Wikipedia:Statistics

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Tɛmplet:Wikistats While you read this, Wikipedia develops at a rate of over -4.2 edits every second, performed by editors from all over the world. Currently, the English Wikipedia includes 10,408 articles and it averages -2415 new articles per day. 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)

Statistical breakdowns using lists, tables and rankings.

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.

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

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

• Template:Article links with page views (Shortcut {{Alwpv}})
• Template:Check views
• Template:Link article stats
• Template:La
• Template:TAFI nom

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^{[dead link]}, 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)^{[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
• 2003 March – List of articles frequently visited through Google

• 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.

• 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

Wikimedia Commons has media related to English Wikipedia statistics.

• A list of Wikipedia articles created last month/week/day with most users contributing to article within the same period.
• 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
• Wikistats: Wikimedia Statistics

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