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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 6,857,209 articles and it averages 534 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.
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.
Statistical breakdowns using lists, tables and rankings.
| Item | Count |
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| Articles | 6.86×106 |
| Pages | 6.11×107 |
| Files | 9.21×105 |
| Edits | 1.23×109 |
| Users | 4.77×107 |
| Admins | 855 |
| Active users[note 1] | 1.13×105 |
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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.
As of 2022, about 50% of articles on the English Wikipedia contain at least one image.
The English Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects can get ~10 billion views per month each. See overview at Wikimedia Statistics.
This includes rankings overall, by time period and sudden traffic spikes.
The analytics.wikimedia.org site provides
The following tools include artistic, graphs, maps and other visualization projects.
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| WikiShark | Page views | WikiShark enables the viewing and comparison of pageview traffic data from the years 2008–. The data is updated hourly. | 
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| Listen to Wikipedia | Edits | GitHub | Visual and audio illustration of live editing activity on Wikipedia. | 
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| 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. | 
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| WikiChecker (broken) | Edits | Actuality of Wikipedia based on last edits, ranking by users and pages. Edit-war detector and more. | 
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| 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. | 
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| 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. | 
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| 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. | 
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| 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. | 
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| 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. | 
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| 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. | 
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There are some available datasets that you can download and process:
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:
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