As solutions go, it is certainly radical: in order to thwart a mass epidemic of cheating by students taking their school leaving exams, Algeria shut down the internet for up to three hours a day this week – for everyone.
[... The public telephone operator Algérie Telecom] published a timetable of the shutdown schedule: three one-hour blackouts, coinciding with the first hour of each baccalaureate exam, on Wednesday, and two each on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
[...] Cheating among the more than 700,000 students who take Algeria's bac was so widespread in 2016 that the education ministry declared several exams void and using new question papers.
[...] Algeria is not, however, the only country to take such radical steps during exam season: Syria, Iraq, Mauritania, Uzbekistan and several Indian states reportedly block access to the internet. Ethiopia shuts down social media.
Algeria blocks internet to prevent students cheating during exams
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @03:54AM (2 children)
So have a local cache to avoid hitting Télécom Algérie's network.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @01:13PM (1 child)
A local cache of Wikipedia? Looks like something over 12 GB, compressed -- but it might be pretty slow to search the compressed version? In that case you need uncompressed at something north of 10 TB.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]
But that is just a fraction of the web... A local cache of Internet Archive Wayback Machine -- http://archive.org/web/petabox.php [archive.org] ...
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday June 24 2018, @01:21PM
Uncompressed is only 10 TB if you include all edit histories. You do blow past 10 TB if you want the non-text content:
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]