Wikipedia:Multilingual statistics/2003

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

Article count, monthly totals[edit]

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 2003	Feb. 1 2003	Mar. 1 2003	Apr. 1 2003	May 1 2003	June 1 2003	July 1 2003	Aug. 1 2003	Sept. 1 2003	Oct. 1 2003	Nov. 1 2003	Dec. 1 2003	Jan. 1 2004
Afrikaans (af)	88	92	94	98	188	236	244	254	277	311	383	583	854
Albanian (sq)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	7
Arabic (ar)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	12	16	22	22	23
Basque (eu)	18	18	18	18	18	19	19	24	31	31	35	37	38
Bosnian (bs)	15	16	58	60	60	61	62	64	65	75	77	77	79
Bulgarian (bg)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	399
Catalan (ca)	17	156	237	460	2200	2500	2700	2900	3200	3600	3800	4300	4944
Chinese (zh)	108	123	131	253	340	455	757	1300	1600	1900	2400	3000	3641
Croatian(hr)	-	-	-	-	1	2	35	36	36	77	238	344	453
Czech (cs)	16	29	32	213	256	369	515	588	746	829	951	978	1103
Danish (da)	635	1000	5700	6000	6500	7000	7600	8100	9000	9600	10000	10000	14584
Dutch (nl)	4200	4800	5300	5700	6300	7600	8600	9800	12000	13000	14000	16000	17880
English (en)	100000	106000	111000	117000	122000	128000	135000	144000	152000	160000	167000	177000	188682
Esperanto (eo)	4500	4800	5700	6300	6700	7000	7300	7600	8100	8700	9400	9900	10448
Estonian (et)	140	164	176	190	263	353	406	427	493	564	816	1000	1288
Finnish (fi)	5	5	76	180	400	627	941	1100	1200	2100	2400	2500	3027
French (fr)	4000	4900	6700	8800	9500	11000	12000	14000	15000	16000	17000	20000	22557
Frisian (fy)	13	16	16	16	16	16	16	48	49	49	77	557	657
Galician (gl)	-	-	-	116	174	174	174	175	201	211	241	323	343
German (de)	9800	12000	14000	15000	17000	19000	22000	25000	28000	31000	34000	38000	43672
Greek (el)	-	-	2	2	3	3	3	5	6	47	61	148	228
Hebrew (he)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	272	447	549	990	1700	2819
Hindi (hi)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	18	64	66	66	66	68
Hungarian (hu)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	43	70	104	162	242
Indonesian (id)	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	1	1	1	1	34	41
Interlingua (ia)	-	-	93	223	390	413	417	663	1400	1400	1500	1600	2494
Italian (it)	539	847	1100	1300	1600	1800	1900	2300	2600	2900	3300	3700	5323
Japanese (ja)	37	72	2300	4100	5200	6400	7000	7900	9200	12000	14000	19000	24089
Korean (ko)	21	25	28	64	89	152	156	156	338	402	471	510	550
Latin (la)	8	11	19	59	244	560	591	595	603	618	626	646	1027
Latvian (lv)	-	-	-	-	-	-	65	68	68	68	69	69	69
Lithuanian (lt)	-	-	1	1	1	3	3	3	3	3	4	29	38
Low Saxon (nds)	-	-	-	-	11	237	254	260	269	270	283	285	293
Malay (ms)	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	2	3	123	213	536	744
Malayalam (ml)	3	3	5	5	6	30	35	35	35	35	36	36	36
Nahuatl (nah)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10	10	10	10	11
Norwegian (no)	490	516	539	544	597	610	621	630	683	689	732	946	1425
Occitan (oc)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	8	8	16	481	487
Polish (pl)	7000	7800	9100	11000	12000	12000	13000	14000	14000	15000	16000	17000	18781
Portuguese (pt)	301	372	426	439	458	556	631	709	920	956	982	982	1189
Romanian (ro)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	48	171	323	1100	1800	3042
Russian (ru)	46	85	111	124	157	191	274	414	535	794	879	974	1231
Serbian (sr)	-	-	-	-	-	-	13	14	14	22	59	110	153
Serbo-Croatian (sh)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	1
Simple English (simple)	2	3	3	26	29	31	34	64	110	162	327	458	754
Slovenian (sl)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	221	281	1200	3200	3500	3506
Spanish (es)	2500	2700	2900	3200	3300	3500	3900	4800	6100	6700	9200	12000	14651
Swedish (sv)	4500	5200	6800	8100	8800	9700	11000	12000	13000	14000	15000	17000	18945
Tamil (ta)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	64
Turkish (tr)	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	20	21	22	32	44
Walloon (wa)	-	-	-	-	-	-	77	255	302	302	318	399	688
Welsh (cy)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	25	40	56	69	190	281
Vietnamese (vi)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	21	62
All Wikipedias	139003	151754	172666	189592	204802	220601	238346	260906	283284	306858	332480	369055	418055

