Wikipedia:Statistics

"WP:STAT" and "WP:STATS" redirect here. For the policy regarding use of statistics in articles, see Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not § Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. For article readership data, see Wikipedia:Pageview statistics. For mathematical science WikiProject, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Statistics.

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. There are Wikipedias in over 300 different languages and hundreds of sister projects.

Particularly, English Wikipedia receives 2 edits and more than 4,000 page views every second. As of January 2025, English Wikipedia includes 6,942,099 articles and it averages around 500 new articles per day. Over 11.9 million users have edited English Wikipedia at least once. The number of users with more than 5 edits are 3.6 million (37,750 in the last month).

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.

• Special:Statistics – automatically generated statistics about the English Wikipedia
• Wikimedia Statistics – statistics for all Wikimedia projects, including English Wikipedia (English Wikipedia statistics dashboard)
• Wiki comparison – annually updated spreadsheet providing key statistics for all Wikimedia projects, including English Wikipedia
• Database reports – index of automatically generated reports about English Wikipedia (GitHub)

Summary

English Wikipedia Item Count Articles 6,942,099 Pages 62,295,150 Files 931,747 Edits 1,265,728,443 Users 48,574,601 Admins 847 Active users 117,824

As of 2025, there are 838 active Wikimedia projects of a total of 1032. Of these active projects, 338 are Wikipedias and 171 are Wiktionaries. The largest projects are Wikidata (115 million items) and Wikimedia Commons (112 million files). The largest Wikipedia is the English language edition (6.9 million articles) and it contains over 4.7 billion words. Other less known projects include Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikisource, Wikivoyage and Wikispecies.

• Size of Wikipedia – by number of articles, number of words, and gigabytes of data
• Size of Wikipedia in volumes – to see the size of Wikipedia in print encyclopedia volumes
• Size comparisons – comparisons against other encyclopedias and information collections
• {{NUMBEROF}} – template to display Wikimedia Foundation site stats

Project(s)	Articles	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
English Wikipedia	6,942,099	62,295,150	1,265,728,443	847	48,574,601	117,824	931,747
All active Wikipedias	64,294,241	268,237,670	3,646,044,897	3,499	117,391,378	291,612	2,839,110
English Wiktionary	8,304,299	9,937,680	83,615,247	75	4,246,784	2,406	16
All active Wiktionaries	42,838,927	51,972,285	299,289,531	529	7,449,841	6,979	2,134
English Wikiquote	55,587	216,729	3,630,169	15	3,209,045	536	0
All active Wikiquotes	343,468	1,140,651	11,362,647	194	4,306,369	2,032	1,359
English Wikibooks	97,797	291,953	4,320,896	11	3,484,345	292	2,655
All active Wikibooks	386,400	1,284,087	12,344,130	183	4,746,676	1,654	43,132
English Wikinews	22,024	2,904,623	4,829,823	18	2,883,271	143	3,505
All active Wikinews	1,760,550	17,655,104	31,155,370	119	3,354,560	771	5,110
English Wikisource	1,088,010	4,523,001	14,797,528	22	3,152,892	484	16,230
All active Wikisources	6,324,424	20,911,152	69,316,547	314	4,997,852	3,064	79,535
English Wikivoyage	32,994	174,145	5,004,004	34	2,318,555	527	1,824
All active Wikivoyages	140,214	622,070	10,633,439	110	2,686,127	1,235	19,510
English Wikiversity	37,068	236,623	2,664,707	10	2,994,352	198	39,961
All active Wikiversities	159,018	604,355	6,200,078	63	3,396,172	709	43,817
Wikispecies	900,135	2,028,899	10,472,365	23	2,918,470	247	0
Wikimedia Commons	108,542,424	148,334,603	983,918,430	181	13,166,210	35,001	112,948,536
Wikidata	115,011,503	120,223,842	2,299,323,906	72	6,813,907	23,892	0
All Wikimedia projects	341,034,969	649,056,699	7,419,004,126	5,642	217,103,488	371,180	115,988,103

Source: commons:Data:Wikipedia statistics/data.tab

Statistics by namespace

Articles

As of 2025, English Wikipedia has 6.9 million articles which have received 825 million edits from 11.9 million users. The actual text content in all its pages is about 156 GB in size. When counting all the revisions in histories, the size is 26,455 GB (26 TB). All this data is publicly available and can be downloaded from the Wikimedia Downloads site in different compression formats (7z, bz2). The Kiwix version of the English Wikipedia including images and after applying some optimization is 109 GB.

