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This Wikipedia:Statistics page measures the size of the English-language edition of Wikipedia; mostly page and article count. There are currently 1,723,677 articles in the English Wikipedia.
This page is now mostly replaced by the new Wikipedia statistics summary, which is auto-generated from the database dumps, and gives a much wider range of statistics across all the multilingual Wikipedias. However, this page is still intermittently maintained for historical continuity, and as an alternative source as a sanity-check on the Wikistats data analysis.
Most of the earlier entries were extracted from Wikipedia: Announcements. Later entries are taken from observations of the new software's built-in article count features.
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[edit] Wikipedia growth plot
Plot of article growth in English Wikipedia based on statistics from this page. The growth in articles has been approximately 100% per year since 2003.
[edit] See also
[edit] How its measured
A few notes on features of the graph:
- The start of the project showed a slow rise, which slowly increased in speed with time;
- The big slowdown in the rate of article creation in June 2002 - July 2002 was caused by major server performance problems, remedied by extensive work on the software;
- The sudden jump in article count in October 2002 is due to roughly 30,000 stub articles on U.S. towns and cities generated from a database being added by an auto-posting robot: it is controversial as to whether these are "real" encyclopedia articles or merely as yet only "stub".
See Wikipedia:Modelling Wikipedia's growth for more on this.
[edit] Chronology of software versions
- Phase I UseMod Wiki-based software: January 10, 2001 - January 25, 2002
- Phase II PHP-based software: January 25, 2002 - July 20, 2002
- Phase III PHP-based software: July 20, 2002 - present
This data set notes the fact that these figures are drawn from multiple data sources and different estimates (see the key below for details), and presents them as a spreadsheet-ready table for graphing. The original data sets are archived: see the links below. Note also that the figures are sampled at random times of day.
[edit] Comparisons with other Wikipedias
The English edition remains the largest Wikipedia, over twice as large than the second largest edition. Many other editions shared the quasi-exponential growth of the English edition, though lagging a year or two behind. As these other Wikipedias have grown the percentage of articles in English has been steadily decreasing, though article creation has been increasing.
Codes: en - English; de - German; fr - French; jp - Japanese; pl - Polish; nl - Dutch; it - Italian; es - Spanish; sv - Swedish; pt - Portuguese
[edit] The data set
Key to the data below:
- approx: this figure is an approximation
- lowerbound indicates that there were at least this many pages
- mpac3.1: main page article count from the Phase III software since May 25, 2003: article namespace, not redirects, containing at least one internal wiki link
- mpacIII: main page article count from the Phase III software up to May 22, 2003: article namespace, comma, not redirect
- mpacII: main page article count from the Phase II software
- spII: stats page article count from the Phase II software
- all: total of all pages of any sort
- commapp: pages which include a comma, a crude way of finding "real" articles
- conscnt: "conservative count" taken by removing the count of various types of non-article from the comma page count
- MF: Malcolm Farmer
- LMS: Larry Sanger
- WA: Wikipedia:Announcements
Now extended and annotated with (somewhat gnomic) source information. Note that sampling times are only recorded to the day given by the user recording the entry, and that there is no clear time-zone information for that day.
