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While you read this page, [[Wikimedia projects]] develop at an average rate of over [[#Edits|16 edits every second]] performed by editors from all over the world, while receiving almost [[#Page views|10,000 page views]] every second.<ref group="note">Estimate: [[#Edits|517 million edits]] and [[#Page views|329 billion page views]] in 2025 divided by (86,400 sec/day * 365 days).</ref> There are Wikipedias in over 300 different languages and hundreds of sister projects.<ref>[[meta:List of Wikimedia projects by size]]</ref>

The [[English Wikipedia]] receives an average of over 2 edits and more than 4,500 page views every second.<ref group="note">Estimate: [[#Edits|62 million edits]] and [[#Page views|144 billion page views]] in 2025 divided by (86,400 sec/day * 365 days).</ref> As of {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}, the English Wikipedia includes {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles and it averages around [[#Articles|500 new articles]] per day. Around 11 [[Megabyte|MB]] of encyclopedic text is added to the articles daily (4 [[Gigabyte|GB]] in a year).<ref group="note">Estimate: 4,419,658,359 bytes in 2025 added to article namespace divided by 365 days. ([https://en.wikiscan.org/?menu=tables&submenu=diff Wikiscan - Diff])</ref> Since its inception, over 12.4 million users have edited the English Wikipedia at least once.<ref name="wikiscan enwiki" /> The number of users who have made more than 5 edits are 3.7 million (37,167 in the last month).<ref name="wikiscan enwiki" />

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 [[#Tools|tools]] and [[#Datasets|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. 

* [[Special:Statistics]] – automatically generated statistics about the English Wikipedia
* [https://stats.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Statistics] – statistics for all Wikimedia projects, including the English Wikipedia ([[stats:#/en.wikipedia.org|English Wikipedia statistics dashboard]])
* [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1a-UBqsYtJl6gpauJyanx0nyxuPqRvhzJRN817XpkuS8/edit#gid=643792039 Wiki comparison] – annually updated spreadsheet providing  key statistics for all Wikimedia projects, including the English Wikipedia
* [[Wikipedia:Database reports|Database reports]] – index of automatically generated reports about the English Wikipedia ([https://github.com/mzmcbride/database-reports GitHub])

== Summary ==
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As of 2026, there are [[meta:List of Wikimedia projects by size|838 active]] Wikimedia projects of a total of 1032.<ref>[[meta:Which projects are active?]] - Only projects that have 100 articles or more are considered to be active</ref> Of these active projects, [[meta:Wikipedia|331 are Wikipedias]] and [[meta:Wiktionary|169 are Wiktionaries]]. The largest projects are [[Wikimedia Commons]] ({{NUMBEROF|files|commons|N}} files)<ref>[[:commons:Special:Statistics]]</ref> and [[Wikidata]] ({{NUMBEROF|articles|wikidata|N}} items).<ref>[[:d:Special:Statistics]]</ref>

The largest Wikipedia is the {{Wikipedia rank by size/WP|1}} language edition ({{NUMBEROF|articles|{{Wikipedia rank by size|1}}|N}} articles). It is followed by the {{Wikipedia rank by size/WP|2}} ({{NUMBEROF|articles|{{Wikipedia rank by size|2}}|N}} articles) and {{Wikipedia rank by size/WP|3}} ({{NUMBEROF|articles|{{Wikipedia rank by size|3}}|N}} articles) editions. The Cebuano Wikipedia uses [[Lsjbot|bots]] to create most of its articles.

Other less known projects include [[Wikiquote]], [[Wikibooks]], [[Wikinews]], [[Wikisource]], [[Wikivoyage]], and [[Wikispecies]].
* [[Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia|Size of Wikipedia]] – by number of articles, number of words, and gigabytes of data
* [[Wikipedia:Size in volumes|Size of Wikipedia in volumes]] – to see the size of Wikipedia in print encyclopedia volumes
* [[Wikipedia:Size comparisons|Size comparisons]] – comparisons against other encyclopedias and information collections
* {{tlx|NUMBEROF}} – template to display Wikimedia Foundation site stats
{{Wikipedia:Statistics/Statistics|1=Summary table}}

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| valign=top | {{Wikipedia:Statistics/Statistics|1=Comparison of Wikipedias by number of articles}}
| valign=top | {{Wikipedia:Statistics/Statistics|1=Comparison of English-language sister projects by number of edits}}
| valign=top | {{Wikipedia:Statistics/Statistics|1=Largest projects comparison bar}}
|}

== Statistics by namespace ==

Pages are placed in different [[Wikipedia:Namespaces|namespaces]] according to their contents. Encyclopedic pages ([[Wikipedia:What is an article?|articles]], [[Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists|lists]] and [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation|disambiguations]]) are located in namespace 0 (main), [[Help:Files|files]] are in the namespace 6, and [[Wikipedia:Categorization|categories]] are in namespace 14. All namespaces have an associated [[Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines|talk page]] namespace and all of them allow [[Wikipedia:Redirect|redirects]].

As of {{CURRENTYEAR}}, the English Wikipedia has {{NUMBEROF|pages|en.wikipedia|N}} pages. The current text content in all its pages is about 166 [[Gigabyte|GB]] in size.<ref name="wikiscan enwiki" /> When counting all the revisions in histories, the size is 28,593 [[Gigabyte|GB]] (28 [[Terabyte|TB]]).<ref name="wikiscan enwiki" /> All this data is publicly available and can be downloaded from the Wikimedia Downloads site in different compression formats (7z, bz2).<ref>[https://dumps.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Downloads]</ref>

=== Articles ===
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As of {{CURRENTYEAR}}, the English Wikipedia has {{NUMBEROF|articles|en.wikipedia|N}} [[Wikipedia:What is an article?|articles]] which have received 872 million edits from 12.4 million users since the project's inception.<ref name="wikiscan enwiki">[https://en.wikiscan.org/ Wikiscan - English Wikipedia]</ref> The current text content in all its articles is about 63 [[Gigabyte|GB]] in size.<ref>[https://quarry.wmcloud.org/history/5809/971601/942577 Quarry query: English Wikipedia articles size in gigabytes]</ref> The [[Kiwix]] version (an offline reader) of the English Wikipedia including images is around 100 [[Gigabyte|GB]] after applying some optimization and compression.<ref>[https://library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng&category=wikipedia Kiwix Library]</ref>

