the information carried by wikimedia, wikicommons, wikipedia etc, is huge. they carry huge amounts of vid, pics, and audio files.
the traffic too and from it is also huge, and i mean extremely. many sites are populated with files from wiki media/source/pedia/dictionary/music/commons etc.
the only files leaks does are a few gigs for the whole shebang, apart from the view vids they have, at a guess i'd say wiki leaks is less than a tenth the size of the real wiki site. with fewer paid workers, servers and traffic. 30 mil for any site with same logistics to me would be preposterous.
How big is the database?
Early in Wikipedia's history, in February 2003 the database was about 4 GB in size. By August 2003, this had grown to roughly 16 GB, with uploaded images and media files taking up another gigabyte or so. By April 2004, this had grown to about 57 GB, and was growing at about 1 to 1.4 GB per week, and by October 2004, it had grown to about 170 GB. This includes all languages and support tables but not images and multimedia.
As of late August 2006, database storage takes about 1.2 terabytes:
* English Wikipedia core database: 163G
* Other Florida-based core databases: 213G
* Other Korea-based core databases: 117G
* Text storage nodes: 44G, 44G, 200G, 149G, 166G, 84G, 84G
This may include free space inside database storage files, as well as a lot of indexing.
Uploaded files took up approximately 372 gigabytes as of June 2006, excluding thumbnails.
Compressed database dumps can be downloaded at http://download.wikipedia.org/.
in three and a half years it grew from 4 gigs to 1.2 terabytes:
who know what their storage size is now, five years later?
the traffic too and from it is also huge, and i mean extremely. many sites are populated with files from wiki media/source/pedia/dictionary/music/commons etc.
the only files leaks does are a few gigs for the whole shebang, apart from the view vids they have, at a guess i'd say wiki leaks is less than a tenth the size of the real wiki site. with fewer paid workers, servers and traffic. 30 mil for any site with same logistics to me would be preposterous.
How big is the database?
Early in Wikipedia's history, in February 2003 the database was about 4 GB in size. By August 2003, this had grown to roughly 16 GB, with uploaded images and media files taking up another gigabyte or so. By April 2004, this had grown to about 57 GB, and was growing at about 1 to 1.4 GB per week, and by October 2004, it had grown to about 170 GB. This includes all languages and support tables but not images and multimedia.
As of late August 2006, database storage takes about 1.2 terabytes:
* English Wikipedia core database: 163G
* Other Florida-based core databases: 213G
* Other Korea-based core databases: 117G
* Text storage nodes: 44G, 44G, 200G, 149G, 166G, 84G, 84G
This may include free space inside database storage files, as well as a lot of indexing.
Uploaded files took up approximately 372 gigabytes as of June 2006, excluding thumbnails.
Compressed database dumps can be downloaded at http://download.wikipedia.org/.
in three and a half years it grew from 4 gigs to 1.2 terabytes:
who know what their storage size is now, five years later?