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Template:Redirect2 Template:Information page Template:Wikistats While you read this page, Wikimedia projects develop at a rate of over 18 edits every second performed by editors from all over the world, while receiving almost 10,000 page views every second.<ref group="note">Estimate: 597 million edits and 296 billion page views in 2024 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 over 2 edits and more than 4,000 page views every second.<ref group="note">Estimate: 72 million edits and 130 billion page views in 2024 divided by (86,400 sec/day * 365 days).</ref> As of August 2025, the English Wikipedia includes 1 articles and it averages around 500 new articles per day. Around 11 MB of encyclopedic text is added to the articles daily (4 GB in a year).<ref group="note">Estimate: 4,315,904,087 bytes in 2024 added to article namespace divided by 365 days. (Wikiscan - Diff)</ref> Since its inception, over 11.9 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 3.6 million (37,750 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 frameworks and 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.

SummaryEdit

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As of 2025, there are 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, 338 are Wikipedias and 171 are Wiktionaries. The largest projects are Wikimedia Commons (Template:NUMBEROF files)<ref>commons:Special:Statistics</ref> and Wikidata (Template:NUMBEROF items).<ref>d:Special:Statistics</ref>

The largest Wikipedia is the Template:Wikipedia rank by size/WP language edition (Template:NUMBEROF articles). It is followed by the Template:Wikipedia rank by size/WP (Template:NUMBEROF articles) and Template:Wikipedia rank by size/WP (Template:NUMBEROF articles) editions. The Cebuano Wikipedia uses bots to create most of its articles.

Other less known projects include Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikisource, Wikivoyage and Wikispecies.

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Statistics by namespaceEdit

Pages are placed in different namespaces according to their contents. Encyclopedic pages (articles, lists and disambiguations) are located in namespace 0 (main), files are in the namespace 6, and categories are in namespace 14. All namespaces have an associated talk page namespace and all of them allow redirects.

As of 2025, the English Wikipedia has Template:NUMBEROF pages. The current text content in all its pages is about 156 GB in size.<ref name="wikiscan enwiki" /> When counting all the revisions in histories, the size is 26,455 GB (26 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>Wikimedia Downloads</ref>

ArticlesEdit

Template:Download Wikipedia As of 2025, the English Wikipedia has Template:NUMBEROF articles which have received 825 million edits from 11.9 million users since the project's inception.<ref name="wikiscan enwiki">Wikiscan - English Wikipedia</ref> The current text content in all its articles is about 58 GB in size.<ref>Quarry query: English Wikipedia articles size in gigabytes</ref> The Kiwix version (an offline reader) of the English Wikipedia including images is around 100 GB after applying some optimization and compression.<ref>Kiwix Library</ref>

As of January 2025, the longest article is Opinion polling for the 2024 United Kingdom general election with 691,567 bytes<ref>Special:LongPages</ref> and the most edited is List of WWE personnel with over 58,000 edits.<ref>Special:MostRevisions</ref> There are bigger pages with over 3 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.

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 584,000 new articles created that year.<ref>Wikiscan - Creations in English Wikipedia</ref>

In 2024, 4,315,904,087 bytes of encyclopedic text was added to articles, or around 11 MB of text every day.<ref>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.

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CategoriesEdit

As of 2025, the English Wikipedia has 2.4 million 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 354 categories.<ref>Special:MostCategories</ref> The categories with most pages are related to Wikipedia maintenance.<ref>Special:MostLinkedCategories</ref>

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Images and filesEdit

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All geolocated images in Wikimedia Commons.