The median article contains about 300–350 words, or 13 sentences. About half of articles contain four or fewer [[Help:Footnotes|references]].<ref>{{Citation |title=User:BilledMammal/Average articles |date=2024-08-19 |work=Wikipedia |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:BilledMammal/Average_articles&oldid=1241130705 |access-date=2026-05-24 |language=en}}</ref>

As of 2026, the longest article is [[Japanese conjugation (mizenkei base)]] with 787,887 bytes<ref>[[Special:LongPages]]</ref> and the most edited is [[List of WWE personnel]] with over 59,000 edits.<ref>[[Special:MostRevisions]]</ref> There are bigger pages with over 2.5 MB in size<ref>[[Wikipedia:Database reports/Long pages]]</ref> and 2 million edits<ref>[[Wikipedia:Database reports/Pages with the most revisions]]</ref> but those are related to [[Wikipedia:Maintenance|Wikipedia maintenance]].

In the last years, on average around 200,000 articles have been created every year in the English Wikipedia. The number of creations has declined since it peaked in 2006 with over 580,000 new articles created that year.<ref>[https://en.wikiscan.org/?menu=tables&submenu=creation Wikiscan - Creations in English Wikipedia]</ref>

In 2025, 4,419,658,359 bytes of encyclopedic text was added to articles, or around 11 [[Megabyte|MB]] of text every day.<ref>[https://en.wikiscan.org/?menu=tables&submenu=diff Wikiscan - Diff]</ref> An average English book volume of 500 pages and 2,000 characters per page fits in 1 MB. Therefore, Wikipedia editors add 11 book volumes to the encyclopedia every day.

* [[Wikipedia:Modelling Wikipedia's growth|Modelling Wikipedia's growth]] – analysis of the count of articles, attempting to fit mathematical growth models

{{Wikipedia:Statistics/Statistics|1=New articles by year in the English Wikipedia}}

=== Categories ===

As of 2026, the English Wikipedia has 2.6 million [[Wikipedia:Categorization|categories]].<ref name="dbpagecountnm">[[Wikipedia:Database reports/Page count by namespace]]</ref> The page with most categories is [[List of ISO 639-2 codes]] with 405 categories.<ref>[[Special:MostCategories]]</ref> The categories with most pages are related to Wikipedia maintenance.<ref>[[Special:MostLinkedCategories]]</ref>

{{Wikipedia:Statistics/Statistics|1=New categories by year in the English Wikipedia}}

=== Images and files ===
[[File:Geolocated images in Wikimedia Commons 2017-09-20.png|thumb|All geolocated images in [[Wikimedia Commons]] as of 2017]]
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[[Wikimedia Commons]] is the main media repository for Wikimedia projects. As of {{CURRENTYEAR}}, the repository contains {{NUMBEROF|files|commons|N}} free-to-use media [[Help:Files|files]]<ref>[[commons:Special:Statistics]]</ref> or around 924 [[Terabyte|TB]].<ref name="commons mediastats">[[:commons:Special:MediaStatistics]]</ref> The English Wikipedia allows uploading files locally, though they must comply with the non-free content criteria, having {{NUMBEROF|files|en.wikipedia|N}} files to date.<ref>[[Special:MediaStatistics]]</ref>

Besides images (120,651,430 files), content in other formats is also available: audio (4,184,829 files), video (381,644), PDFs (6,199,168) and 3D files (11,151).<ref name="commons mediastats" /> The most linked images are related to Wikipedia maintenance.<ref>[[Special:MostLinkedFiles]]</ref>

Wikimedia Commons has over 421,000 images with more than 50 megapixels.<ref>[[commons:Category:Large images]]</ref> Almost 21,000 files are over 1 GB, the bigger ones (5 GB) are mostly films from the [[silent era]].<ref>[https://quarry.wmcloud.org/history/90030/971662/942636 Quarry: Wikimedia Commons files by size]</ref> The largest image is a [[:File:Vienna-big.tif|20th-century map of Vienna]] (3.94 GB).<ref>[https://quarry.wmcloud.org/history/90031/971672/942646 Quarry: Largest images in Wikimedia Commons]</ref><ref>[[commons:File:Vienna-big.tif]]</ref>

{{Wikipedia:Statistics/Statistics|1=Uploads by year to Wikimedia Commons}}

=== Talk pages ===

As of {{CURRENTYEAR}}, the English Wikipedia has 8.4 million [[Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines|talk pages]] for articles.<ref name="dbpagecountnm" /> The figure is greater than the number of articles mainly because the archival system creates multiple talk pages for some pages when the size is too big.  There are also pages which don't count as articles, including redirects and disambiguation pages.

On average, every year around 2–3 million edits are done by humans to article talk pages, which can be understood as message exchanges during article development.<ref>[https://en.wikiscan.org/?menu=tables&submenu=edit&type=user Wikiscan - Edits by users (humans) to talk pages]</ref>

{{Wikipedia:Statistics/Statistics|1=Article talk page edits by year in the English Wikipedia}}

=== Redirects ===

As of {{CURRENTYEAR}}, the English Wikipedia has 11.8 million [[Wikipedia:Redirect|redirects]] to articles.<ref name="dbpagecountnm" /> On average, every article has almost 2 redirects, though the article with most redirects is [[Hangul]] (the modern writing system for the Korean language) with over 7,000 redirects.<ref>[[Wikipedia:Database reports/Articles with the most redirects]]</ref>

{{Wikipedia:Statistics/Statistics|1=Redirects to articles by year in the English Wikipedia}}

== Statistics by action ==

The most common actions include [[Wikipedia:Editing policy|editing]] articles and [[Wikipedia:Pageview statistics|reading]] them. Among the special actions that requires [[Wikipedia:Administrators|admin rights]] are blocking users, protecting pages and deleting content.

