Wikipedia talk:Size of Wikipedia#ISO 8601 dates

Hi, am I missing something here?

Wikipedia continues to grow, and the number of articles on Wikipedia is increasing by about 140,000 a month (as of January 2024). The number of articles added to Wikipedia every month reached its peak in 2006, at over 50,000 new articles a month.

Is this a typo & 140,000 should be 14,000? Blackballnz (talk) 02:23, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

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The redirect [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=How_big_is_wikipedia&redirect=no How big is wikipedia] has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at {{section link|1=Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 May 28#How big is wikipedia}} until a consensus is reached. Rusalkii (talk) 23:52, 28 May 2025 (UTC)

As seen today (2025-06-14 11:30 UTC) the size of the compressed English language Wikipedia database is given in the article as around 24.05GB. From a look at the [https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20250601/ latest dump] this is listed as 23.40GB, which is about 650MB less. I'm aware compression differences/ranged article removals could cause this, but it's making me reluctant to update the information on this article.

Also, if it's of any use; I recently ran a decompression test of the English Wikipedia dump from 2025-05-01 and that - About 24.87GB compressed - Decompresses to 109GB. It may be of interest to some readers, but with the differences between the sizes on this page and in the latest dump (Am I looking at the correct Wikipedia dumps for size info?) I'd like some consensus before I add potentially inaccurate information to the article.

ᛒᚱᛟᚴᛂᚾ ᚢᛁᚴᛁᚾᚷ (Broken Viking|T·C) 11:39, 14 June 2025 (UTC)