Note: The current mpac3.1 article count for the English-language Wikipedia is 1,723,677 articles
2007-03-07, 1674588, mpac3.1 2007-02-14, 1638583, mpac3.1 2007-02-08, 1626802, mpac3.1 2007-01-24, 1598645, mpac3.1 2006-12-19, 1539908, mpac3.1 2006-11-08, 1473418, mpac3.1 2006-10-21, 1444717, mpac3.1 2006-10-05, 1418517, mpac3.1 2006-09-22, 1396727, mpac3.1 2006-08-26, 1344771, mpac3.1 2006-08-15, 1317963, mpac3.1 2006-07-04, 1234741, mpac3.1 2006-06-05, 1173156, mpac3.1 2006-05-12, 1129680, mpac3.1 2006-03-24, 1040919, mpac3.1 2006-03-17, 1027914, mpac3.1 2006-02-27, 995933, mpac3.1 2006-02-14, 971518, mpac3.1 2006-01-30, 945642, mpac3.1 2006-01-16, 921824, mpac3.1 2006-01-03, 897700, mpac3.1 2005-12-20, 874359, mpac3.1 2005-12-05, 851295, mpac3.1 2005-11-11, 815460, mpac3.1 2005-10-27, 791967, mpac3.1 2005-09-12, 726894, mpac3.1, (another long gap since last manual update) 2005-04-29, 544514, mpac3.1, (more than one month without data...) 2005-03-18, 500296, mpac3.1, (after another more minor server glitch and recovery) 2005-03-13, 496881, mpac3.1 2005-03-01, 486042, mpac3.1, (after server crash and DB recovery) 2005-02-10, 471659, mpac3.1 2005-01-27, 458779, mpac3.1 2005-01-01, 438533, mpac3.1 2004-12-04, 414023, mpac3.1 2004-11-18, 398159, mpac3.1 2004-11-16, 396408, mpac3.1 2004-11-08, 389614, mpac3.1 2004-11-01, 384336, mpac3.1 2004-09-01, 337911, mpac3.1 2004-08-25, 333015, mpac3.1 2004-08-23, 331191, mpac3.1 2004-08-13, 324551, mpac3.1 2004-08-07, 320532, mpac3.1 2004-07-25, 312524, mpac3.1 2004-07-10, 302333, mpac3.1 2004-05-13, 264854, mpac3.1 2004-05-07, 261964, mpac3.1 2004-04-28, 255596, mpac3.1 2004-02-27, 215140, mpac3.1 2004-02-15, 206665, mpac3.1 2004-02-07, 202410, mpac3.1 2004-02-01, 199738, mpac3.1 2004-01-28, 198011, mpac3.1 2004-01-22, 196070, mpac3.1 2003-12-31, 188538, mpac3.1 2003-12-23, 186539, mpac3.1 2003-12-16, 184273, mpac3.1 2003-12-08, 180008, mpac3.1 2003-12-03, 178093, mpac3.1, after database rebuild and recalculation of count 2003-11-25, 176091, mpac3.1 2003-11-21, 174904, mpac3.1 2003-11-19, 174376, mpac3.1 2003-11-12, 172387, mpac3.1 2003-10-30, 168762, mpac3.1 2003-10-14, 164565, mpac3.1 2003-10-04, 162636, mpac3.1 2003-09-27, 160361, mpac3.1 2003-09-12, 156047, mpac3.1 2003-09-09, 155316, mpac3.1 2003-09-04, 154061, mpac3.1 2003-08-31, 153047, mpac3.1 2003-08-15, 148859, mpac3.1 2003-07-27, 144467, mpac3.1 2003-07-15, 141607, mpac3.1 2003-07-07, 139896, mpac3.1 2003-07-04, 139031, mpac3.1 2003-07-01, 136737, mpac3.1 2003-06-27, 135963, mpac3.1 2003-06-25, 135504, mpac3.1 2003-06-22, 134869, mpac3.1 2003-06-19, 134256, mpac3.1 2003-06-16, 133411, mpac3.1 2003-06-11, 132267, mpac3.1 2003-06-09, 131900, mpac3.1 2003-06-06, 131249, mpac3.1 2003-06-04, 130797, mpac3.1 2003-05-31, 129884, mpac3.1 2003-05-28, 129240, mpac3.1 2003-05-25, 128475, mpac3.1 (correction of broken counter, new algorithm) 2003-05-22, 120704, mpacIII (installation of new webserver on 05-14 fixed the count at 120704) 2003-05-12, 120173, mpacIII 2003-04-29, 117658, mpacIII 2003-04-23, 116408, mpacIII 2003-04-22, 116259, mpacIII 2003-04-21, 116066, mpacIII 2003-04-20, 115879, mpacIII 2003-04-18, 115361, mpacIII 2003-04-15, 114861, mpacIII 2003-04-12, 114469, mpacIII 2003-04-11, 114274, mpacIII 2003-04-01, 112564, mpacIII 