=== Edits ===

In 2025, people from all over the world made 517 million edits to Wikimedia projects.<ref>[https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/all-projects/contributing/edits/normal|bar|2025-01-01~2026-01-01|~total|monthly Wikimedia Statistics - All wikis - 2025]</ref> Wikipedia (in all languages) received 172 million edits<ref>[https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/all-wikipedia-projects/contributing/edits/normal|bar|2025-01-01~2026-01-01|~total|monthly Wikimedia Statistics - All Wikipedias - 2025]</ref> and the English Wikipedia 62 million edits.<ref>[https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org/contributing/edits/normal|bar|2025-01-01~2026-01-01|~total|monthly Wikimedia Statistics - English Wikipedia - 2025]</ref>

In the last years, around 11–13% of edits are [[Wikipedia:Editing on mobile devices|mobile edits]] and 6–10% are done using [[Wikipedia:VisualEditor|VisualEditor]].<ref>[https://en.wikiscan.org/?menu=tables&submenu=tags Wikiscan - Tags]</ref> Roughly, about 4–6% of all edits are [[Wikipedia:Reverting|reverts]].<ref>[https://en.wikiscan.org/?menu=tables&submenu=reverts Wikiscan - Reverts]</ref>

{{Wikipedia:Statistics/Statistics|1=Edits to all pages by year in the English Wikipedia}}

{{Wikipedia:Statistics/Statistics|1=Users edits that are reverts by year in the English Wikipedia}}

Considering all Wikimedia projects, around 16 edits are submitted every second, over a third of them are done by [[Wikipedia:Bots|bots]].

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Project !! Edits in 2025 !! Edits by humans in 2025 !! Edits by bots in 2025
|- style="text-align: right;background-color:lightblue"
| [[English Wikipedia]] || 62 million (1.9 edits/sec) || 51 million (1.6 edits/sec) || 11 million (0.3 edits/sec)
|- style="text-align: right;"
| [[meta:List of Wikipedias|All active Wikipedias]] || 172 million (5.4 edits/sec) || 125 million (3.9 edits/sec) || 47 million (1.4 edits/sec)
|- style="text-align: right;"
| All Wikimedia projects || 517 million (16.3 edits/sec) || 316 million (10.0 edits/sec) || 201 million (6.3 edits/sec) 
|}
Source: [https://stats.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Statistics]

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! colspan=4 | Tools for measuring edits
|-
! Tool !! Scope !! Description !! Status
|-
| [[Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits|List of Wikipedians by number of edits]] || User || 10,000 editors with highest editcounts, updated daily. || {{active}}
|-
| [[Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by article count|List of Wikipedians by article count]] || User || Top 10,000 editors by article creation. || {{active}}
|-
| [[Template:Registered editors by edit count|Registered editors by edit count]] || User || How many registered editors have made a given number of edits. || {{active}}
|-
| [https://wrating.ukrface.org/?le=en&l=en WRating] || User || Evaluates the contribution of Wikipedia contributors to its traffic over the past month. || {{active}}
|-
| [[Wikipedia:Database reports/Pages with the most revisions]] || Page ||  || {{active}}
|-
| [[Special:MostRevisions]] || Page || Similar to the above but only for articles. || {{active}}
|-
| [[Wikipedia:Database reports/Most edited articles last month]] || Page ||  || {{active}}
|-
| [https://quarry.wmcloud.org/query/99869 quarry.wmcloud.org] || Ranking || Most edited pages (including other namespaces) in the past month || {{active}}
|-
| [https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/all-projects/contributing/top-edited-pages/normal stats.wikimedia.org] || Page || Interactive tool || {{active}}
|-
| [https://wiki4trends.oeffentliche-it.de/oefit-data/ wiki4trends] || Ranking || Statistics regarding the development of pageviews and edits over time. Field of interest is public it but the source code is available open source and can be customized. || {{active}}
|-
| [https://page-creation.wmflabs.org/#projects=enwiki/metrics=Daily%20Non-redirect%20Pages%20Created%20in%20the%20Main%20namespace%20(ns%3D0) New articles created per day] || Overall || Can be filtered by user group or namespace || {{active}}
|-
| [[Wikipedia:Time Between Edits|Time between edits]] || Overall || Length of time (measured in days) between each block of 10,000,000 edits made to Wikipedia since January 16, 2001. || {{active}}
|-
| [[Wikipedia:Most frequently edited pages|Most frequently edited pages]] || Page || Inactive since May 2008. || {{site inactive}}
|}

=== Page views ===
{{Shortcut|WP:VIEWSSTATS|WP:MVA}}
====Wikimedia projects====
<gallery mode="packed" heights="150px" style="text-align:left">
Page views of Wikimedia projects (incl. all language versions).png|Page views of Wikimedia projects (incl. all language versions) in April 2026<ref name="page views wikimedia projects">{{Cite web |title=Wikistats - Page views by country |url=https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/all-projects/reading/page-views-by-country |access-date=2026-05-16 |website=stats.wikimedia.org}}</ref>
Page views of Wikimedia projects (incl. all language versions) per capita.svg|Page views of Wikimedia projects (incl. all language versions) per capita in April 2026<ref name="page views wikimedia projects"/><ref name="population"/>
</gallery>
In 2024, Wikimedia projects had 296 billion page views; this figure is similar to the number of stars in the [[Milky Way]]. On average, Wikimedia projects have almost 10,000 page views every second. The most page views for Wikimedia projects come from users in the United States, Japan, Germany and the United Kingdom.<ref>[https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/all-projects Wikimedia Statistics - Monthly overview - All wikis]</ref> The most page views for Wikimedia projects per capita come from the Seychelles, Singapore, Finland and Estonia.<ref name="page views wikimedia projects"/><ref name="population"/>

====English Wikipedia====
[[File:Pageviews of Wikipedia over time.png|thumb|The total page views of the English Wikipedia were fairly constant from 2015 to 2026<ref>{{Cite web |title=Siteviews Analysis |url=https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/siteviews/?platform=all-access&source=pageviews&agent=user&start=2015-07-01&end=2026-05-14&sites=en.wikipedia.org |access-date=2026-05-15 |website=pageviews.wmcloud.org}}</ref>]]
[[File:Wikipedia page views by device type.webp|thumb|Page views of the English Wikipedia by platform<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wikistats - Statistics For Wikimedia Projects |url=https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org/reading/total-page-views/normal%7Cline%7C2016-01-01~2026-03-01%7Caccess~desktop*mobile-app*mobile-web+(agent)~user%7Cmonthly |access-date=2026-05-15 |website=stats.wikimedia.org}}</ref>]]

