Wikipedia:Statistics

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While you read this, Wikipedia and its sister projects develop at a rate of over 10 edits per second, performed by editors from all over the world.^[1] Currently, the English Wikipedia includes 6,873,584 articles and it averages 800 new articles per day.^[2] This amount of data can be analysed in a huge number of 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 includes also frameworks and datasets that can help you in creating your own statistics.

Statistics

English Wikipedia (update)
Articles	6,873,584
Pages	61,326,940
Files	923,747
Edits	1,237,744,544
Users	47,872,428
Admins	854
Active users^{[note 1]}	113,535
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Analysis

A number of analysis of wiki metrics like edits, page creation, visits and links. In the form of lists, tables and rankings.

General

https://stats.wikimedia.org
Database reports – An index of automatically generated reports about English Wikipedia (GitHub)
Size of Wikipedia – by the count of articles 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
Number of words, edits, articles (by month), e.g. for English: http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm
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 (currently 18 September 2016)
Article traffic jumps – a place to document unusual jumps in article traffic.

Articles and edits

List of Wikipedians by number of edits – 10,000 editors with highest editcounts, updated daily.
- List of Wikipedians by number of recent edits – Updated based on data as of 16 January 2011.
List of Wikipedians by article count – 5,000 editors with highest article counts updated weekly.

All rated articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	???	Total
FA	1,571	2,483	2,405	1,928	180	8,567
FL	180	674	775	703	103	2,435
A	364	683	790	579	91	2,507
GA	3,212	7,300	14,688	19,406	1,742	46,348
B	16,867	32,705	54,084	68,209	22,809	194,674
C	16,786	53,823	134,674	306,397	90,141	601,821
Start	18,482	92,300	415,082	1,609,812	407,071	2,542,747
Stub	4,296	31,526	278,429	2,796,792	762,564	3,873,607
List	4,829	17,102	53,753	192,912	68,414	337,010
Assessed	66,587	238,596	954,680	4,996,738	1,353,115	7,609,716
Unassessed	124	477	1,245	17,819	416,733	436,398
Total	66,711	239,073	955,925	5,014,557	1,769,848	8,046,114

About this table

Images

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

User:Emijrp/External Links Ranking – Top 1,000 most linked domains from external links as of April 2011 (all namespaces).
linkypedia (Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-08-16/In the news#In brief)

Page views

Shortcut

WP:VIEWSSTATS

stats.grok.se – article traffic statistics, with an FAQ at User:Killiondude/stats
Pageviews Analysis – article traffic statistics, also allowing comparisons between articles (documentation)
Wikitop – top 30 most popular articles by categories, with user comments on traffic jumps
Wikirank – most viewed or most important articles by Wikidata categories
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
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
Wikipedia:Top 25 Report – top 25 most popular articles weekly chart
WikiViewStats – ^{[dead link]} interactive chart of most accessed pages
TreeViews – monthly view statistics for category trees
Wikitrends – top 10 today/this week/this month, and trends (also links for other-language Wikipedia)
User:West.andrew.g/Popular pages – current weekly 5,000 most popular articles based on raw data
Wikipedia:Multiyear ranking of most viewed pages – top-100 list of most viewed pages for 2007-2016
Wikipedia is more popular than... – a list of Alexa traffic comparisons
Top 100 pages for all of 2013 – also links for other-language Wikipedias
User:Dsimic/Traffic stats calculation – a PHP program that calculates monthly stats for a list of articles, using stats data provided by the Pageview API

Deletion and vandalism statistics

As of January 2016^[update], more than 1,000 pages are deleted from Wikipedia each day.
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.
Revision deletion statistics can be found here.

Visualizations

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

Tool	Topic	Code	Description
Listen to Wikipedia	Edits	GitHub	A visual and audio illustration of live editing activity on Wikipedia.
stats.grok.se	Page views	GitHub	Page views statistics for several Wikipedia languages. You can select by month and the last 30, 60 or 90 days. It can be exported in JSON.
Wiki Trends	Page views		English Wikipedia articles traffic statistics. Trend lines for several articles can be shown in one chart. Linear, logarithmic and normalised vertical scales are possible.
WikiChecker	Edits		Actuality of Wikipedia based on last edits, ranking by users and pages. Edit-war detector and more.
Wikimedia Report Card	Edits Page views	GitHub	Numbers and graphs for several core metrics, updated monthly.
Vital Signs	Edits Page views	GitHub	Numbers and graphs for several core metrics, updated daily.
Wikipedia Statistics	Edits		Erik Zachte's statistics for all projects and all languages. Updated monthly.
wikipulse	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	GLAM	GitHub	Statistics and graphs about the Wiki Loves Monuments photograph contest. It offers metadata files to create your own statistics.
wmcharts	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	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 his or her changes. Pretty amazing to see, perfect for background in wiki conferences. The 1 billionth edit took place on April 16, 2010.

Frameworks

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

Datasets

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

Wikipedia:Database download
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)

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:

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 & 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

^ Registered users who have performed an action in the last 30 days; the number of unregistered active users is not compiled

References

External links

Wikimedia Foundation analytics team pages on MediaWiki.org, with e.g. definitions of some common metrics
Wikishark Wikipedia Statistics Includes pageviews for all articles in all languages on wikipedia - ACTIVE and hourly updated.
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

[3] Registered users who have performed an action in the last 30 days; the number of unregistered active users is not compiled

[1] Wikimedia projects edits counter

[2] wmcharts – New pages

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