Article count, monthly change[edit]

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[edit]

Language	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December	2003
Afrikaans	4	2	4	90	48	8	10	23	34	72	200	271	766
Albanian	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	6	7
Arabic	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	7	4	6	0	1	23
Basque	0	0	0	0	1	0	5	7	0	4	2	1	20
Bosnian	1	42	2	0	1	1	2	1	10	2	0	2	64
Bulgarian	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	399	399
Catalan	139	81	223	1740	300	200	200	300	400	200	500	644	4927
Chinese	15	8	122	87	115	302	543	300	300	500	600	641	3533
Croatian	-	-	-	1	1	33	1	0	41	161	106	109	453
Czech	13	3	181	43	113	146	73	158	83	122	27	125	1087
Danish	365	4700	300	500	500	600	500	900	600	400	0	4584	13949
Dutch	600	500	400	600	1300	1000	1200	2200	1000	1000	2000	1880	13680
English	6000	5000	6000	5000	6000	7000	9000	8000	8000	7000	10000	11682	88682
Esperanto	300	900	600	400	300	300	300	500	600	700	500	548	5948
Estonian	24	12	14	73	90	53	21	66	71	252	184	288	1148
Finnish	0	71	104	220	227	314	159	100	900	300	100	527	3022
French	900	1800	2100	700	1500	1000	2000	1000	1000	1000	3000	2557	18557
Frisian	3	0	0	0	0	0	32	1	0	28	480	100	644
Galician	-	-	116	58	0	0	1	26	10	30	82	20	343
German	2200	2000	1000	2000	2000	3000	3000	3000	3000	3000	4000	5672	33872
Greek	-	2	0	1	0	0	2	1	41	14	87	80	228
Hebrew	-	-	-	-	-	-	272	175	102	441	710	1119	2819
Hindi	-	-	-	-	-	-	18	46	2	0	0	2	68
Hungarian	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	23	27	34	58	80	242
Indonesian	-	-	-	-	1	0	0	0	0	0	33	7	41
Interlingua	-	93	130	167	23	4	246	737	0	100	100	894	2494
Italian	308	253	200	300	200	100	400	300	300	400	400	1623	4784
Japanese	35	2228	1800	1100	1200	600	900	1300	2800	2000	5000	5089	24052
Korean	4	3	36	25	63	4	0	182	64	69	39	40	529
Latin	3	8	40	185	316	31	4	8	15	8	20	381	1019
Lativian	-	-	-	-	-	65	3	0	0	1	0	0	69
Lithuanian	-	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	25	9	38
Low Saxon	-	-	-	11	226	17	6	9	1	13	2	8	293
Malay	-	-	-	-	1	0	1	1	120	90	323	208	744
Malayalam	0	2	0	1	24	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	33
Nahuatl	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10	0	0	0	1	11
Norwegian	26	23	5	53	13	11	9	53	6	43	214	479	935
Occitan	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	2	0	8	465	6	487
Polish	800	1300	1900	1000	0	1000	1000	0	1000	1000	1000	1781	11781
Portuguese	71	54	13	19	98	75	78	211	36	26	0	207	888
Romanian	-	-	-	-	-	-	48	123	152	777	700	1242	3042
Russian	39	26	13	33	34	83	140	121	259	85	95	257	1185
Serbian	-	-	-	-	-	13	1	0	8	37	51	43	153
Serbo-Croatian	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	0	0	1
Simple English	1	0	23	3	2	3	30	46	52	165	131	296	752
Slovenian	-	-	-	-	-	-	221	60	919	2000	300	6	3506
Spanish	200	200	300	100	200	400	900	1300	600	2500	2800	2651	12151
Swedish	700	1600	1300	700	900	1300	1000	1000	1000	1000	2000	1945	14445
Tamil	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	56	64
Turkish	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	19	1	1	10	12	43
Walloon	-	-	-	-	-	77	178	47	0	16	81	289	688
Welsh	-	-	-	-	-	-	25	15	16	13	121	91	281
Vietnamese	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	20	41	62
All Wikipedias	12386	16212	16629	14710	15299	17145	22060	21478	22974	25222	36575	44416	265103