Wikipedia:Statistics

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While you read this page, Wikimedia projects develop at a rate of over 18 edits every second performed by editors from all over the world, while receiving almost 10,000 page views every second.^{[note 1]} There are Wikipedias in over 300 different languages and hundreds of sister projects.^[1]

Specifically, English Wikipedia receives 2 edits and more than 4,000 page views every second.^{[note 2]} As of February 2025, English Wikipedia includes 6,949,402 articles and it averages around 500 new articles per day. Around 11 MB of encyclopedic text is added to the articles on a daily basis (4 GB in a year).^{[note 3]} Since its inception, over 11.9 million users have edited English Wikipedia at least once.^[2] The number of users who have made more than 5 edits are 3.6 million (37,750 in the last month).^[2]

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)

As of 2025, there are 838 active Wikimedia projects of a total of 1032.^[3] Of these active projects, 338 are Wikipedias and 171 are Wiktionaries. The largest projects are Wikidata (115,286,328 items)^[4] and Wikimedia Commons (113,646,900 files).^[5]

The largest Wikipedia is the English language edition (6,949,402 articles). It is followed by the Cebuano (6,116,831 articles) and German (2,984,406 articles) editions. The Cebuano Wikipedia uses bots to create most of its articles.

Other less known projects include Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikisource, Wikivoyage and Wikispecies.

• Size of Wikipedia – by 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
• {{NUMBEROF}} – template to display Wikimedia Foundation site stats

Source: commons:Data:Wikipedia statistics/data.tab

‹ The template Pie chart is being considered for merging. › Comparison of Wikipedias by number of articles.   English Wikipedia (10.8%)   Cebuano Wikipedia (9.5%)   German Wikipedia (4.6%)   French Wikipedia (4.1%)   Swedish Wikipedia (4%)   Dutch Wikipedia (3.4%)   Russian Wikipedia (3.1%)   Spanish Wikipedia (3.1%)   Other 300+ languages (57.4%)

‹ The template Pie chart is being considered for merging. › Comparison of English-language sister projects by number of edits, excluding Wikipedia.   English Wiktionary (70.4%)   English Wikisource (12.5%)   English Wikivoyage (4.2%)   English Wikinews (4.1%)   English Wikibooks (3.6%)   English Wikiquote (3.1%)   English Wikiversity (2.2%)

Pages are placed in different namespaces according to their contents. Encyclopedic pages (articles, lists and disambiguations) are located in namespace 0 (main), files are in the namespace 6, and categories are in namespace 14. All namespaces have an associated talk page namespace and all of them allow redirects.

As of 2025, English Wikipedia has 62,460,429 pages. The current text content in all its pages is about 156 GB in size.^[2] When counting all the revisions in histories, the size is 26,455 GB (26 TB).^[2] All this data is publicly available and can be downloaded from the Wikimedia Downloads site in different compression formats (7z, bz2).^[6]

As of 2025, English Wikipedia has 6,949,402 articles which have received 825 million edits from 11.9 million users since the project's inception.^[2] The current text content in all its articles is about 58 GB in size.^[7] The Kiwix version (an offline reader) of the English Wikipedia including images is 109 GB after applying some optimization and compression.^[8]

As of January 2025, the longest article is Opinion polling for the 2024 United Kingdom general election with 691,567 bytes^[9] and the most edited is List of WWE personnel with over 58,000 edits.^[10] There are bigger pages with over 3 MB in size^[11] and 2 million edits^[12] but are related to Wikipedia maintenance.

In the last years, on average around 200,000 articles have been created every year in English Wikipedia. The number of creations has declined since it peaked in 2006 with over 584,000 new articles created that year.^[13]

In 2024, 4,315,904,087 bytes of encyclopedic text was added to articles, or around 11 MB of text every day.^[14] An average English book volume of 500 pages and 2,000 characters per page fits in 1 MB. Therefore, Wikipedia editors add 11 book volumes to the encyclopedia every day.

• Modelling Wikipedia's growth – analysis of the count of articles, attempting to fit mathematical growth models

Source: Wikiscan

As of 2025, English Wikipedia has 2.4 million categories.^[15] The page with most categories is List of ISO 639-2 codes with 354 categories.^[16] The categories with most pages are related to Wikipedia maintenance.^[17]

Source: Wikiscan

Wikimedia Commons is the main media repository for Wikimedia projects. As of 2025, the repository contains 113,646,900 free-to-use media files^[18] or around 585 TB.^[19] English Wikipedia allows uploading files locally, though they must comply with the non-free content criteria, having 932,156 files to date.^[20]

Besides images (100,306,082 files), content in other formats is also available: audio (3,528,861 files), video (337,254), PDFs (5,043,585) and 3D files (9,910).^[19] The most linked images are related to Wikipedia maintenance.^[21]

Wikimedia Commons has over 270,000 images with more than 50 megapixels.^[22] Almost 10,000 files are over 1 GB, the bigger ones (5 GB) are mostly films from the silent era.^[23] The largest image is a 20th-century map of Vienna (3.94 GB).^[24][25]

As of 2022, about 50% of articles on the English Wikipedia contain at least one image.^{[citation needed]}

Source: Wikiscan

As of 2025, English Wikipedia has 8.1 million talk pages for articles.^[15] The figure is greater than the number of articles because the archival system creates multiple talk pages for some pages when the size is too big.