Particularly, the English Wikipedia had 130 billion page views in 2024. As of April 2026, the most views for the English Wikipedia come from the United States, the United Kingdom, India and Canada.<ref>[https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org Wikimedia Statistics - Monthly overview (en.wikipedia.org)]</ref> The most page views per capita come from Ireland, the Isle of Man and the United Kingdom. The most page views per capita from a non-English speaking country come from Vatican City, Iceland and Finland.<ref name="page views wikipedia"/><ref name="population"/>

<gallery mode="packed" heights="150px" style="text-align:left">
Page views of the English Wikipedia by country.png|Page views of the English Wikipedia by country (March 2026)<ref name="page views wikipedia">{{Cite web |title=Wikistats - Page views by country |url=https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org/contributing/page-views-by-country |access-date=2026-05-01 |website=stats.wikimedia.org}}</ref>
Number of page views of the English Wikipedia per capita.svg|Page views of the English Wikipedia per capita (April 2026)<ref name="page views wikipedia"/><ref name="population"/>
</gallery>

{| class="wikitable"
|+Yearly most viewed articles of the English Wikipedia<ref>{{Cite web |title=Topviews Analysis |url=https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/topviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&date=2017&excludes= |access-date=2026-04-22 |website=pageviews.wmcloud.org}}</ref>
!Year
!#1
!#2
!#3
!#4
!#5
|-
|2017
|[[Deaths in 2017]]
|[[Darth Vader]]
|[[Donald Trump]]
|[[XXX]]
|[[Elizabeth II]]
|-
|2018
|[[Deaths in 2018]]
|[[2018 FIFA World Cup]]
|[[Avengers: Infinity War]]
|[[Louis Tomlinson]]
|[[Darth Vader]]
|-
|2019
|[[Avengers: Endgame]]
|[[Deaths in 2019]]
|[[Wikipedia]]
|[[Ted Bundy]]
|[[Freddie Mercury]]
|-
|2020
|[[Donald Trump]]
|[[Deaths in 2020]]
|[[2019–20 coronavirus pandemic]]
|[[Kamala Harris]]
|[[Joe Biden]]
|-
|2021
|[[Deaths in 2021]]
|[[Elon Musk]]
|[[Elizabeth II]]
|[[Squid Game]]
|[[YouTube]]
|-
|2022
|[[Jeffrey Dahmer]]
|[[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine]]
|[[Deaths in 2022]]
|[[2022 FIFA World Cup]]
|[[Elizabeth II]]
|-
|2023
|[[ChatGPT]]
|[[Deaths in 2023]]
|[[2023 Cricket World Cup]]
|[[Indian Premier League]]
|[[Oppenheimer (film)]]
|-
|2024
|[[Deaths in 2024]]
|[[YouTube]]
|[[2024 United States presidential election]]
|[[Kamala Harris]]
|[[Donald Trump]]
|-
|2025
|[[Deaths in 2025]]
|[[Charlie Kirk]]
|[[ChatGPT]]
|[[Ed Gein]]
|[[Donald Trump]]
|}

The most viewed articles of a year reflect current events. It is shaped by the geographical precedence of each Wikipedia visitors and their interests. For example, in Spanish Wikipedia none of the ten most viewed articles in 2024 were about the United States elections, with the Spanish-language article on Donald Trump being in the 31st position and Kamala Harris in the 68th.<ref>[https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/topviews/?project=es.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&date=2024&excludes= Topviews Analysis (es.wikipedia.org)]</ref>

The 10 [[Wikipedia:Popular_pages#Top-100_list|most viewed articles]] between 2007 and 2022 were [[United States]], [[Donald Trump]], [[Elizabeth II]], [[India]], [[Barack Obama]], [[Cristiano Ronaldo]], [[World War II]], [[United Kingdom]], [[Michael Jackson]] and [[Elon Musk]].{{efn|excluding articles with a large percentage of unintentional views and articles that logged a large number of automated views}}

[[File:Daily_page_views_of_English_Wikipedia_articles_in_percentiles.png|thumb|A tiny share of articles gets many page views<ref>{{Cite web |title=Massviews Analysis |url=https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/massviews/ |access-date=2026-05-19 |website=pageviews.wmcloud.org|via=Quarry query 105469. SQL code on quarry.wmcloud.org}}</ref>]]

{| class="wikitable"
!Daily page views<ref name="massviews">{{Cite web |title=Massviews Analysis |url=https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/massviews/ |access-date=2026-05-20 |website=pageviews.wmcloud.org|via=Quarry query 105489. SQL code on quarry.wmcloud.org. Definition of article is here namespace 0 pages excluding article redirects, deleted articles, disambiguation pages, Wikispecies redirects and redirects for discussion.}}</ref>
!1
!2.2
!10
!35
!100
!405
!1,000
!3,000
|-
|Share of articles that have at least ... daily page views
|70 %
|50%
|23 % 
|10 %
|4.5 %
|1 %
|0.4 %
|0.1 %
|}

The least viewed articles mostly cover these topics: a species, a small locality, a person's name, a river or stream, or an athlete.<ref name="massviews"/>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Tools for page views
|-
! Tool
! Scope
! class="unsortable" | Description
! Status
|-
| [https://stats.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Stats] || Overall || For viewing per-project statistics || {{active}}
|-
| [[toolforge:siteviews]] || Overall || Siteviews Analysis (for viewing the total number of pageviews to a project, or the number of unique devices) || {{active}}
|-
| [[Wikipedia:Article traffic jumps|Article traffic jumps]] || Overall || A place to document unusual jumps in article traffic. || {{active}}
|-
| [[toolforge:topviews]] || Ranking || Topviews Analysis (for viewing the most viewed pages of a project) || {{active}}
|-
| [https://www.wikishark.com/ WikiShark] || Ranking || Article traffic statistics and comparisons between articles || {{active}}
|-
| [http://wikirank.di.unimi.it The Open Wikipedia Ranking] || Ranking || Most viewed, can be filtered by category || {{active}}
|-
| [[Wikipedia:Top 25 Report]] || Ranking || Top 25 most popular articles weekly chart with human commentary, republished as ''[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost|The Signpost]]'' Traffic Report || {{active}}
|-
| [https://wiki4trends.oeffentliche-it.de/oefit-data/ wiki4trends] || Ranking || Statistics regarding the development of pageviews and edits over time. Field of interest is public it but the source code is available open source and can be customized. || {{active}}
|-
| [[Wikipedia:Did you know/Statistics|Did you know/Statistics]] || Ranking || || {{active}}
|-
| [[:Category:Lists of popular pages by WikiProject]] || By topic
| These projects use pageview data to focus article improvement efforts on popular but poor quality articles