Wikimedia Commons is the main media repository for Wikimedia projects. As of 2025, the repository contains Template:NUMBEROF free-to-use media files<ref>commons:Special:Statistics</ref> or around 585 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 Template:NUMBEROF files to date.<ref>Special:MediaStatistics</ref>

Besides images (100,306,082 files), content in other formats is also available: audio (3,528,861 files), video (337,254), PDFs (5,043,585) and 3D files (9,910).<ref name="commons mediastats" /> The most linked images are related to Wikipedia maintenance.<ref>Special:MostLinkedFiles</ref>

Wikimedia Commons has over 270,000 images with more than 50 megapixels.<ref>commons:Category:Large images</ref> Almost 10,000 files are over 1 GB, the bigger ones (5 GB) are mostly films from the silent era.<ref>Quarry: Wikimedia Commons files by size</ref> The largest image is a 20th-century map of Vienna (3.94 GB).<ref>Quarry: Largest images in Wikimedia Commons</ref><ref>commons:File:Vienna-big.tif</ref>

As of 2022, about 50% of articles on the English Wikipedia contain at least one image.Template:Cn

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Talk pagesEdit

As of 2025, the English Wikipedia has 8.1 million talk pages for articles.<ref name="dbpagecountnm" /> The figure is greater than the number of articles because the archival system creates multiple talk pages for some pages when the size is too big.

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>Wikiscan - Edits by users (humans) to talk pages</ref>

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

RedirectsEdit

As of 2025, the English Wikipedia has 11.2 million 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 7000 redirects.<ref>Wikipedia:Database reports/Articles with the most redirects</ref>

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Statistics by actionEdit

The most common actions include editing articles and reading them. Among the special actions that requires admin rights are blocking users, protecting pages and deleting content.

EditsEdit

In 2024, people from all over the world did 597 million edits to Wikimedia projects.<ref>Wikimedia Statistics - All wikis - 2024</ref> Wikipedia (in all languages) received 180 million edits<ref>Wikimedia Statistics - All Wikipedias - 2024</ref> and the English Wikipedia 72 million edits.<ref>Wikimedia Statistics - English Wikipedia - 2024</ref>

In the last years, around 11–13% of edits are mobile edits and 6–8% are done using VisualEditor.<ref>Wikiscan - Tags</ref> Roughly, about 4–5% of all edits are reverts.<ref>Wikiscan - Reverts</ref>

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

Considering all Wikimedia projects, around 18 edits are submitted every second, half of them are done by bots.

Project Edits in 2024 Edits by humans in 2024 Edits by bots in 2024
English Wikipedia 72 million (2.2 edits/sec) 48 million (1.5 edits/sec) 24 million (0.7 edits/sec)
All active Wikipedias 180 million (5.7 edits/sec) 109 million (3.4 edits/sec) 71 million (2.2 edits/sec)
All Wikimedia projects 597 million (18.9 edits/sec) 287 million (9.1 edits/sec) 310 million (9.8 edits/sec)

Source: Wikimedia Statistics

Tools for measuring edits
Tool Scope Description Status
List of Wikipedians by number of edits User 10,000 editors with highest editcounts, updated daily. Template:Active
List of Wikipedians by article count User Top 10,000 editors by article creation. Template:Active
Registered editors by edit count User How many registered editors have made a given number of edits. Template:Active
WRating User Evaluates the contribution of Wikipedia contributors to its traffic over the past month. Template:Active
Wikipedia:Database reports/Pages with the most revisions Page Template:Active
Special:MostRevisions Page Similar to the above but only for articles. Template:Active
Wikipedia:Database reports/Most edited articles last month Page Template:Active
stats.wikimedia.org Page Interactive tool Template:Active
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. Template:Active
Most frequently edited pages Page Inactive since May 2008. Template:Site inactive
New articles created per day Overall Can be filtered by user group or namespace Template:Active
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. Template:Active

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Wikimedia projects had 296 billion page views in 2024 (24 billion in December 2024).

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 over 24 billion page views per month, or almost 10,000 page views every second.<ref>Wikimedia Statistics - Monthly overview - All wikis</ref>

Particularly, the English Wikipedia had 130 billion page views in 2024, and 11 billion in December 2024, with 3 billion coming from the United States, 844 million from the United Kingdom, 664 million from India and 368 million from Canada.<ref>Wikimedia Statistics - Monthly overview (en.wikipedia.org)</ref>

