Wikipedia:Statistics

While you read this page, Wikimedia projects develop at an average rate of over 16 edits every second performed by editors from all over the world, while receiving almost 10,000 page views every second.^{[note 1]} There are Wikipedias in over 300 different languages and hundreds of sister projects.^[1]

The English Wikipedia receives an average of over 2 edits and more than 4,500 page views every second.^{[note 2]} As of June 2026, the English Wikipedia includes 7,194,425 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).^{[note 3]} Since its inception, over 12.4 million users have edited the English Wikipedia at least once.^[2] The number of users who have made more than 5 edits are 3.7 million (37,167 in the last month).^[2]

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

As of 2026, there are 838 active Wikimedia projects of a total of 1032.^[3] Of these active projects, 331 are Wikipedias and 169 are Wiktionaries. The largest projects are Wikimedia Commons (142,913,711 files)^[4] and Wikidata (122,131,689 items).^[5]

The largest Wikipedia is the English language edition (7,194,425 articles). It is followed by the Cebuano (6,115,370 articles) and German (3,128,640 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.

• 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

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

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 2026, the English Wikipedia has 65,765,204 pages. The current text content in all its pages is about 166 GB in size.^[2] When counting all the revisions in histories, the size is 28,593 GB (28 TB).^[2] All this data is publicly available and can be downloaded from the Wikimedia Downloads site in different compression formats (7z, bz2).^[6]

As of 2026, the English Wikipedia has 7,194,425 articles which have received 872 million edits from 12.4 million users since the project's inception.^[2] The current text content in all its articles is about 63 GB in size.^[7] The Kiwix version (an offline reader) of the English Wikipedia including images is around 100 GB after applying some optimization and compression.^[8]

The median article contains about 300–350 words, or 13 sentences. About half of articles contain four or fewer references.^[9]

As of 2026, the longest article is Japanese conjugation (mizenkei base) with 787,887 bytes^[10] and the most edited is List of WWE personnel with over 59,000 edits.^[11] There are bigger pages with over 2.5 MB in size^[12] and 2 million edits^[13] 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 580,000 new articles created that year.^[14]

In 2025, 4,419,658,359 bytes of encyclopedic text was added to articles, or around 11 MB of text every day.^[15] 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.

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

Source: Wikiscan

As of 2026, the English Wikipedia has 2.6 million categories.^[16] The page with most categories is List of ISO 639-2 codes with 405 categories.^[17] The categories with most pages are related to Wikipedia maintenance.^[18]

Source: Wikiscan

Wikimedia Commons is the main media repository for Wikimedia projects. As of 2026, the repository contains 142,913,711 free-to-use media files ^[19] or around 924 TB.^[20] The English Wikipedia allows uploading files locally, though they must comply with the non-free content criteria, having 969,643 files to date.^[21]

Besides images (120,651,430 files), content in other formats is also available: audio (4,184,829 files), video (381,644), PDFs (6,199,168) and 3D files (11,151).^[20] The most linked images are related to Wikipedia maintenance.^[22]

Wikimedia Commons has over 421,000 images with more than 50 megapixels.^[23] Almost 21,000 files are over 1 GB, the bigger ones (5 GB) are mostly films from the silent era.^[24] The largest image is a 20th-century map of Vienna (3.94 GB).^{[25] [26]}

Source: Wikiscan

As of 2026, the English Wikipedia has 8.4 million talk pages for articles.^[16] The figure is greater than the number of articles mainly because the archival system creates multiple talk pages for some pages when the size is too big. There are also pages which don't count as articles, including redirects and disambiguation pages.

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.^[27]

Source: Wikiscan

As of 2026, the English Wikipedia has 11.8 million redirects to articles.^[16] 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 7,000 redirects.^[28]

Source: Wikiscan

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.

In 2025, people from all over the world made 517 million edits to Wikimedia projects.^[29] Wikipedia (in all languages) received 172 million edits^[30] and the English Wikipedia 62 million edits.^[31]

In the last years, around 11–13% of edits are mobile edits and 6–10% are done using VisualEditor.^[32] Roughly, about 4–6% of all edits are reverts.^[33]

Source: Wikiscan

Source: Wikiscan

Considering all Wikimedia projects, around 16 edits are submitted every second, over a third of them are done by bots.

