Wikipedia:Multilingual statistics/2002

Other years: 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - current - 2001-2006 panorama

Article count, monthly totals

The table below shows the article count for the first day of each month for the currently functioning Wikipedia projects.

Individual years: 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - current

Language	Jan. 1 2002	Feb. 1 2002	Mar. 1 2002	Apr. 1 2002	May 1 2002	June 1 2002	July 1 2002	Aug. 1 2002	Sept. 1 2002	Oct. 1 2002	Nov. 1 2002	Dec. 1 2002	Jan. 1 2003
Afrikaans (af)	11	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	62	70	80	86	88
Basque (eu)	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	7	14	18	18
Bosnian (bs)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	15
Catalan (ca)	6	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	10	17	17	17
Chinese (zh)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	75	108
Czech (cs)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	16
Danish (da)	-	-	2	10	12	29	33	34	73	161	270	371	635
Dutch (nl)	185	289	428	958	1200	1300	1400	1500	2100	2400	3000	3700	4200
English (en)	17000	18000	27000	29000	31000	33000	36000	38000	43000	53000	90000	96000	100000
Esperanto (eo)	77	152	375	975	1500	2300	2600	3100	3500	3800	4100	4300	4500
Estonian (et)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	8	20	51	140
Finnish (fi)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	4	5	5
French (fr)	19	34	160	326	414	598	871	1400	2000	2500	2900	3500	4000
Frisian (fy)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	12	13	13	13
German (de)	955	1000	1200	1300	2000	3000	3800	4700	5300	6700	7500	8700	9800
Italian (it)	1	1	1	2	3	4	32	39	46	48	50	198	539
Japanese (ja)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	12	13	32	37
Korean (ko)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	12	16	21
Latin (la)	-	-	-	-	-	5	6	6	6	6	6	8	8
Malayalam (ml)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3
Norwegian (no)	36	36	199	446	458	464	472	477	479	481	482	489	489
Polish (pl)	427	692	961	1400	1800	2600	3000	3700	4300	5500	6200	6400	7000
Portuguese (pt)	159	162	167	173	174	188	212	224	233	236	255	270	301
Russian (ru)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	46
Simple English (simple)	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2
Spanish (es)	217	671	1300	1400	1400	1600	1600	1600	1600	1700	2000	2300	2500
Swedish (sv)	136	141	143	150	150	152	203	238	298	316	379	1800	4500
Turkish (tr)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
All Wikipedias	19234	21204	31963	36167	40138	45267	50256	55045	63016	76972	117318	128359	139002

Article count, monthly change

The following table shows the net monthly growth or decline of each Wikipedia project, by setting out the number of new articles, minus deletions, since the previous monthly count.

Individual years: 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 -2005 - 2006 - current

New articles per month

Language	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December	2002
Afrikaans	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	50	8	10	6	2	77
Basque	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	7	4	0	14
Bosnian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	15	15
Catalan	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	0	0	11
Chinese	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	73	33	108
Czech	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	13	16
Danish	0	2	8	2	17	4	1	39	88	109	101	264	635
Dutch	104	139	530	242	100	100	100	600	300	600	700	500	4015
English	1000	9000	2000	2000	2000	3000	2000	5000	10000	37000	6000	4000	83000
Esperanto	75	223	600	525	800	300	500	400	300	300	200	200	4423
Estonian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	4	12	31	89	140
Finnish	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	1	0	5
French	15	126	166	88	184	273	529	600	500	400	600	500	3981
Frisian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	1	0	0	13
German	45	200	100	700	1000	800	900	600	1400	800	1200	1100	8845
Italian	0	0	1	1	1	28	7	7	2	2	148	341	538
Japanese	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	1	19	5	37
Korean	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	4	5	21
Latin	0	0	0	0	5	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	8
Malayalam	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	3
Norwegian	0	163	247	12	6	8	5	2	2	1	7	0	453
Polish	265	269	439	400	800	400	700	600	1200	700	200	600	6573
Portuguese	3	5	6	1	14	24	12	9	3	19	15	31	142
Russian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	40	46
Simple English	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Spanish	454	629	100	0	200	0	0	0	100	300	300	200	2283
Swedish	5	2	7	0	2	51	35	60	18	63	1421	2700	4364
Turkish	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
All Wikipedias	1970	10757	4196	3969	5112	4985	4788	7932	13868	40237	10940	10379	119133