Compress the first gigabyte of English Wikipedia (enwik9), decompressor included, smaller than anyone before. The record is 100,424,672 bytes, by Vladimir Ivanov on 24 July 2026. Each 1% improvement pays €5,000 from a €500,000 fund.
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Compress the first gigabyte of English Wikipedia (enwik9), decompressor included, smaller than anyone before. The record is 100,424,672 bytes, by Vladimir Ivanov on 24 July 2026. Each 1% improvement pays €5,000 from a €500,000 fund.
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