In 2024, the ten most viewed articles in the English Wikipedia were Deaths in 2024 (49 million views), YouTube (42M), 2024 United States presidential election (30M), Kamala Harris (29M), Donald Trump (27M), Indian Premier League (24M), Deadpool & Wolverine (22M), Project 2025 (20M), ChatGPT (18M) and 2024 Indian general election (18M).<ref>Topviews Analysis (en.wikipedia.org)</ref> It reflects current events and it is shaped by the geographical procedence of each Wikipedia visitors and their interests. For example, in Spanish Wikipedia none of the ten most viewed articles were about the United States elections, being Donald Trump in the 31st position and Kamala Harris in the 68th.<ref>Topviews Analysis (es.wikipedia.org)</ref>

Most articles have very low traffic. In 2023, 90% of articles averaged between zero and ten page views per day. The median article gets about one page view per week. Because the top 0.1% of high-traffic articles can each get millions of page views in a year, the mean is about 100 times the median.

Estimating relative popularity based on annual page views (2023 data)
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Tools for page views
Tool Scope Description Status
Wikimedia Stats Overall For viewing per-project statistics Template:Active
toolforge:siteviews Overall Siteviews Analysis (for viewing the total number of pageviews to a project, or the number of unique devices) Template:Active
Article traffic jumps Overall A place to document unusual jumps in article traffic. Template:Active
toolforge:topviews Ranking Topviews Analysis (for viewing the most viewed pages of a project) Template:Active
WikiShark Ranking Article traffic statistics and comparisons between articles Template:Active
The Open Wikipedia Ranking Ranking Most viewed, can be filtered by category Template:Active
Wikipedia:Top 25 Report Ranking Top 25 most popular articles weekly chart with human commentary, republished as The Signpost Traffic Report Template:Active
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. Template:Active
Wikipedia:Popular pages Ranking Top-100 list of most viewed pages for 2007–2023 Template:Site inactive
Did you know/Statistics Ranking Template: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

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Pageviews Analysis By topic Article traffic statistics, also allowing comparisons between articles (documentation, local documenation, FAQ, wikitech:Analytics/AQS/Pageviews API documentation)

User:Dsimic/Traffic stats calculationTemplate:Snd a PHP program that calculates monthly stats for a list of articles, using the Pageviews API

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toolforge:langviews By page Langviews Analysis (for viewing a page's statistics across all languages) Template:Active
TreeViews By page Monthly view statistics for category trees Template:Active
Massviews Analysis By page Accepts lists of articles or category names Template:Active
User:HostBot/Social media traffic report Other retired May 2020 Template:Site inactive
Wikitop Other top 30 most popular articles by categories, with user comments on traffic jumps Template:Site inactive
User:West.andrew.g/Popular pages Other weekly 5,000 most popular articles based on raw data - inactive since February 7, 2020.

Popular pages by Andrew West for 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.

Template:Site inactive
Wikitrends Other 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: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

Template:Site inactive
Some Alexa statistics Other for the English Wikipedia - discontinued in May 2022 Template:Site inactive
Wikipedia is more popular than... Other a list of Alexa traffic comparisons (last updated February 2018) Template:Site inactive
ZeitGeist Other (stats.wikimedia.org) - retired at the end of 2018. Zeitgeist 2008-2013 Template:Site inactive
Wikipedia:Most popular pages October 2001 Other Template:Site inactive
Wikipedia:Popular pages (historical). 2003: Oct. 2004: Mar. through Sep. 2008: May Other Template:Site inactive
Most read articles in 2008 Other Template:Site inactive
Most read articles in 2009 Other Template:Site inactive
Most read articles in 2010 Other Template:Site inactive
Template:Tl Other http://stats.grok.se/ Data collection stopped on 21 January 2016. Was used for viewing older per-page statistics, but offline since March, 2017. User:Killiondude/stats - FAQ for stats.grok.se. Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/Local/stats-classic.grok.se. Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/stats-classic.grok.se. Wikipedia:Google https links#Confirmed stats.grok.se pageviews omit https requests Template:Site inactive

BlocksEdit

Between 2021 and 2024, ST47ProxyBot blocked millions of open proxies.<ref>Wikiscan - ST47ProxyBot</ref>