Source: Wikimedia Statistics

• Page views of Wikimedia projects (incl. all language versions) in April 2026[34]
  Page views of Wikimedia projects (incl. all language versions) in April 2026^[34]
• Page views of Wikimedia projects (incl. all language versions) per capita in April 2026[34][35]
  Page views of Wikimedia projects (incl. all language versions) per capita in April 2026^{[34] [35]}

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 almost 10,000 page views every second. The most page views for Wikimedia projects come from users in the United States, Japan, Germany and the United Kingdom.^[36] The most page views for Wikimedia projects per capita come from the Seychelles, Singapore, Finland and Estonia.^{[34] [35]}

Particularly, the English Wikipedia had 130 billion page views in 2024. As of April 2026, the most views for the English Wikipedia come from the United States, the United Kingdom, India and Canada.^[39] The most page views per capita come from Ireland, the Isle of Man and the United Kingdom. The most page views per capita from a non-English speaking country come from Vatican City, Iceland and Finland.^{[40] [35]}

• Page views of the English Wikipedia by country (March 2026)[40]
  Page views of the English Wikipedia by country (March 2026)^[40]
• Page views of the English Wikipedia per capita (April 2026)[40][35]
  Page views of the English Wikipedia per capita (April 2026)^{[40] [35]}

The most viewed articles of a year reflect current events. It is shaped by the geographical precedence of each Wikipedia visitors and their interests. For example, in Spanish Wikipedia none of the ten most viewed articles in 2024 were about the United States elections, with the Spanish-language article on Donald Trump being in the 31st position and Kamala Harris in the 68th.^[42]

The 10 most viewed articles between 2007 and 2022 were United States, Donald Trump, Elizabeth II, India, Barack Obama, Cristiano Ronaldo, World War II, United Kingdom, Michael Jackson and Elon Musk.^[a]

The least viewed articles mostly cover these topics: a species, a small locality, a person's name, a river or stream, or an athlete.^[44]

Between 2021 and 2024, ST47ProxyBot blocked millions of open proxies.^[46]

Source: Wikiscan

On average, in the last years around 15–20 thousand protections to articles are done annually.^[47] From the beginning of the English Wikipedia, articles have received over 439,000 protections.^[47] The second and third most protected namespaces are templates (57,000 protections) and user talk pages (48,000 protections).^[47]

Source: Wikiscan

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.^[48]

Source: Wikiscan

As of 2026, featured articles comprise 6,879 out of a total of 7.1 million articles on the English Wikipedia (about 0.1% or one out of every 1,030 articles). There are 4,758 featured lists and 8,642 featured pictures too.

As of 2026, about a third of articles are marked as stubs.^[51]

A vital article covers a subject that the Wikipedia community has decided most deserves a high-quality article in the encyclopedia. As of 2026, the level 1 vital articles are The arts, Earth, Human, Human history, Life, Mathematics, Philosophy, Science, Society and Technology.

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

As of 2026, the English Wikipedia has around 417,000 encyclopedic biographies about women, while having over 1.6 million about men.^[58]

• 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 (not to be confused with Wikimedia projects) are a group of contributors who want to work together as a team to improve a certain part of Wikipedia. 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.^[59]

As of 2026, 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.^[60]

As of May 2026, there are:

• 410,066 articles with dead external links
• 119,782 biographical articles about living persons needing more references
• 22,876 articles with a promotional tone
• 13,293 articles needing factual verification
• 5,848 pages that need a references clean up
• 2,845 biographies without "blp" parameter
• 1,329 articles needing expert attention
• 885 unreviewed good article nominations
• 885 self-contradictory articles
• 400 Wikipedia files with disputed copyright information

Users who contribute to Wikipedia by editing its pages are Wikipedians, unlike readers who simply read the articles. The term "active editor" means registered, non-bot editors with five or more edits in a given month, including on redirect pages.^[63]

• Number of editors on the English Wikipedia[64]
  Number of editors on the English Wikipedia^[64]
• Number of active editors on the English Wikipedia[65]
  Number of active editors on the English Wikipedia^[65]

The most active editors are in the United States. The most active editors per capita are in Ireland, Iceland and United Kingdom.^[c] The most active editors per capita in a non-English speaking country are in Iceland, Estonia and Cyprus.^{[c] [66] [35]}

• Number of active editors on the English Wikipedia by country[66]
  Number of active editors on the English Wikipedia by country^[66]
• Number of active editors on the English Wikipedia per 1 million inhabitants[66][35]
  Number of active editors on the English Wikipedia per 1 million inhabitants^{[66] [35]}

As of 2026, over 12.4 million users have edited the English Wikipedia at least once.^[2] The number of users with more than 5 edits are 3.7 million (37,167 in the last month).^[2]

• Reasons for starting to contribute[67]
  Reasons for starting to contribute^[67]
• Reasons for continuing to contribute[67]
  Reasons for continuing to contribute^[67]
• Reasons that discourage contributing on Wikipedia[67]
  Reasons that discourage contributing on Wikipedia^[67]

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

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 the English Wikipedia with more than 1000 hits and Wikipedia namespace
• 2004 February – Pages from the 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 (archived 2012) – 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 Statistics
• Erik Zachte's site
• 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.

• Wikipedia information pages
• Wikipedia statistics
• Wikipedia pageviews

• Pages using the EasyTimeline extension
• Pages using the Chart extension