While you read this page, Wikipedia develops at a rate of over 2 edits every second, performed by editors from all over the world. Currently, the English Wikipedia includes 6,816,028 articles and it averages 537 new articles per day. In 2023, 812,635 registered editors made at least one edit. This amount of data can be analyzed in many ways. The best way to get an idea of the bigger picture is with statistics.

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This page shows some figures about Wikipedia, analysis of different patterns, and compiles related tools, covering various aspects of Wikipedia, whether as an encyclopedia, a website, or a community. Some provide current snapshots and others track growth and development over time. It also includes frameworks and datasets that can help you in creating your own statistics.

Below are links to some of the most prominent pages that serve as hubs for multiple databases and reports that provide continuous updated data regarding recent activity and development at Wikipedia. Other links further down this page pertain to specific quantitative indicators.

• Special:Statistics – automatically generated statistics about the English Wikipedia
• Wikimedia Statistics – statistics for all Wikimedia projects, including English Wikipedia (English Wikipedia statistics dashboard)
• Wiki comparison - annually updated spreadsheet providing key statistics for all Wikimedia projects, including English Wikipedia
• Database reports – index of automatically generated reports about English Wikipedia (GitHub)

Statistical breakdowns using lists, tables and rankings.

Size

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.

Number of English Wikipedia articles^[1]

• Size of Wikipedia – by the number of articles, number of words, and gigabytes of data
• Size of Wikipedia in volumes – to see the size of Wikipedia in print encyclopedia volumes
• Size comparisons – comparisons against other encyclopedias and information collections
• Modelling Wikipedia's growth – analysis of the count of articles, attempting to fit mathematical growth models
• {{NUMBEROF}} template to display many WMF site stats

Articles by quality

More information All rated articles by quality and importance, Quality ...

All rated articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low ??? Total FA 1,556 2,447 2,375 1,890 180 8,448 FL 179 665 761 695 109 2,409 A 354 682 782 579 83 2,480 GA 3,162 7,187 14,510 18,980 1,732 45,571 B 16,557 32,121 53,022 65,370 20,171 187,241 C 16,546 53,040 132,154 295,713 83,987 581,440 Start 18,478 91,808 411,386 1,573,340 395,672 2,490,684 Stub 4,227 31,623 278,223 2,771,601 760,305 3,845,979 List 4,754 16,852 53,021 187,700 66,661 328,988 Assessed 65,813 236,425 946,234 4,915,868 1,328,900 7,493,240 Unassessed 117 480 1,254 19,037 424,438 445,326 Total 65,930 236,905 947,488 4,934,905 1,753,338 7,938,566 About this table

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As of 2022, the median article is a stub. This typically means that it contains a few sentences on the subject. (Elements such as images, infoboxes, and most lists are not usually counted in this calculation.)

As a rule of thumb, the more popular the article is as measured by page views, the higher quality it will be.

The following tools include artistic, graphs, maps and other visualization projects.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wikimedia page view statistics.

• mediawiki-utilities – A set of utilities for accessing and processing MediaWiki data, including XML dumps

There are some available datasets that you can download and process:

• Wikipedia:Database download
• meta:Research:Data Overview over various data sources for analyzing Wikipedia, including page view numbers

• Template:Article links with page views (Shortcut {{Alwpv}})
• Template:Check views
• Template:Link article stats
• Template:La
• Template:TAFI nom

The following statistical resources are currently unavailable or no longer updated, and listed for historical interest. They are sorted by the month in which they were last updated:

• 2013 September – List of Wikipedians by number of recent edits – covers 2004–2013.
• 2010 May – Awareness statistics – tracking growth in public awareness
• 2010 January – comScore audience measurement data – analysis of data donated by one of the third-party measurement services
• 2009 September – THEwikiStics: Page Hits top 1000+ ^long-term (compare traffic | searches) | Logged search terms | popular last hour | Most missed articles
• 2009 June – Wikipedia:Vandalism statistics
• 2009 April – User:Bryan/List of users by pages created
• 2008 October – Multilingual statistics – monthly details of total article count, and analysis of the monthly rate of article growth, for each version of Wikipedia.
• 2008 May – Most frequently edited pages – Updated based on data as of 23 May 2008.
• 2007 June – Wikimedia page views (Referrers) "not very scientific, but some might find it interesting"
• 2006 September – Articles which are number 1 for one-word Google searches
• 2006 July – WikiProject creation and attrition trends
• 2006 March – Stub percentages, information on stubs as a percentage of total articles
• 2006 January – Most referenced articles, a list of the articles that are linked to by the greatest number of other articles
• 2006 January – Search engine statistics
• 2005 October – Wikipedia:Words per article
• 2005 July – Alterego's WikiPulse (which has now disappeared) gathered many statistics every hour from various sources. Some of the statistics, such as the mailing list totals, most active Wikipedian per hour and per day, and most edited article per hour and per day were unique. There was also an rss feed^{[dead link]}, and instructions on how to read some of the more interesting graphs.
• 2004 February/October – Web browsers used to access Wikipedia
• 2004 August – List of Wikipedians by most recent edit – listed based on number of articles to which they had made the most recent edit
• 2004 April – As below, but updated (now gone)^{[dead link]}
• 2004 April – Traffic – an old system for measuring traffic
• 2004 March – A whole list of accessed Wikipedia pages: (as of 23 March 2004: 38 MB) is a list of all pages accessed in March 2004 (as of 23 March 2004: 684,000), in all namespaces, sorted by number of times that they have been accessed; includes pages that do not exist^{[dead link]}. URLs are taken until ampersand or question mark, if any, hence w/wiki.pdoc?title=Special:Allpages&from=Train falls under w/wiki.pdoc, but the equivalent wiki/Special:Allpages/Train would be listed separately (now gone)
• 2004 February – Pages from English Wikipedia with more than 1000 hits and Wikipedia namespace
• 2004 February – Pages from English Wikipedia with more than 1000 hits
• 2003 March – List of articles frequently visited through Google

• Does Wikipedia traffic obey Zipf's law? – as of September 2006, the answer appears to be "yes, approximately".
• Top 500 websites by number of inbound links from Wikipedia – reveals most linked domains from external Wikipedia links. Updated November 2006.
• User:Dragons flight/Log analysis – Edit rate, Edits per article, Revert rate, New articles, new users, new administrators, Uploads and admin actions. Updated Oct 2007.
• Editing frequency – Statistics on users' editing activity, monthly from January 2001 through September 2008.
• Wikipedia Workload Analysis for Decentralized Hosting – July 2009 analysis of a sample of Wikipedia's traffic over a 107-day period.

• meta.wikimedia/Milestones for Wikimedia projects
• meta.wikimedia/Statistics page for Wikimedia
• meta.wikimedia/Wikipedia article depth
• Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia
• User essay/All human knowledge
• User essay/Temporal Analysis of the Wikigraph – Technical Report, 2006.
• Wikipedia:Article traffic jumps
• Wikipedia:Pools
• Wikipedia:Statistics Department – an inactive WikiProject
• Wikipedia:Wikipedia records
• Wikipedia's timeline