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

ProtectionsEdit

On average, in the last years around 15–20 thousand protections to articles are done annually.<ref name="wikiscan protections">Wikiscan - Protections in namespace 0</ref> From the beginning of the English Wikipedia, articles have received over 416,000 protections.<ref name="wikiscan protections" /> The second and third most protected namespaces are templates (56,000 protections) and user talk pages (47,000 protections).<ref name="wikiscan protections" />

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

DeletionsEdit

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>Wikiscan - Deletions</ref>


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

QualityEdit

Featured contentEdit

As of January 2025, featured articles comprise 6,665 out of a total of 6,941,668 articles on the English Wikipedia (about 0.1% or one out of every 1,040 articles). There are 4,548 featured lists and 8,199 featured pictures too.

As of 2022, the median article is a stub. This typically means that it contains a few sentences on the subject. (Elements such as images, infoboxes, and most lists are not usually counted in this calculation.)Template:Cn

BiasesEdit

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Gender bias includes various gender-related disparities on Wikipedia, particularly the overrepresentation of men among both volunteer contributors and article subjects.

As of January 2025, the English Wikipedia has around 400,000 encyclopedic biographies about women, while having over 1.6 million about men.<ref name="humaniki" />

VandalismEdit

WikiprojectsEdit

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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 2025, the most active wikiproject (non-related to Wikipedia maintenance) by number of changes to all its pages in the last 365 days is Women in Red.<ref>Wikipedia:Database reports/WikiProjects by changes</ref>

UsersEdit

Users who contribute to Wikipedia by editing its pages are wikipedians, unlike readers who simply read the articles.

As of January 2025, over 11.9 million users have edited the English Wikipedia at least once.<ref name="wikiscan enwiki" /> The number of users with more than 5 edits are 3.6 million (37,750 in the last month).<ref name="wikiscan enwiki" />

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ToolsEdit

Visualisation tools
Tool Topic Code Description Image
Quarry Databases Query Wikimedia projects databases.
mediawiki-utilities Data processing GitHub A set of utilities for accessing and processing MediaWiki data, including XML dumps
pywikibot Bots GitHub Python library and collection of tools that automate work on MediaWiki sites.
WikiShark Page views WikiShark enables the viewing and comparison of pageview traffic data from the years 2008–present. The data is updated hourly. WikiShark is an online tool which enables the viewing and comparison of Wikipedia traffic data
Listen to Wikipedia Edits GitHub Visual and audio illustration of live editing activity on Wikipedia. Listen to Wikipedia
Pageviews Analysis Page views GitHub Page views statistics for several Wikipedia languages. You can select by month and the last 10, 20, 30, 60 or 90 days. Page views statistics for an article
WikiChecker (broken) Edits Actuality of Wikipedia based on last edits, ranking by users and pages. Edit-war detector and more. User edits by day of week and hour
Wikistats2 Edits
Page views 		GitHub Numbers and graphs for several core metrics, updated monthly with data and newer features added quarterly.
wiki4trends Edits
Page views, edits, content, links, creation date, categories 		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.
Wikistats1 (historical) Edits Erik Zachte's statistics for all projects and all languages. Historical information captured monthly until 31 January 2019. Replaced by Wikistats2. Wikipedia statistics
wikipulse (broken) Edits 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. Wikipulse
wlm-stats (historical) GLAM GitHub Statistics and graphs about the Wiki Loves Monuments photograph contest. Historical information captured until September 2018. It offers metadata files to create your own statistics. Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 stats
wmcharts (broken) Edits GitHub A collection of charts about Wikimedia projects, including activity on recent changes, new pages, deletions, blocks, protections, file uploads, reverts and more. Gender gap statistics
wmcounter (broken) Edits 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. The 1 billionth edit took place on April 16, 2010
wikipedia diversity observatory (historical) Content Diversity GitHub 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. The 1 billionth edit took place on April 16, 2010

Template:Commonscat The analytics.wikimedia.org site provides

DatasetsEdit

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

Archived statisticsEdit

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:

Archived analysisEdit

See alsoEdit

NotesEdit

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