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== 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 2025, the English Wikipedia has {{NUMBEROF|pages|en.wikipedia|N}} pages. The current text content in all its pages is about 156 [[Gigabyte|GB]] in size.<ref name="wikiscan enwiki" /> When counting all the revisions in histories, the size is 26,455 [[Gigabyte|GB]] (26 [[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 2025, the English Wikipedia has {{NUMBEROF|articles|en.wikipedia|N}} [[Wikipedia:What is an article?|articles]] which have received 825 million edits from 11.9 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 58 [[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>

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|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>[https://en.wikiscan.org/?menu=tables&submenu=creation Wikiscan - Creations in English Wikipedia]</ref>

In 2024, 4,315,904,087 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 2025, the English Wikipedia has 2.4 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 354 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]].]]
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[[Wikimedia Commons]] is the main media repository for Wikimedia projects. As of 2025, the repository contains {{NUMBEROF|files|commons|N}} free-to-use media [[Help:Files|files]]<ref>[[commons:Special:Statistics]]</ref> or around 585 [[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 (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>[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>

As of 2022, about 50% of articles on the English Wikipedia contain at least one image.{{cn}}

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

=== Talk pages ===

As of 2025, the English Wikipedia has 8.1 million [[Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines|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>[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 2025, the English Wikipedia has 11.2 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 7000 redirects.<ref>[[Wikipedia:Database reports/Articles with the most redirects]]</ref>

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