Current revision only of just the text of the articles is 8.8GB compressed, 27GB uncompressed. All revisions, all pages (talk etc. included) of text is around 5 terabytes. [...] Neither of those include media. [0]
The biggest version of this device has 32GB of storage. The math is not hard to follow. This is the kind of transparently infeasible pipe dream I expect from Kickstarter projects.
[0] https://www.quora.com/How-many-gigabytes-or-terabytes-of-inf...
Wikipedia has a very long tail, no need to load articles such as Jabal al Utayfah or Poul Reumert or Screaming Life/Fopp.
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/
Might be another way to answer that question, but I didn't find it here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Statistics#Page_view...
Which seems to mean that storing only the version in the user's language should not pose a huge challenge, storage-wise. No?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia
> There are 5,049,507 articles on the site (live count).[4] In October 2015, the combined text of the English Wikipedia's articles totalled 11.5 gigabytes when compressed.[5]