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Tɛmplet:Wikistats While you read this, Wikipedia develops at a rate of over -4.1 edits every second, performed by editors from all over the world. Currently, the English Wikipedia includes 10,803 articles and it averages -2391 new articles per day. This amount of data can be analyzed in many ways. The best way to get an idea of the bigger picture is with statistics.

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)

Charts

Statistical breakdowns using lists, tables and rankings.

Item counts for English Wikipedia (update)
Item	Count
Articles	0.01×10⁶
Pages	0×10⁷
Files	0×10⁵
Edits	0×10⁹
Users	0×10⁷
Admins	2
Active users^{[note 1]}	0×10⁵
See more

Size

Tɛmplet:Wikipedia article graph

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

Edits per editor

List of Wikipedians by number of edits – 10,000 editors with highest editcounts, updated daily.
List of Wikipedians by article count – top 10,000 editors by article creation
Registered editors by edit count – how many registered editors have made a given number of edits
WRating — evaluates the contribution of Wikipedia contributors to its traffic over the past month.

Edits per article

Wikipedia:Database reports/Pages with the most revisions
- Special:MostRevisions - similar to the above but only for articles
Wikipedia:Database reports/Most edited articles last month
stats.wikimedia.org - interactive tool
Most frequently edited pages – Inactive since May 2008.

Overall edit volume

New articles created per day – can be filtered by user group or namespace
Time between edits – length of time (measured in days) between each block of 10,000,000 edits made to Wikipedia, starting January 16, 2001, and ending with the most recently completed block

Articles by quality

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Statistics

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.

Images

As of 2022, about 50% of articles at the English Wikipedia contain at least one image.

As of 2014 a relatively stable 10% of editors who make over 5 edits each month make over 100 edits.
Graph showing the number of days between every 10,000,000 edits.

Links

Special:MostLinkedPages
User:Emijrp/External Links Ranking – Top 1,000 most linked domains from external links as of June 2014 (all namespaces).
linkypedia^{[dead link]} (Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-08-16/In the news#In brief)

Page views

Shortcuts

The English Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects can get ~10 billion views per month each. See overview at Wikimedia Statistics.

Tools to check traffic statistics

Overall traffic

https://stats.wikimedia.org/ - Wikimedia Stats (for viewing per-project statistics)
toolforge:siteviews – Siteviews Analysis (for viewing the total number of pageviews to a project, or the number of unique devices)
Article traffic jumps – a place to document unusual jumps in article traffic.

Articles with the most page views overall

This includes rankings overall, by time period and sudden traffic spikes.

toolforge:topviews – Topviews Analysis (for viewing the most viewed pages of a project)
WikiShark – Article traffic statistics and comparisons between articles
The Open Wikipedia Ranking – - most viewed, can be filtered by category
Wikipedia:Top 25 Report – top 25 most popular articles weekly chart with human commentary, republished as The Signpost Traffic Report
Wikipedia:Article traffic jumps
Wikipedia:Popular pages – top-100 list of most viewed pages for 2007–2021
Did you know/Statistics

Articles with the most page views by topic

Category:Lists of popular pages by WikiProject – these projects use pageview data to focus article improvement efforts on popular but poor quality articles
- Wikipedia:Lists of popular pages by WikiProject - similar manually maintained list
- User:Community Tech bot/Popular pages - list of such pages configured for this bot
Pageviews Analysis – article traffic statistics, also allowing comparisons between articles (documentation, local documenation, FAQ, wikitech:Analytics/AQS/Pageviews API documentation)
- User:Dsimic/Traffic stats calculation – a PHP program that calculates monthly stats for a list of articles, using the Pageviews API

Traffic stats on specific articles

toolforge:langviews – Langviews Analysis (for viewing a page's statistics across all languages)
TreeViews – monthly view statistics for category trees
Massviews Analysis - accepts lists of articles or category names