[[Wikipedia:Lists of popular pages by WikiProject]] - similar manually maintained list

[[User:Community Tech bot/Popular pages]] - list of such pages configured for this bot
| {{active}}
|-
| [https://pageviews.toolforge.org/ Pageviews Analysis] || By topic
| Article traffic statistics, also allowing comparisons between articles ([[meta:Pageviews Analysis|documentation]], [[Wikipedia:Pageview statistics|local documenation]], [https://pageviews.toolforge.org/faq/ FAQ], [[wikitech:Analytics/AQS/Pageviews API documentation]])

[[User:Dsimic/Traffic stats calculation]]{{snd}} a PHP program that calculates monthly stats for a list of articles, using the Pageviews API
| {{active}}
|-
| [[toolforge:langviews]] || By page || Langviews Analysis (for viewing a page's statistics across all languages) || {{active}}
|-
| [https://glamtools.toolforge.org/treeviews/ TreeViews] || By page || Monthly view statistics for category trees || {{active}}
|-
| [https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/massviews/ Massviews Analysis] || By page || Accepts lists of articles or category names || {{active}}
|-
| [[Wikipedia:Popular pages]] || Ranking || Top-100 list of most viewed pages for 2007–2023 || {{site inactive}}
|-
| [[User:HostBot/Social media traffic report]] || Other || retired May 2020 || {{site inactive}}
|-
| [http://wikitop.alwaysdata.net Wikitop] || Other || top 30 most popular articles by categories, with user comments on traffic jumps || {{site inactive}}
|-
| [[User:West.andrew.g/Popular pages]] || Other
| weekly 5,000 most popular articles based on raw data - inactive since February 7, 2020.

[[User:West.andrew.g/2013 popular pages|Popular pages by Andrew West for 2013]], [[User:West.andrew.g/2014 Popular pages|2014]], [[User:West.andrew.g/2015 Popular pages|2015]], [[User:West.andrew.g/2016 Popular pages|2016]], [[User:West.andrew.g/2017 Popular pages|2017]], [[User:West.andrew.g/2018 Popular pages|2018]] and [[User:West.andrew.g/2019 Popular pages|2019]].
| {{site inactive}}
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| top 10 today/this week/this month, and trends (also links for other-language Wikipedia) - not updated since October, 2017

Summaries for each language Wikipedia for: [https://wikitrends.toolforge.org/2012.html 2012], [https://wikitrends.toolforge.org/2013.html 2013], [https://wikitrends.toolforge.org/2014.html 2014], [https://wikitrends.toolforge.org/2015.html 2015]
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=== Blocks ===

[[File:Blocked users on the English Wikipedia.png|thumb|Blocked users on the English Wikipedia<ref>[https://en.wikiscan.org/?menu=tables&submenu=blocks&target=user Wikiscan - Blocked users]</ref>]]

Between 2021 and 2024, [[User:ST47ProxyBot|ST47ProxyBot]] blocked millions of [[Wikipedia:Open proxies|open proxies]].<ref>[https://en.wikiscan.org/user/ST47ProxyBot Wikiscan - ST47ProxyBot]</ref>

{{Wikipedia:Statistics/Statistics|1=Blocks by year in the English Wikipedia}}

=== Protections ===

On average, in the last years around 15–20 thousand protections to articles are done annually.<ref name="wikiscan protections">[https://en.wikiscan.org/?menu=tables&submenu=protection&ns=0 Wikiscan - Protections in namespace 0]</ref> From the beginning of the English Wikipedia, articles have received over 439,000 protections.<ref name="wikiscan protections" /> The second and third most protected namespaces are templates (57,000 protections) and user talk pages (48,000 protections).<ref name="wikiscan protections" />

{{Wikipedia:Statistics/Statistics|1=Protections by year in the English Wikipedia}}

=== Deletions ===

In the past several years there has been a decline in mainspace deletions, probably a result of [[Wikipedia:Autoconfirmed article creation trial]] in 2017, which restricted article creation to autoconfirmed users.

The graph below shows all deletions in the article namespace, including redirects.<ref>[https://en.wikiscan.org/?menu=tables&submenu=logs&log=delete Wikiscan - Deletions]</ref>


{{Wikipedia:Statistics/Statistics|1=Article deletions by year in the English Wikipedia}}

=== New page review ===
{{See also|WP:New pages patrol}}
{{NPP dashboard}}

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== Quality ==

=== Featured content ===
{{See also|WP:Featured list statistics}}
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As of 2026, [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|featured articles]] comprise 6,879 out of a total of 7.1 million articles on the English Wikipedia (about 0.1% or one out of every 1,030 articles). There are 4,758 [[Wikipedia:Featured lists|featured lists]] and 8,642 [[Wikipedia:Featured pictures|featured pictures]] too.

{{See also|WP:Good article statistics}}
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As of 2026, about a third of articles are marked as [[Wikipedia:Stub|stubs]].<ref>{{Citation |title=Wikipedia:Stub |date=2026-05-04 |work=Wikipedia |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Stub&oldid=1352476040 |access-date=2026-05-13 |language=en}}</ref>

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{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Statistics}}

===Vital articles ===
{{See also|WP:Vital articles}}

A vital article covers a subject that the Wikipedia community has decided most deserves a high-quality article in the encyclopedia. As of 2026, the level 1 vital articles are [[The arts]], [[Earth]], [[Human]], [[Human history]], [[Life]], [[Mathematics]], [[Philosophy]], [[Science]], [[Society]] and [[Technology]].

