All of wikipedia fits on a thumb drive. You can mirror it and host it yourself. Not sure why there's so much buzz around it. And wow! They do know how to spend money there!
The thumb drive does not write and update those articles by itself.
And that's the best part.
All the text of Wikipedia fits on a thumb drive, yeah. But add in the images and suddenly it becomes hard to find a stick that could fit it.
Not really. I mean 1 TB microSD cards exist. Look at Kiwix. I've downloaded the English without the images, and the Dutch version with. Easily got them on my smartphone. Useful when I wouldn't have internet but would still like to look something up. Or if I want to have 'absolute' privacy about what I look up on Wikipedia (assuming my smartphone isn't pwned).
1TB doesn't come close to fitting Wikipedia + images, you'd need closer to 500TB to be able to fit it. Fitting just the text part is easy.
The currently latest (2023-10-25) Kiwix dump of the English Wikipedia with pictures is 96Gb.
Either way, for me chances are the Dutch version with pictures and the English without pictures are adequate.