On average, every year around 2-3 million edits are done by humans to article talk pages, which can be understood as message exchanges during article development.^[26]

Source: Wikiscan

As of 2025, English Wikipedia has 11.2 million redirects to articles.^[15] On average, every article has almost 2 redirects, though the article with most redirects is Hangul (the modern writing system for the Korean language) with over 7000 redirects.^[27]

Source: Wikiscan

The most common actions include editing articles and reading them. Among the special actions that requires admin rights are blocking users, protecting pages and deleting content.

In 2024, people from all over the world did 597 million edits to Wikimedia projects.^[28] Wikipedia (in all languages) received 180 million edits^[29] and English Wikipedia 72 million edits.^[30]

In the last years, around 11-13% of edits are mobile edits and 6-8% are done using VisualEditor.^[31] Roughly, about 4-5% of all edits are reverts.^[32]

Source: Wikiscan

Considering all Wikimedia projects, around 18 edits are submitted every second, half of them are done by bots.

Source: Wikimedia Statistics

In 2024, Wikimedia projects had 296 billion page views, this figure is similar to the number of stars in the Milky Way. On average, Wikimedia projects have over 24 billion page views per month, or almost 10,000 page views every second.^[33]

Particularly, English Wikipedia had 130 billion page views in 2024, and 11 billion in December 2024, with 3 billion coming from the United States, 844 million from the United Kingdom, 664 million from India and 368 million from Canada.^[34]

In 2024, the ten most viewed articles in English Wikipedia were Deaths in 2024 (49 million views), YouTube (42M), 2024 United States presidential election (30M), Kamala Harris (29M), Donald Trump (27M), Indian Premier League (24M), Deadpool & Wolverine (22M), Project 2025 (20M), ChatGPT (18M) and 2024 Indian general election (18M).^[35] It reflects current events and it is shaped by the geographical procedence of each Wikipedia visitors and their interests. For example, in Spanish Wikipedia none of the ten most viewed articles were about the United States elections, being Donald Trump in the 31st position and Kamala Harris in the 68th.^[36]

Most articles have very low traffic. In 2023, 90% of articles averaged between zero and ten page views per day. The median article gets about one page view per week. Because the top 0.1% of high-traffic articles can each get millions of page views in a year, the mean is about 100 times the median.^{[citation needed]}

Between 2021 and 2024, ST47ProxyBot blocked millions of open proxies.^[37]

Source: Wikiscan

On average, in the last years around 15-20 thousand protections to articles are done annually.^[38] From the beginning of English Wikipedia, articles have received over 416,000 protections.^[38] The second and third most protected namespaces are templates (56,000 protections) and user talk pages (47,000 protections).^[38]

Source: Wikiscan

In the last years there is a decline in article deletions, but that is probably explained because many new articles are now created as drafts.^[39]

Source: Wikiscan

As of January 2025, featured articles comprise 6,665 out of a total of 6,941,668 articles on the English Wikipedia (about 0.1% or one out of every 1,040 articles). There are 4,548 featured lists and 8,199 featured pictures too.

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.)^{[citation needed]}

Gender bias includes various gender-related disparities on Wikipedia, particularly the overrepresentation of men among both volunteer contributors and article subjects.

As of January 2025, English Wikipedia has around 400,000 encyclopedic biographies about women, while having over 1.6 million about men.^[40]

• 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.
• As of 2023, about 162,000 unique registered editors and 85,000 unique IP addresses have ever edited an AFD page (usually to comment). This represents 1 out of every 85 successful registered editors.

All rated articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low ??? Total FA 1,588 2,530 2,428 1,996 184 8,726 FL 182 701 773 694 100 2,450 A 372 687 787 582 90 2,518 GA 3,293 7,480 15,007 20,145 1,780 47,705 B 17,240 33,470 55,465 72,185 23,817 202,177 C 17,205 55,153 138,164 322,413 93,545 626,480 Start 18,600 93,292 420,864 1,662,571 417,420 2,612,747 Stub 4,214 31,290 277,021 2,816,474 759,865 3,888,864 List 4,956 17,517 54,965 204,951 82,533 364,922 Assessed 67,650 242,120 965,474 5,102,011 1,379,334 7,756,589 Unassessed 114 412 981 16,148 389,352 407,007 Total 67,764 242,532 966,455 5,118,159 1,768,686 8,163,596 About this table

English Wikipedia has over 2,000 wikiprojects, about 1,000 of which are monitored by 30–2,000 editors, all with varying levels of activity.^[41]

As of 2025, the most active wikiproject (non-related to Wikipedia maintenance) by number of changes to all its pages in the last 365 days is Women in Red.^[42]

Users who contribute to Wikipedia by editing its pages are wikipedians, unlike readers who simply read the articles.

As of January 2025, over 11.9 million users have edited English Wikipedia at least once.^[2] The number of users with more than 5 edits are 3.6 million (37,750 in the last month).^[2]

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Visualisation tools

Tool	Topic	Code	Description	Image
Quarry	Databases		Query Wikimedia projects databases.
mediawiki-utilities	Data processing	GitHub	A set of utilities for accessing and processing MediaWiki data, including XML dumps
pywikibot	Bots	GitHub	Python library and collection of tools that automate work on MediaWiki sites.
WikiShark	Page views		WikiShark enables the viewing and comparison of pageview traffic data from the years 2008–present. 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.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wikimedia page view statistics.

The analytics.wikimedia.org site provides

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

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

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

• 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 (archived 2012) – 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

Wikimedia Commons has media related to English Wikipedia statistics.

• Wikimedia Statistics
• Erik Zachte's site
• 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
• A list of Wikipedia articles created last month/week/day with most users contributing to article within the same period.