{{Excerpt|Wikipedia:Vital articles|Vital articles in Wikipedia|only=table}}

=== Citations ===

{{See also|WP:WikiProject Unreferenced articles}}

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<center>
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Number of articles containing a citation template as of May 2026<ref>{{Cite web |title=Link Count |url=https://linkcount.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org |access-date=6 May 2026 |website=linkcount.toolforge.org}}</ref>
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|align=center|8.0 %
|{{Citation needed|date=May 2026}}
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|banner
| align="center" |426,000
|align=center|5.9 %
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|[[Template:Unreferenced|Unreferenced article]]
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|align=center|1.3 %
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|[[Template:Unreferenced section|Unreferenced section]]
|banner
|align=center|42,000
|align=center|0.6 %
|This section does not cite any sources.
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|[[Template:Better source needed|Better source needed]]
|inline
|align=center|26,000
|align=center|0.4 %
|{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable ([[WP:NOTRS]]).|date=May 2026}}
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|[[Template:More citations needed section|More citations needed section]]
|banner
|align=center|20,000
|align=center|0.3 %
|This section needs additional citations for verification.
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|[[Template:Failed verification|Failed verification]]
|inline
|align=center|18,000
|align=center|0.3 %
|{{Failed verification|date=May 2026}}
|-
|[[Template:Dubious|Dubious]]
|inline
|align=center|8,500
|align=center|0.1 %
|{{Dubious|date=May 2026}}
|-
|[[Template:No reliable sources|No reliable sources]]
|banner
|align=center|53
|align=center|0.0007 %
|This article does not cite any reliable sources.
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=== Biases ===
{| align=right
| {{Wikipedia:Statistics/Statistics|1=Gender gap in biographies in the English Wikipedia}}
|}
[[Gender bias on Wikipedia|Gender bias]] includes various gender-related disparities on Wikipedia, particularly the overrepresentation of men among both volunteer contributors and article subjects.

As of 2026, the English Wikipedia has around 417,000 encyclopedic biographies about women, while having over 1.6 million about men.<ref name="humaniki" />

=== Vandalism ===
* [https://wmcharts.toolforge.org/wmchart0004.php This page] shows the number of mainspace articles deleted each day.
* Statistics about Articles for Deletion discussions can be found at [[User:JPxG/Oracle]].
* 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]].
* An outdated list of revision deletion statistics [[Wikipedia:Revision deletion/Statistics|can be found here]].
* A (currently broken) page that showed [https://wmcharts.toolforge.org/wmchart0008.php reverts over recent days] using counter-vandalism tools ([[User:ClueBot NG|ClueBot NG]], [[WP:Huggle|Huggle]], [[WP:STiki|STiki]]) and by other means.
* As of 2023, [[quarry:query/77485|about 162,000 unique registered editors]] and 85,000 unique IP addresses have ever edited an AFD page (usually to comment).  This represents 1 out of every 85 successful [[Template:Registered editors by edit count|registered editors]].

=== Wikiprojects ===

[[Wikipedia:WikiProject|Wikiprojects]] (not to be confused with Wikimedia projects) are a group of contributors who want to work together as a team to improve a certain part of Wikipedia. The English Wikipedia has over 2,000 Wikiprojects, about 1,000 of which are monitored by 30–2,000 editors, all with varying levels of activity.<ref>[[Wikipedia:Database reports/WikiProject watchers]]</ref>

As of 2026, the most active wikiproject (non-related to Wikipedia maintenance) by number of changes to all its pages in the last 365 days is [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red|Women in Red]].<ref>[[Wikipedia:Database reports/WikiProjects by changes]]</ref>

===Backlog===
{{See also|WP:Backlog}}
As of May 2026, there are:
* 410,066 [[:Category:Articles with dead external links|articles with dead external links]]
* 119,782 [[:Category:BLP articles lacking sources|biographical articles about living persons needing more references]]
* 22,876 [[:Category:Articles with a promotional tone|articles with a promotional tone]]
* 13,293 [[:Category:Wikipedia articles needing factual verification|articles needing factual verification]]
* 5,848 [[:Category:Pages with broken reference names|pages that need a references clean up]]
* 2,845 [[:Category:Biography articles without blp parameter|biographies without "blp" parameter]]
* 1,329 [[:Category:Articles needing expert attention|articles needing expert attention]]
* 885 [[Wikipedia:Good article nominations|unreviewed good article nominations]]
* 885 [[:Category:Self-contradictory articles|self-contradictory articles]]
* 400 [[:Category:Wikipedia files with disputed copyright information|Wikipedia files with disputed copyright information]]

== Users ==
{{See also|WP:Wikipedians}}

[[File:WMF Strategic Plan Survey.svg|thumb|Demographics of contributors to Wikipedia<ref>"Wikipedia Survey - First Results", UNU-MERIT, April 2009</ref>]]
[[File:Number of new registered users on the English Wikipedia.png|thumb|Number of new registered users on the English Wikipedia<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wikistats - Number of editors |url=https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org/contributing/new-registered-users |access-date=2026-04-22 |website=stats.wikimedia.org}}</ref>]]

Users who contribute to Wikipedia by editing its pages are [[Wikipedia:Wikipedians|Wikipedians]], unlike [[Wikipedia:Reader|readers]] who simply read the articles. The term "active editor" means registered, non-bot editors with five or more edits in a given month, including on redirect pages.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Research:Wikistats metrics/Active editors - Meta-Wiki |url=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikistats_metrics/Active_editors |access-date=2026-04-22 |website=meta.wikimedia.org |language=en}}</ref>

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Number of editors of the English Wikipedia.png|Number of editors on the English Wikipedia<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wikistats - Number of editors |url=https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org/contributing/editors |access-date=2026-04-22 |website=stats.wikimedia.org}}</ref>
Number of active editors of the English Wikipedia.png|Number of active editors on the English Wikipedia<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wikistats - Number of active editors |url=https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org/contributing/active-editors |access-date=2026-04-22 |website=stats.wikimedia.org}}</ref>
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The most active editors are in the United States. The most active editors per capita are in Ireland, Iceland and United Kingdom.{{Efn|name="area"|among all territorial states}} The most active editors per capita in a non-English speaking country are in Iceland, Estonia and Cyprus.{{Efn|name="area"}}<ref name="active editors by country"/><ref name="population"/>