As of January 2025, the longest article is Opinion polling for the 2024 United Kingdom general election with 691,567 bytes and the most edited is List of WWE personnel with over 58.000 edits. There are bigger pages with over 3 MB in size and more edited but are related to Wikipedia maintenance.

In the last years, on average around 200,000 articles have been created every year in English Wikipedia. The number of creations has declined since it peaked in 2006 with over 584,000 new articles created that year.

• Modelling Wikipedia's growth – analysis of the count of articles, attempting to fit mathematical growth models

Source: Wikiscan

Categories

As of 2025, English Wikipedia has 2.4 million categories. The page with most categories is List of ISO 639-2 codes with 354 categories. The categories with most pages are related to Wikipedia maintenance.

Source: Wikiscan

Images and files

All geolocated images in Wikimedia Commons.

Wikimedia Commons is the main media repository for Wikimedia projects. As of 2024, the repository contains over 112 million free-to-use media files or around 585 TB. English Wikipedia allows uploading files locally, though they must comply with the non-free content criteria, having around 931,000 files to date.

Besides images (100,306,082), files in other formats are also available: audio (3,528,861), video (337,254), PDFs (5,043,585) and 3D files (9,910). The most linked images are related to Wikipedia maintenance.

Wikimedia Commons has over 270,000 images with more than 50 megapixels.

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

Source: Wikiscan

Talk pages

As of 2025, English Wikipedia has 8.1 million talk pages for articles. 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.

Source: Wikiscan

Redirects

As of 2025, English Wikipedia has 11.2 million redirects to articles. 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.

Source: Wikiscan

Statistics by action

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.

Edits

In 2024, people from all over the world did 597 million edits to Wikimedia projects. Wikipedia (in all languages) received 180 million edits and English Wikipedia 72 million edits. Roughly, about 4-5% of all edits are reverts.

Source: Wikiscan

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

Project	Edits in 2024 (all)	Edits in 2024 (humans)	Edits in 2024 (bots)
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.	Active
List of Wikipedians by article count	User	Top 10,000 editors by article creation.	Active
Registered editors by edit count	User	How many registered editors have made a given number of edits.	Active
WRating	User	Evaluates the contribution of Wikipedia contributors to its traffic over the past month.	Active
Wikipedia:Database reports/Pages with the most revisions	Page		Active
Special:MostRevisions	Page	Similar to the above but only for articles.	Active
Wikipedia:Database reports/Most edited articles last month	Page		Active
stats.wikimedia.org	Page	Interactive tool	Active
Most frequently edited pages	Page	Inactive since May 2008.	Inactive
New articles created per day	Overall	Can be filtered by user group or namespace	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.	Active

Page views

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.

Particularly, 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.

In 2024, the ten most viewed articles in 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). 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.

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.

Tools for page views
Tool	Scope	Description	Status
Wikimedia Stats	Overall	For viewing per-project statistics	Active
toolforge:siteviews	Overall	Siteviews Analysis (for viewing the total number of pageviews to a project, or the number of unique devices)	Active
Article traffic jumps	Overall	A place to document unusual jumps in article traffic.	Active
toolforge:topviews	Ranking	Topviews Analysis (for viewing the most viewed pages of a project)	Active
WikiShark	Ranking	Article traffic statistics and comparisons between articles	Active
The Open Wikipedia Ranking	Ranking	Most viewed, can be filtered by category	Active
Wikipedia:Top 25 Report	Ranking	Top 25 most popular articles weekly chart with human commentary, republished as The Signpost Traffic Report	Active
Wikipedia:Popular pages	Ranking	Top-100 list of most viewed pages for 2007–2023	Inactive
Did you know/Statistics	Ranking		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	Active
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 calculation – a PHP program that calculates monthly stats for a list of articles, using the Pageviews API	Active
toolforge:langviews	By page	Langviews Analysis (for viewing a page's statistics across all languages)	Active
TreeViews	By page	Monthly view statistics for category trees	Active
Massviews Analysis	By page	Accepts lists of articles or category names	Active
User:HostBot/Social media traffic report	Other	retired May 2020	Inactive
Wikitop	Other	top 30 most popular articles by categories, with user comments on traffic jumps	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.	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	Inactive
Some Alexa statistics	Other	for the English Wikipedia - discontinued in May 2022	Inactive
Wikipedia is more popular than...	Other	a list of Alexa traffic comparisons (last updated February 2018)	Inactive
ZeitGeist	Other	(stats.wikimedia.org) - retired at the end of 2018. Zeitgeist 2008-2013	Inactive
Wikipedia:Most popular pages October 2001	Other		Inactive
Wikipedia:Popular pages (historical). 2003: Oct. 2004: Mar. through Sep. 2008: May	Other		Inactive
Most read articles in 2008	Other		Inactive
Most read articles in 2009	Other		Inactive
Most read articles in 2010	Other		Inactive
{{stats.grok.se}}	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	Inactive

