List of Wikipedias

Screenshot of Wikipedia's portal wikipedia.org showing the different language editions sorted by article count.

This is a list of the different language editions of Wikipedia; as of February 2016 there are 292 Wikipedias of which 281 are active.

Wikipedia edition codes

Distribution of the 38,729,068 articles in different language editions (as of 17 February 2016)^[1]

  English (13.1%)

  Swedish (7.3%)

  Cebuano (5.2%)

  German (4.9%)

  Dutch (4.8%)

  French (4.5%)

  Russian (3.3%)

  Waray-Waray (3.3%)

  Italian (3.2%)

  Spanish (3.2%)

  Other (47.2%)

Each Wikipedia has a code, which is used as a subdomain below wikipedia.org. Interlanguage links are sorted by that code. The codes represent the language codes defined by ISO 639-1 and ISO 639-3, and the decision of which language code to use is usually determined by the IETF language tag policy. Wikipedias also vary by how thinly they slice dialects & variants; for example, the English Wikipedia includes most modern varieties of English (American English, Indian English, South African English, etc.), but does not include other related languages such as Scots, or Anglo-Saxon, all of which have separate Wikipedias. The Spanish Wikipedia includes both Peninsular Castilian & Latin American Spanish; Malay Wikipedia includes a large number of Malay languages; and so on.

Some differences between the ISO mappings & Wikipedia codes include:

Additionally, Wikipedias vary on wikt:orthography at times. Chinese Wikipedia automatically translates from modern Mandarin Chinese into four standard forms: Mainland China & Singapore in simplified Chinese characters, and Taiwan and Hong Kong / Macau in traditional Chinese characters. Belarussian, however, has a separate Wikipedia for the 'normative' orthography (be) and Taraškievica (be-tarask).

List

Size is given in decadic logarithm of number of Active Users. '5' means more than 10,000, '4' means more than 1000, '3' means more than 100 and so on.

Detailed list

Notes

• The "Total" column refers to the number of pages in all namespaces, including both articles (the official article count of each wiki) and non-articles (user pages, images, talk pages, "project" pages, categories, and templates).
• "Active Users" are registered users who have made at least one edit in the last thirty days.
• "Images" is the number of locally uploaded files. Note that some large Wikipedias don't use local images and rely on Commons completely, so the value 0 is not a glitch.
• The "Depth" column (Edits/Articles × Non-Articles/Articles × [1−Stub-ratio]) is a rough indicator of a Wikipedia’s quality, showing how frequently its articles are updated. It does not refer to academic quality.