Wikipedia:Statistics

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WP:STAT and WP:STATS link here. This page lists sources of statistics about Wikipedia. For the WikiProject on the mathematical science of statistics, see WikiProject Statistics. For the status page, see Special:Statistics. For guidelines concerning the use of statistical information in articles see WP:NOT#STATS. For information of pageview statistics, see Help:Pageview stats.

At a rate of 600 words a minute, 16 hours a day, a person could read about 17,000,000 words in a month. In the month of July 2006, Wikipedia grew by over 30,000,000 words. Reading the current incarnation at that rate would take over seven years, and by the time they were done, so much would have changed with the parts they had already read that they would have to start over. The best way to get an idea of the bigger picture is with statistics. The available statistics cover 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.

Automatically updated statistics

• Special:Statistics – a page that reports the current number of articles, which can also be seen wherever the MediaWiki feature {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} is used. Also recorded are the total number of pages overall, the number of edits and edits per page, and the number of registered users and administrators, along with links to other statistics pages.
• Wikipedia:Database reports – a page that contains an index of automatically generated reports about the project.

Active counters

• Number of pages: 30,214,124
• Number of articles: 4,237,628
• Number of files: 806,717
• Number of edits: 613,734,949
• Number of Users: 19,012,455
• Number of admins: 1,447
• Number of active users: 128,321 (Users who have performed an action in the last 30 days)

Edits

The 1 billionth edit took place on April 16, 2010.

• Wikimedia projects edits counter – near real-time
• wmcharts – several charts about recent edits, uploads, blocks, deletions, new accounts, reverts, and many more
• WikiChecker – actuality of Wikipedia (edit statistics)
• Wikipulse - real-time view of current edit rates on major Wikipedias.

Page views

• User:West.andrew.g/Popular pages (Current 5,000 most popular articles based on raw data) (October 2012 - )
• Wikipedia:5000/Top25Report (Top 25 most popular articles weekly chart) (January 2013 - )
• Top 10 today/this week/this month, and trends (also links for other-language Wikipedia)
• Top 100 pages for all of 2012 (also links for other-language Wikipedias)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Popular pages (This project uses pageview data to focus article improvement efforts on popular but poor quality articles)
• Page view statistics for Wikimedia projects – raw page access data for all Wikipedia projects, in all languages (see Wikimedia page views, some good and bad news July 28, 2010, 1:31, GMT+2)
• stats.grok.se – article traffic statistics. Often not updated to make recent months selectable from the drop-down list. The work-around is to select statistics for any available month, and then edit the URL to specify the wanted month.
• Wikipedia's reach, traffic and ranking compared to other websites – graphs and comparison statistics provided by Alexa Internet
• Wikipedia compared with other sites – graph using the above to compare Wikipedia against various top 10 sites.
• The 1000 most-visited sites on the web - according to Google/DoubleClick.
• Wikitrends – Articles with highest recent uptrend, based on page views.
• toolserver.org/~emw/wikistats/ – article traffic statistics, incorporating features often requested for stats.grok.se

Periodically updated statistics

Manually created chart of English-language Wikipedia Article Count: January 2001 – May 2013

A number of statistics have been generated by various people from database downloads, which allow them to analyze the Wikipedia database automatically using various programs and scripts. The frequency of updates varies according to when new downloads are available and how often the maintainers can produce them.

• Wikimedia Report Card, numbers and graphs for several core metrics (including unique visitors and page views for the entirety of Wikimedia projects), updated monthly
• Wikipedia Statistics Sitemap – Erik Zachte's statistics for all projects and all languages. Updated monthly.
• List of Wikipedians by number of edits – 10,000 editors with highest editcounts updated weekly.
  • User:Emijrp/List of Wikipedians by number of edits – 1,000 editors with highest edit counts, updated daily. It uses the user_editcount value from the user table.
  • meta:List of Wikimedians by number of edits – Updated daily. It uses the user_editcount value from user table
• List of Wikipedians by number of recent edits – Updated based on data as of 16 January 2011.
• List of Wikipedians by article count – 3,000 editors with highest article counts updated weekly.
• Category:Lists of popular pages by WikiProject
• Wikipedia:Lists of popular pages by WikiProject
• linkypedia (Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-08-16/In the news#In brief)
• User:West.andrew.g/Popular pages – articles receiving the most page views; updated every ten days

Manually updated statistics

These are compilations of statistical information that are updated regularly from outside sources.

• Wikipedia is more popular than... – a list of Alexa traffic comparisons

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:

• 2003 March – List of articles frequently visited through Google
• 2004 February – Pages from English Wikipedia with more than 1000 hits
• 2004 February – Pages from English Wikipedia with more than 1000 hits & Wikipedia namespace
• 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. 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 April – As above, but updated (now gone)
• 2004 April – Traffic - an old system for measuring traffic
• 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 February/October – Web browsers used to access Wikipedia
• 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, and instructions on how to read some of the more interesting graphs.
• 2005 October – Wikipedia:Words per article
• 2006 January – Search engine statistics
• 2006 January – Most referenced articles, a list of the articles that are linked to by the greatest number of other articles
• 2006 March – Stub percentages, information on stubs as a percentage of total articles
• 2006 July – WikiProject creation and attrition trends
• 2006 September – Articles which are number 1 for one-word Google searches
• 2007 June – Wikimedia page views (Referrers) "not very scientific, but some might find it interesting"
• 2008 May – Most frequently edited pages – Updated based on data as of 23 May 2008.
• 2008 October – Multilingual statistics – monthly details of total article count, and analysis of the monthly rate of article growth, for each version of Wikipedia.
• 2009 April – User:Bryan/List of users by pages created
• 2009 June – Wikipedia:Vandalism statistics
• 2009 September – THEwikiStics: Page Hits top 1000+ ^long-term(compare traffic | searches) | Logged search terms | popular last hour | Most missed articles
• 2010 January – comScore audience measurement data – analysis of data donated by one of the third-party measurement services
• 2010 May – Awareness statistics – tracking growth in public awareness

Analysis

Graph showing the number of days between every 10,000,000 edits.

• Size of Wikipedia – by count of articles
• 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
• User:Emijrp/External Links Ranking – Top 1000 most linked domains from external links as of April 2011 (all namespaces).
• 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 (viz., September 12, 2011)
• Article traffic jumps – a place to document unusual jumps in article traffic.

Articles by importance and quality

All rated articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low ??? Total FA 939 1,401 1,303 691 150 4,484 FL 130 503 543 511 122 1,809 A 152 290 471 247 69 1,229 GA 1,453 3,332 6,408 5,901 1,386 18,480 B 9,892 18,704 28,079 19,567 11,178 87,420 C 6,995 19,259 42,272 49,210 27,475 145,211 Start 14,125 58,648 229,423 472,138 191,784 966,118 Stub 4,265 27,892 189,711 1,229,191 873,468 2,324,527 List 2,023 7,747 21,877 52,493 29,830 113,970 Assessed 39,974 137,776 520,087 1,829,949 1,135,462 3,663,248 Unassessed 173 678 1,315 13,114 462,924 478,204 Total 40,147 138,454 521,402 1,843,063 1,598,386 4,141,452

About this table

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.

See also

• Statistics page for Wikimedia
• Milestones for Wikimedia projects
• Wikipedia:Pools
• Wikipedia:Wikipedia records
• Wikipedia:Statistics Department
• Wikipedia:WikiProject edit counters
• Temporal Analysis of the Wikigraph - Technical Report, 2006.
• Wikipedia's landmarks
• Wikipedia article depth
• Wikiversity:Statistics

External links

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