Blocks

Source: Wikiscan

Protections

On average, in the last years around 15-20 thousand protections to articles are done annually. From the beginning of English Wikipedia, articles have received over 416,000 protections. The second and third most protected namespaces are templates (56,000 protections) and user talk pages (47,000 protections).

Source: Wikiscan

Deletions

In the last years there is a decline in article deletions, but that is probably explained because many new articles are now created as drafts.

Source: Wikiscan

Quality

Featured content

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.)

Vandalism

• This page shows the number of mainspace articles deleted each day.
• Statistics about Articles for Deletion discussions can be found at User:JPxG/Oracle.
• Statistics about deletion and other administrator actions can be found at the WP:Adminstats page.
• A list of recently deleted files can be found at Special:Log/delete.
• An outdated list of revision deletion statistics can be found here.
• A (currently broken) page that showed reverts over recent days using counter-vandalism tools (ClueBot NG, Huggle, STiki) and by other means.
• As of 2023, about 162,000 unique registered editors and 85,000 unique IP addresses have ever edited an AFD page (usually to comment). This represents 1 out of every 85 successful registered editors.

Wikiprojects

All rated articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low ??? Total FA 1,585 2,525 2,424 1,984 186 8,704 FL 181 702 773 694 100 2,450 A 372 685 790 580 91 2,518 GA 3,285 7,464 14,962 20,034 1,785 47,530 B 17,211 33,353 55,248 71,705 23,784 201,301 C 17,197 55,026 137,778 320,284 93,506 623,791 Start 18,563 93,225 420,288 1,656,666 416,927 2,605,669 Stub 4,236 31,291 277,075 2,814,760 760,197 3,887,559 List 4,954 17,488 54,898 204,307 82,187 363,834 Assessed 67,584 241,759 964,236 5,091,014 1,378,763 7,743,356 Unassessed 113 412 995 16,318 390,208 408,046 Total 67,697 242,171 965,231 5,107,332 1,768,971 8,151,402 About this table

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.

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.

Users

As of January 2025, over 11.9 million users have edited English Wikipedia at least once. The number of users with more than 5 edits are 3.6 million (37,750 in the last month).

Tools

Frameworks

• mediawiki-utilities – A set of utilities for accessing and processing MediaWiki data, including XML dumps
• pywikibot

Visualizations

The following tools include artistic, graphs, maps and other visualization projects.

Visualisation tools

Tool	Topic	Code	Description	Image
WikiShark	Page views		WikiShark enables the viewing and comparison of pageview traffic data from the years 2008–present. The data is updated hourly.
Listen to Wikipedia	Edits	GitHub	Visual and audio illustration of live editing activity on 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.
WikiChecker (broken)	Edits		Actuality of Wikipedia based on last edits, ranking by users and pages. Edit-war detector and more.
Wikistats2	Edits Page views	GitHub	Numbers and graphs for several core metrics, updated monthly with data and newer features added quarterly.
Wikistats1 (historical)	Edits		Erik Zachte's statistics for all projects and all languages. Historical information captured monthly until 31 January 2019. Replaced by Wikistats2.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 analytics.wikimedia.org site provides

• User Agent Breakdowns grouping results by operating system and browser
• vital-signs total views for different Wikipedia sites

