Wikipedia:Multilingual statistics (2003)

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

[edit] 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 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

[edit] 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

[edit] New articles per month

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