecies

mul3.43 GB2026-07CC BY-SA

A taxonomic database of all known species — the only thing in the corpus aimed at the identification gap.

Why this one

The first artifact here that addresses a limitation the design openly admits: the model's vision will not reliably identify plants or animals, and staying geography-neutral cost the regional field guides that were the stated mitigation. This is not a field guide and no substitute for one — it is the largest identification resource obtainable.

TruePrepper

EN1.42 GB2026-05©TruePrepper

Preparedness reference, directly on topic.

Why this one

Carried with a caveat. 1.42 GB is large for a single blog and it is probably image-heavy; whether the content is reference-grade or content marketing is an open question, and it is flagged for assessment rather than assumed good.

Energypedia

EN800 MB2026-06CC BY-SA

Energy systems, off-grid power, solar, mini-grids and rural electrification.

Why this one

Nothing else in the build serves this. Power is the first-ranked design constraint, and until this arrived the corpus said nothing at all about the system the whole node depends on.

Appropedia

EN582 MB2026-02CC BY-SA

Appropriate technology: solar, water systems, small-scale construction, sanitation, sustainable agriculture.

Why this one

Appropriate technology across solar, water systems, small-scale construction and sanitation — arguably a better fit for the practical section than several sources the specification does name.

iFixit

ENES7.25 GB2025-12 · 2026-03CC BY-NC-SA

Repair manuals for electronics, appliances, vehicles and tools, with the step photographs and tool lists intact.

Why this one

Repairability is a design priority, and a node that cannot be fixed has a shelf life. The photographed teardown is a format nothing else in the corpus reproduces. Both languages, and the Spanish build is the newer of the two — the only place in the archive where that is true.

Khan Academy

ENES341 GB2023-03CC BY-NC-SA

Video instruction across mathematics, science, economics and test preparation, in English and Spanish.

Why this one

The largest single item on the drive, and the only one that teaches by watching someone work a problem rather than by reading. Textbooks assume a reader who can already study alone. This is for the one who cannot yet.

The Restart Project

EN17 MB2026-04CC BY-SA

Repair community — electronics, appliances, diagnosis, disassembly.

Why this one

A repair community rather than a manual: diagnoses, what actually fails, and fixes people have tried. Small at 17 MB, and it complements the iFixit manuals rather than standing in for them.

zimgit — Post-Disaster

EN645 MB2024-05mixed

Post-disaster response and hazard material.

Why this one

Not strictly medical, but continuous with the disaster-response use case, where the question is usually about water, shelter and sanitation before it is about injury.

zimgit — Water

EN21 MB2024-08mixed

Water treatment and sanitation.

Why this one

Trivially small for the consequence it carries, and one of only two things partially mitigating the absence of Spanish environmental-health material.

zimgit — Food Preparation

EN98 MB2025-04mixed

Food preparation and preservation.

Why this one

Preservation is the part that matters here — a harvest that cannot be stored is a harvest that is mostly wasted.

zimgit — Knots

EN28 MB2024-08mixed

Knots.

Why this one

Purely practical, trivially small, and exactly the kind of thing nobody thinks to include until they need it.

ScoutWiki (English)

EN26 MB2026-07CC BY-SA

Fieldcraft, first aid, camping and navigation, written for teaching non-specialists.

Why this one

The register matters as much as the content. Most technical references are written for people who already work in the field; this one assumes a beginner and a teacher, which is the mode this node most often has to operate in.

ScoutWiki (Spanish)

ES10 MB2026-07CC BY-SA

Spanish fieldcraft — rare in this build, and worth more than its size suggests.

Why this one

Spanish coverage has been thin in every corpus acquired. Ten megabytes of Spanish practical instruction is not much, and it is more than most of the practical shelf offers in Spanish at all.

Arch Wiki

EN36 MB2026-07CC BY-SA

The best general Linux documentation in existence, regardless of distribution.

Why this one

This one is about keeping the node itself alive. The system runs Linux, and there is no other systems documentation anywhere in the build — so when the machine rather than the question is the problem, this is the only thing to read.

The World Factbook

EN407 MB2026-02PD

Country data: terrain, climate, agriculture, infrastructure, demographics.

Why this one

This is what substitutes for regional curation when the deployment site is undecided. Per-country reference is the geography-neutral answer to a corpus that cannot know where it will end up.