Datasets

Main page: Wikipedia:Pageview statistics

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

• Wikipedia:Database download
• meta:Research:Data Overview over various data sources for analyzing Wikipedia, including page view numbers

Archived statistics

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:

• 2013 September – List of Wikipedians by number of recent edits – covers 2004–2013.
• 2010 May – Awareness statistics – tracking growth in public awareness
• 2010 January – comScore audience measurement data – analysis of data donated by one of the third-party measurement services
• 2009 September – THEwikiStics: Page Hits top 1000+ ^long-term (compare traffic | searches) | Logged search terms | popular last hour | Most missed articles
• 2009 June – Wikipedia:Vandalism statistics
• 2009 April – User:Bryan/List of users by pages created
• 2008 October – Multilingual statistics – monthly details of total article count, and analysis of the monthly rate of article growth, for each version of Wikipedia.
• 2008 May – Most frequently edited pages – Updated based on data as of 23 May 2008.
• 2007 June – Wikimedia page views (Referrers) "not very scientific, but some might find it interesting"
• 2006 September – Articles which are number 1 for one-word Google searches
• 2006 July – WikiProject creation and attrition trends
• 2006 March – Stub percentages, information on stubs as a percentage of total articles
• 2006 January – Most referenced articles, a list of the articles that are linked to by the greatest number of other articles
• 2006 January – Search engine statistics
• 2005 October – Wikipedia:Words per article
• 2005 July – Alterego's WikiPulse (which has now disappeared) gathered many statistics every hour from various sources. Some of the statistics, such as the mailing list totals, most active Wikipedian per hour and per day, and most edited article per hour and per day were unique. There was also an rss feed, and instructions on how to read some of the more interesting graphs.
• 2004 February/October – Web browsers used to access Wikipedia
• 2004 August – List of Wikipedians by most recent edit – listed based on number of articles to which they had made the most recent edit
• 2004 April – As below, but updated (now gone)
• 2004 April – Traffic – an old system for measuring traffic
• 2004 March – A whole list of accessed Wikipedia pages: (as of 23 March 2004: 38 MB) is a list of all pages accessed in March 2004 (as of 23 March 2004: 684,000), in all namespaces, sorted by number of times that they have been accessed; includes pages that do not exist. URLs are taken until ampersand or question mark, if any, hence w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Allpages&from=Train falls under w/wiki.phtml, but the equivalent wiki/Special:Allpages/Train would be listed separately (now gone)
• 2004 February – Pages from English Wikipedia with more than 1000 hits and Wikipedia namespace
• 2004 February – Pages from English Wikipedia with more than 1000 hits
• 2003 March – List of articles frequently visited through Google

Archived analysis

• Does Wikipedia traffic obey Zipf's law? – as of September 2006, the answer appears to be "yes, approximately".
• Top 500 websites by number of inbound links from Wikipedia – reveals most linked domains from external Wikipedia links. Updated November 2006.
• User:Dragons flight/Log analysis – Edit rate, Edits per article, Revert rate, New articles, new users, new administrators, Uploads and admin actions. Updated Oct 2007.
• Editing frequency – Statistics on users' editing activity, monthly from January 2001 through September 2008.
• Wikipedia Workload Analysis for Decentralized Hosting – July 2009 analysis of a sample of Wikipedia's traffic over a 107-day period.

See also

• meta.wikimedia/Milestones for Wikimedia projects
• meta.wikimedia/Statistics page for Wikimedia
• meta.wikimedia/Wikipedia article depth
• Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia
• User essay/All human knowledge
• User essay/Temporal Analysis of the Wikigraph – Technical Report, 2006.
• Wikipedia:Article traffic jumps
• Wikipedia:Pools
• Wikipedia:Statistics Department – an inactive WikiProject.
• Wikipedia:Wikipedia records
• Wikipedia's timeline

External links

• Wikimedia Statistics
• Erik Zachte's site
• List of tools in WikiPapers, with some statistical tools for wikis and Wikipedia
• Wikimedia Foundation analytics team pages on MediaWiki.org, with e.g. definitions of some common metrics
• Wikipedia Page History Statistics
• Wikishark Wikipedia Includes pageviews for all articles in all languages on Wikipedia
• A list of Wikipedia articles created last month/week/day with most users contributing to article within the same period.