Early in Wikipedia's history, in August 2003, the database was roughly 16 GB and uploaded images and media files took another gigabyte or so. In February
2003 it was about 4 GB. 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.