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Active editors of the English Wikipedia by country.png|Number of active editors on the English Wikipedia by country<ref name="active editors by country">{{Cite web |title=Wikistats - Active editors by country |url=https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org/contributing/active-editors-by-country |access-date=2026-04-22 |website=stats.wikimedia.org}}</ref>
Number of active editors on the English Wikipedia per capita.svg|Number of active editors on the English Wikipedia per 1 million inhabitants<ref name="active editors by country"/><ref name="population">{{Cite web |title=Population by Country (2026) |url=https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/ |access-date=2026-05-13 |website=Worldometer |language=en}}</ref>
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As of 2026, over 12.4 million users have edited the English Wikipedia at least once.<ref name="wikiscan enwiki" /> The number of users with more than 5 edits are 3.7 million (37,167 in the last month).<ref name="wikiscan enwiki" />

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WP April 2011, Editor Survey, Reasons for starting to contribute.png|Reasons for starting to contribute<ref name="survey">April 2011 Editor Survey</ref>
WP April 2011, Editor Survey, reasons for continuing to contribute.png|Reasons for continuing to contribute<ref name="survey"/>
WP April 2011, Editor Survey, Negative feedback loops don't work.png|Reasons that discourage contributing on Wikipedia<ref name="survey"/>
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== Visualization tools ==

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!scope="row"| [https://quarry.wmcloud.org/ Quarry]
| Databases
| 
| Query Wikimedia projects databases.
| 
|{{active}}
|-
!scope="row"| [https://github.com/halfak/mediawiki-utilities mediawiki-utilities]
| Data processing
| [https://github.com/halfak/mediawiki-utilities GitHub]
| A set of utilities for accessing and processing MediaWiki data, including XML dumps
| 
|{{active}}
|-
!scope="row"| [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot pywikibot]
| Bots
| [https://github.com/wikimedia/pywikibot GitHub]
| Python library and collection of tools that automate work on MediaWiki sites.
| 
|{{active}}
|-
!scope="row"| [https://www.wikishark.com WikiShark]
| Page views
| 
| WikiShark enables the viewing and comparison of pageview traffic data from the years 2008–present. The data is updated hourly.
| [[File:Wikishark.jpg|150px|WikiShark is an online tool which enables the viewing and comparison of Wikipedia traffic data]]
|{{active}}
|-
!scope="row"| [http://listen.hatnote.com/ Listen to Wikipedia]
| Edits
| [https://github.com/hatnote/listen-to-wikipedia GitHub]
| Visual and audio illustration of live editing activity on Wikipedia.
| [[File:Listen to Wikipedia - 2014-06-26.png|150px|Listen to Wikipedia]]
|{{active}}
|-
!scope="row"| [https://pageviews.toolforge.org/ Pageviews Analysis]
| Page views
| [https://github.com/MusikAnimal/pageviews GitHub]
| Page views statistics for several Wikipedia languages. You can select by month and the last 10, 20, 30, 60 or 90 days.
| [[File:Pageviews2.0-screenshot.png|150px|Page views statistics for an article]]
|{{active}}
|-
! scope="row" | [https://wiki4trends.oeffentliche-it.de/oefit-data/ wiki4trends]
| Edits<br />Page views, edits, content, links, creation date, categories
| [https://gitlab.fokus.fraunhofer.de/oefit-werkstatt/wiki4trends/ GitLab]
| Numbers and graphs based upon different metrics. Updated monthly. Field of interest is public it but the source code is available open source and can be customized.
|
|{{active}}
|-
![https://analytics.wikimedia.org/ analytics.wikimedia.org] 
|site views, user agents
|
|The website provides:
* [https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/ User Agent Breakdowns] grouping results by operating system and browser
* [https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/vital-signs/ vital-signs] total views for different Wikipedia sites
|
|{{active}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[metawiki:Wikipedia_Diversity_Observatory|wikipedia diversity observatory]]
|Content Diversity
|[[github:marcmiquel/WDO|GitHub]]
|[https://wdo.wmflabs.org 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.
|[[File:Wikipedia Diversity Observatory.png|150x150px|The 1 billionth edit took place on April 16, 2010]]
|style="background:yellow;"|Historical
|-
! scope="row" | [[stats:EN/Sitemap.htm|Wikistats1]]
| Edits
|
| [[User:Erik Zachte|Erik Zachte]]'s statistics for all projects and all languages. Historical information captured monthly until 31 January 2019. Replaced by [[stats:v2|Wikistats2]].
| [[File:Wikipedia Statistics - 2014-06-26.png|150px|Wikipedia statistics]]
|style="background:yellow;"|Historical
|-
! scope="row" | [https://wlm-stats.toolforge.org/ wlm-stats]
| GLAM
| [[github:emijrp/wlm-stats|GitHub]]
| Statistics and graphs about the [[commons:Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments|Wiki Loves Monuments]] photograph contest. Historical information captured until September 2018. It offers metadata files to create your own statistics.
| [[File:Wiki Loves Monuments statistics.png|150px|Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 stats]]
|style="background:yellow;"|Historical
|-
! scope="row" | [http://en.wikichecker.com/ WikiChecker]
| Edits
|
| Actuality of Wikipedia based on last edits, ranking by users and pages. Edit-war detector and more.
| [[File:Mikemoral-time stats.jpg|150px|User edits by day of week and hour]]
|style="background:#ffc7c7;"|Broken
|-
! scope="row" | [[stats:v2|Wikistats2]]
| Edits<br />Page views
| [https://github.com/wikimedia/analytics-wikistats2 GitHub]
| Numbers and graphs for several core metrics, updated monthly with data and newer features added quarterly.
|
|style="background:#ffc7c7;"|Broken
|-
! scope="row" | [https://wikipulse.herokuapp.com/ wikipulse]
| Edits
| [https://github.com/edsu/wikipulse 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.
| [[File:Wikipulse - 2014-06-26.png|150px|Wikipulse]]
|style="background:#ffc7c7;"|Broken
|-
! scope="row" | [https://wmcharts.toolforge.org/ wmcharts]
| Edits
| [https://github.com/emijrp/wmcharts GitHub]
| A collection of charts about Wikimedia projects, including activity on recent changes, new pages, deletions, blocks, protections, file uploads, reverts and more.
| [[File:2013-09-06 wikimedia gendergap.png|150px|Gender gap statistics]]
|style="background:#ffc7c7;"|Broken
|-
! scope="row" | [https://wmcounter.toolforge.org/ wmcounter]
| Edits
| [[github:emijrp/wmcounter|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.
| [[File:Wikimedia projects edits counter 2010-04-16.png|150px|The 1 billionth edit took place on April 16, 2010]]
|style="background:#ffc7c7;"|Broken
|}
{{Commonscat|Wikimedia page view statistics}}
{{clear}}