Inactive

User:HostBot/Social media traffic report - retired May 2020
Wikitop – top 30 most popular articles by categories, with user comments on traffic jumps
User:West.andrew.g/Popular pages – weekly 5,000 most popular articles based on raw data - inactive since February 7, 2020.
- Popular pages by Andrew West for 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.
Wikitrends – top 10 today/this week/this month, and trends (also links for other-language Wikipedia) - not updated since October, 2017
- Summaries for each language Wikipedia for: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
Some Alexa statistics – for the English Wikipedia - discontinued in May 2022
Wikipedia is more popular than... – a list of Alexa traffic comparisons (last updated February 2018)
Top 50 pages for August 2006 - May 2007, https://chrisharrison.net/projects/wikitop/Top50Final2high.png
The 50 most-viewed Wikipedia articles in 2009 and 2008 (The Daily Telegraph)
ZeitGeist (stats.wikimedia.org) - retired at the end of 2018
- Zeitgeist 2008-2013
Wikipedia:Most popular pages October 2001
Wikipedia:Popular pages (historical)
- 2003: Oct.
- 2004: Mar. through Sep.
- 2008: May.
Most read articles in 2008
Most read articles in 2009
Most read articles in 2010
{{stats.grok.se}} — http://stats.grok.se/ - Data collection stopped on 21 January 2016. Was used for viewing older per-page statistics, but offline since March, 2017.

Deletion and vandalism statistics

This page shows the number of mainspace articles deleted each day.
Statistics about Articles for Deletion discussions can be found at User:JPxG/Oracle.
Statistics about deletion and other administrator actions can be found at the WP:Adminstats page.
A list of recently deleted files can be found at Special:Log/delete.
An outdated list of revision deletion statistics can be found here.
A (currently broken) page that showed reverts over recent days using counter-vandalism tools (ClueBot NG, Huggle, STiki) and by other means.

Analytics

The analytics.wikimedia.org site provides

User Agent Breakdowns grouping results by operating system and browser
vital-signs total views for different Wikipedia sites

Visualizations

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

Visualisation tools
Tool	Topic	Code	Description
WikiShark	Page views		WikiShark enables the viewing and comparison of pageview traffic data from the years 2008–. The data is updated hourly.
Listen to Wikipedia	Edits	GitHub	Visual and audio illustration of live editing activity on Wikipedia.
Pageviews Analysis	Page views	GitHub	Page views statistics for several Wikipedia languages. You can select by month and the last 10, 20, 30, 60 or 90 days.
WikiChecker (broken)	Edits		Actuality of Wikipedia based on last edits, ranking by users and pages. Edit-war detector and more.
Wikistats2	Edits Page views	GitHub	Numbers and graphs for several core metrics, updated monthly with data and newer features added quarterly.
Wikistats1 (historical)	Edits		Erik Zachte's statistics for all projects and all languages. Historical information captured monthly until 31 January 2019. Replaced by Wikistats2.
wikipulse (broken)	Edits	GitHub	A real-time view of current edit rates on various major language Wikipedias using node.js. The app connects to Wikimedia IRC chatrooms where page edits are announced by a bot, and keeps track of the edits.
wlm-stats (historical)	GLAM	GitHub	Statistics and graphs about the Wiki Loves Monuments photograph contest. Historical information captured until September 2018. It offers metadata files to create your own statistics.
wmcharts (broken)	Edits	GitHub	A collection of charts about Wikimedia projects, including activity on recent changes, new pages, deletions, blocks, protections, file uploads, reverts and more.
wmcounter (broken)	Edits	GitHub	A near real-time edit counter for all Wikimedia projects together. Every increase means that someone in any part of the world has clicked the "Save" button and sent their changes. Pretty amazing to see, perfect for background in wiki conferences. The 1 billionth edit took place on April 16, 2010.
wikipedia diversity observatory (historical)	Content Diversity	GitHub	WDO is a collection of dashboards with visualizations and tools which show the gaps in terms of concepts not represented or not shared across languages. It helps bridging the gaps in culture, gender, geography, LGBT+, ethnic groups, among others. Historical data last updated in September 2020.

Frameworks

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

Datasets

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

Templates

Template:Article links with page views (Shortcut {{Alwpv}})
Template:Check views
Template:Link article stats
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Archived statistics

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.phtml?title=Special:Allpages&from=Train falls under w/wiki.phtml, 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

Archived analysis

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.

Notes

References

External links

A list of Wikipedia articles created last month/week/day with most users contributing to article within the same period.
Erik Zachte's site
List of tools in WikiPapers, with some statistical tools for wikis and Wikipedia
Wikimedia Foundation analytics team pages on MediaWiki.org, with e.g. definitions of some common metrics
Wikipedia Page History Statistics
Wikishark Wikipedia Includes pageviews for all articles in all languages on Wikipedia
Wikistats: Wikimedia Statistics

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