2003-03-28, 112035, mpacIII 2003-03-15, 109933, mpacIII 2003-03-07, 108593, mpacIII 2003-03-05, 108298, mpacIII 2003-02-27, 107243, mpacIII 2003-02-26, 107027, mpacIII 2003-02-24, 106700, mpacIII 2003-01-22, 100321, mpacIII 2003-01-12, 98475, mpacIII 2003-01-08, 97913, mpacIII 2003-01-04, 97137, mpacIII 2003-01-02, 96664, mpacIII 2002-12-26, 95735, mpacIII 2002-12-23, 95452, mpacIII 2002-12-16, 94497, mpacIII, (so; is the counter fixed now?) 2002-12-13, 93834, mpacIII 2002-12-10, 93301, mpacIII, Corrected counter drift 2002-12-10, 100046, mpacIII, RAMBOT causing Error in counter. 2002-12-04, 94165, mpacIII 2002-12-01, 93880, mpacIII 2002-11-27, 93263, mpacIII 2002-11-25, 92777, mpacIII, ~775 bot generated articles added. 2002-11-22, 91580, mpacIII, some recent performance problems 2002-11-18, 90905, mpacIII, article counter is back, after being switched off 2002-11-09, 90266, mpacIII 2002-11-07, 90003, mpacIII 2002-11-06, 89375, mpacIII 2002-11-01, 88597, mpacIII 2002-10-30, 88292, mpacIII 2002-10-27, 87285, mpacIII 2002-10-26, 87206, mpacIII 2002-10-25, 87037, mpacIII, rambot in operation 2002-10-24, 80887, mpacIII, rambot in operation 2002-10-23, 76958, mpacIII, rambot in operation 2002-10-22, 74005, mpacIII, rambot in operation 2002-10-21, 66738, mpacIII, rambot in operation 2002-10-20, 66372, mpacIII, rambot in operation 2002-10-19, 61128, mpacIII, rambot in operation 2002-10-17, 54339, mpacIII 2002-10-14, 53174, mpacIII 2002-10-11, 52571, mpacIII 2002-10-10, 52435, mpacIII 2002-10-08, 52092, mpacIII 2002-10-04, 50953, mpacIII 2002-10-03, 50804, mpacIII 2002-09-30, 49724, mpacIII 2002-09-27, 47448, mpacIII 2002-09-26, 47152, mpacIII 2002-09-25, 46133, mpacIII 2002-09-24, 45707, mpacIII 2002-09-23, 45462, mpacIII 2002-09-22, 45159, mpacIII 2002-09-21, 44920, mpacIII 2002-09-17, 43962, mpacIII 2002-09-16, 43762, mpacIII 2002-09-10, 42268, mpacIII 2002-09-09, 42021, mpacIII 2002-09-07, 41559, mpacIII 2002-09-05, 41141, mpacIII 2002-09-04, 40934, mpacIII 2002-09-03, 40718, mpacIII 2002-08-31, 40093, mpacIII 2002-08-22, 38780, mpacIII 2002-08-14, 37508, mpacIII 2002-08-12, 37259, mpacIII, upgraded to phase III software after major performance problems 2002-05-17, 33333, spII approx (WA) 2002-04-16, 32000, spII approx (WA) 2002-03-28, 30000, spII approx (WA) 2002-02-04, 23000, mpacII approx (WA) 2002-01-09, 20000, estimate approx (LMS WA) 2001-12-14, 19000, conscnt approx 2001-12-07, 18000, conscnt approx 2001-11-06, 16000, conscnt lowerbound 2001-10-25, 15053, conscnt (LMS WA) 2001-10-19, 14000, commacnt lowerbound 2001-10-04, 13182, conscnt (MF WA) 2001-09-19, 12502, conscnt (LMS) 2001-09-09, 11208, conscnt (MF) 2001-09-07, 10000, conscnt lowerbound 2001-08-22, 9043, conscnt 2001-08-07, 8000, conscnt 2001-07-27, 7243, conscnt 2001-07-26, 6947, conscnt 2001-07-08, 6000, conscnt lowerbound 2001-05-20, 4985, commapp 2001-05-10, 3969, commapp 2001-04-27, 3281, commapp 2001-03-30, 2221, commapp 2001-03-24, 1910, commapp 2001-03-07, 1323, commapp 2001-02-12, 1000, all lowerbound 2001-02-08, 900, all lowerbound 2001-01-31, 617, all 2001-01-25, 270, all 2001-01-10, 0, all
These pages hold the earlier source data in its original ad-hoc tabular format:
- See also : Wikipedia:Statistics, Wikipedia:Non-English Wikipedias
