While you read this page, Wikipedia develops at a rate of over 2 edits every second, performed by editors from all over the world. Currently, the English Wikipedia includes 6,899,417 articles and it averages 531 new articles per day. In 2023, 812,635 registered editors made at least one edit. 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)
Charts
Statistical breakdowns using lists, tables and rankings.
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.)
As a rule of thumb, the more popular the article is as measured by page views, the higher quality it will be.
Images
As of 2022, about 50% of articles on the English Wikipedia contain at least one image.
As of 2014 a relatively stable 10% of editors who make over 5 edits each month make over 100 edits.
The English Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects can get ~10 billion views per month each. See overview at Wikimedia Statistics.
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.
Pageviews Analysis – article traffic statistics, also allowing comparisons between articles (documentation, local documenation, FAQ, wikitech:Analytics/AQS/Pageviews API documentation)
{{stats.grok.se}} — http://stats.grok.se/ - Data collection stopped on 21 January 2016. Was used for viewing older per-page statistics, but offline since March, 2017.
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.
Analytics
The analytics.wikimedia.org site provides
User Agent Breakdowns grouping results by operating system and browser
vital-signs total views for different Wikipedia sites
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–. 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.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wikimedia page view statistics.
Frameworks
mediawiki-utilities – A set of utilities for accessing and processing MediaWiki data, including XML dumps
Datasets
There are some available datasets that you can download and process:
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:
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
2008 October – Multilingual statistics – monthly details of total article count, and analysis of the monthly rate of article growth, for each version of Wikipedia.
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[dead link], and instructions on how to read some of the more interesting graphs.
2004 April – As below, but updated (now gone)[dead link]
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[dead link]. 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
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.