USDA agricultural reference

EN20 MB2025-04PD

United States agricultural reference material.

Why this one

A placeholder more than an answer: it supports the agriculture shelf until the FAO and extension-service material arrives, which is where the geography-neutral agricultural corpus actually comes from.

08 · Maps

The whole planet, in one file

Seventy-eight files, 847.2 GB — the largest shelf in the archive. The planet basemap is 137.5 GB, zoom levels 0 to 15, a single file under an open database licence. Beside it sits 706 GB of global terrain, the climate classification maps, and the documentation for using all of it offline. The basemap knows where things are; the terrain knows how high they are.

Mapterhorn terrain

global705.9 GB2026-08CC BY

Global elevation, zoom 0 to 12, one file. The colour of each pixel is the height in metres.

Why this one

The largest artifact in the build, and the one that does not go stale — the ground does not move. Terrain answers where water flows and pools, which slope faces the sun, whether a route is walkable, where a small hydro drop exists, what floods. The finer regional archives were declined: the global source is 30-metre data, so past this zoom nothing new exists except in a handful of wealthy countries. Taking the planet file keeps the archive geography-neutral instead of quietly committing it to one continent.

Köppen-Geiger climate maps

global354 MB2023CC BY

Climate classification at 1 km, for four observed periods from 1901 to 2020.

Why this one

Answers what grows here, anywhere on earth — which is what the agriculture material needs and what a road map cannot give. The four historical periods are the part worth having: the same place classified in 1901 and in 2020 shows whether the growing conditions have moved, which no single snapshot can.

Köppen-Geiger — the confidence layer

global1.68 GB2023CC BY

The same classification in a second format, plus the one number the maps leave out: how much the models agreed.

Why this one

A duplicate that earns its place. The maps say Bogotá is Csb and Mérida is Aw with equal certainty. This layer says the models agreed 50% of the time about Bogotá and 100% about Mérida — and that Mérida's apparent century-long shift begins from a class half the ensemble rejected. Without it the node reports a change it cannot support. It is also the only claim in the archive stored twice in independent formats, so the two can be checked against each other instead of trusted.

OpenStreetMap Wiki

EN1.24 GB2026-07CC BY-SA

Tagging schemes, the data model, and the tooling documentation.

Why this one

The planet basemap is data; this is the documentation for reading and rebuilding it — which is what matters when the map server needs troubleshooting and there is no internet to search.

The asymmetry

Spanish is not half of this archive.
It is a fraction of it.

Seven independent measurements, nearly all pointing the same way. This is a property of the build rather than an observation about one corpus, and anyone operating the node in Spanish needs it stated plainly rather than discovered. The exception is worth as much as the rule: Khan Academy carries Spanish at 89% of English, which suggests the gap belongs to what reference publishers chose to translate rather than to Spanish-language material itself.

CorpusSpanish as a share of English
Wikipedia33%
Medical subset30%
Project Gutenberg2.3%
Hesperian titles3 English-only
Hesperian editionsup to 21 yr older
Stack ExchangeEnglish only
Bilingual dictionaries2.4%
What it means in practice
  • 01A Spanish query retrieves from materially less text than an English one.
  • 02Some Spanish clinical material is two decades out of date.
  • 03Three medical domains have no Spanish material at all.
  • 04The entire question-and-answer corpus — all troubleshooting, all repair, all mathematics — is English only.
The operating rule this produces

Where a Spanish answer and an English answer disagree, the English source is probably newer and better supported. Where a Spanish query returns nothing useful, re-ask in English before concluding the archive lacks the material.

This is not a caveat printed once and forgotten. It belongs in the recovery procedure that ships on paper, because the operator who most needs it is the one least likely to be reading this page.

Not yet on the drive

What is still missing

Acquired by direct download only — nothing here is scraped. Size was never what was left to solve. Grammars in both directions are the gap that changes what the node can do rather than how well it does it, and regional field guides are the price of staying geography-neutral — the corpus page says so where it costs something.

ItemEstimated sizeShelf
Grammars and language-learning material, both directionssmallLanguage
Regional field guidesvariesSupplemental
Köppen monthly climate series — when the rain comes, how long the dry stretch runs123 MB – 1.6 GBMaps

catalogue · 91 artifacts · 1.62 TB · last verified 2026-09-07