== Datasets ==
{{Main|Wikipedia:Pageview statistics}}

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

* [[Wikipedia:Database download]]
* [[meta:Research:Data]] Overview over various data sources for analyzing Wikipedia, including [[meta:Research:page view|page view]] numbers

==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:
* 2013 September – [[Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of recent edits|List of Wikipedians by number of recent edits]] – covers 2004–2013.
* 2010 May – [[Wikipedia:Awareness statistics|Awareness statistics]] – tracking growth in public awareness
* 2010 January – [[meta:User:Stu/comScore_data_on_Wikimedia|comScore audience measurement data]] – analysis of data donated by one of the third-party measurement services
* 2009 September – <u>THEwikiStics</u>: [http://wikistics.falsikon.de/latest/wikipedia/en/ Page Hits top 1000+] <sup>[http://wikistics.falsikon.de/long/wikipedia/en/ long-term]</sup><small> (compare [http://wikistics.falsikon.de/latest/ traffic] | [http://wikistics.falsikon.de/latest/searches.htm searches])</small> | [http://wikistics.falsikon.de/latest/wikipedia/en/searchTerms.htm Logged search terms] | [[Wikipedia:Popular pages|popular last hour]] | [[Wikipedia:Most missed articles|Most missed articles]]
* 2009 June – [[Wikipedia:Vandalism statistics]]
* 2009 April – [[User:Bryan/List of users by pages created]]
* 2008 October – [[Wikipedia:Multilingual statistics|Multilingual statistics]] – monthly details of total article count, and analysis of the monthly rate of article growth, for each version of Wikipedia.
* 2008 May – [[Wikipedia:Most frequently edited pages|Most frequently edited pages]] – Updated based on data as of 23 May 2008.
* 2007 June – [http://leuksman.com/log/2007/06/07/wikimedia-page-views/ Wikimedia page views (Referrers)] "not very scientific, but some might find it interesting"
* 2006 September – [[Wikipedia:Articles which are number one for one word Google searches|Articles which are number 1 for one-word Google searches]]
* 2006 July – [[Wikipedia:WikiProject creation trends|WikiProject creation and attrition trends]]
* 2006 March – [[User:Dantheox/Stub percentages|Stub percentages]], information on stubs as a percentage of total articles
* 2006 January – [[Wikipedia:Most Referenced Articles|Most referenced articles]], a list of the articles that are linked to by the greatest number of other articles
* 2006 January – [[Wikipedia:Search engine statistics|Search engine statistics]]
* 2005 October – [[Wikipedia:Words per article]]
* 2005 July – [http://www.qwikly.com/WikiPulse.html 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 [http://www.qwikly.com/WikiPulse.rss rss feed]{{dead link}}, and instructions on how to read some of the more interesting graphs.
* 2004 February/October – [[Wikipedia:Browsers|Web browsers used to access Wikipedia]]
* 2004 August – [[Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by most recent edit|List of Wikipedians by most recent edit]] – listed based on number of articles to which they had made the most recent edit
* 2004 April – [http://wikimedia.org/stats/en.wikipedia.org/url_200404.html As below, but updated] (now gone){{dead link}}
* 2004 April – [[Wikipedia:Traffic|Traffic]] – an old system for measuring traffic
* 2004 March – A whole list of accessed Wikipedia pages: [http://wikimedia.org/stats/en.wikipedia.org/url_200403.html (as of 23 March 2004: 38&nbsp;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 – [[m:Pages from English Wikipedia with more than 1000 hits in Feb 2004/Wikipedia namespace|Pages from the English Wikipedia with more than 1000 hits and Wikipedia namespace]]
* 2004 February – [[m:Pages from English Wikipedia with more than 1000 hits in Feb 2004|Pages from the English Wikipedia with more than 1000 hits]]
* 2003 March – [[Wikipedia:What Google liked|List of articles frequently visited through Google]]

==Archived analysis==
* [[Wikipedia:Does Wikipedia traffic obey Zipf's law?|Does Wikipedia traffic obey Zipf's law?]] – as of September 2006, the answer appears to be "yes, approximately".
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121029081921/http://www.online-utility.org/wikipedia/top_500_websites_wikipedia.jsp Top 500 websites by number of inbound links from Wikipedia (archived 2012)] – 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.
* [[Wikipedia:Editing frequency|Editing frequency]] – Statistics on users' editing activity, monthly from January 2001 through September 2008.
* [http://www.globule.org/publi/WWADH_comnet2009.html Wikipedia Workload Analysis for Decentralized Hosting] – July 2009 analysis of a sample of Wikipedia's traffic over a 107-day period.

==See also==
* [[m:Wikipedia milestones|meta.wikimedia/Milestones for Wikimedia projects]]
* [[m:Statistics|meta.wikimedia/Statistics page for Wikimedia]]
* [[m:Wikipedia article depth|meta.wikimedia/Wikipedia article depth]]
* [[Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia]]
* [[d:User:Emijrp/All Human Knowledge|User essay/All Human Knowledge]]
* [[User:ChaTo/Temporal Evolution of the Wikigraph|User essay/Temporal Analysis of the Wikigraph]] – Technical Report, 2006.
* [[Wikipedia:Article traffic jumps]]
* [[Wikipedia:Pools]]
* [[Wikipedia:Statistics Department]] – an inactive WikiProject.
* [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia records]]
* [[History of Wikipedia#Timeline|Wikipedia's timeline]]

==Notes==
{{notelist}}
{{Reflist|group=note}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
{{Commons category|English Wikipedia statistics}}
* [https://stats.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Statistics]
* [http://infodisiac.com Erik Zachte's site]
* [[mw:Analytics|Wikimedia Foundation analytics team]] pages on MediaWiki.org, with e.g. [[mw:Analytics/Metric definitions|definitions]] of some common metrics
* [http://vs.aka-online.de/cgi-bin/wppagehiststat.pl Wikipedia Page History Statistics]
* [http://www.wikishark.com/ Wikishark Wikipedia]  Includes pageviews for all articles in all languages on Wikipedia
* [http://wikipedia-stats.conus.info/ A list of Wikipedia articles created last month/week/day with most users contributing to article within the same period.]

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