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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.[note 1] There are Wikipedias in over 300 different languages and hundreds of sister projects.[1]

Specifically, English Wikipedia receives 2 edits and more than 4,000 page views every second.[note 2] As of January 2025, English Wikipedia includes 6,942,572 articles and it averages around 500 new articles per day. Around 11 MB of encyclopedic text is added to the articles on a daily basis (4 GB in a year).[note 3] Since its inception, over 11.9 million users have edited English Wikipedia at least once.[2] The number of users who have made more than 5 edits are 3.6 million (37,750 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 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.

Summary

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English Wikipedia (update)
Item Count
Articles 6,942,572
Pages 62,302,946
Files 931,870
Edits 1,265,965,574
Users 48,580,428
Admins 847
Active users 117,824[note 4]

As of 2025, there are 838 active Wikimedia projects of a total of 1032.[3] Of these active projects, 338 are Wikipedias and 171 are Wiktionaries. The largest projects are Wikidata (115,015,824 items)[4] and Wikimedia Commons (112,992,208 files).[5]

The largest Wikipedia is the English language edition (6,942,572 articles). It is followed by the Cebuano (6,116,834 articles) and German (2,979,937 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.

Project(s) Articles All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
English Wikipedia 6,942,572 62,302,946 1,265,965,574 847 48,580,428 117,824 931,870
All active Wikipedias 64,299,345 268,262,640 3,646,589,396 3,500 117,409,889 291,612 2,839,447
English Wiktionary 8,305,504 9,939,093 83,631,007 75 4,247,098 2,406 16
All active Wiktionaries 42,846,939 51,983,637 299,337,348 530 7,451,076 6,979 2,134
English Wikiquote 55,600 216,748 3,630,688 15 3,209,123 536 0
All active Wikiquotes 343,529 1,140,762 11,363,825 194 4,306,654 2,032 1,359
English Wikibooks 97,798 291,961 4,321,261 11 3,484,458 292 2,652
All active Wikibooks 386,429 1,284,317 12,346,478 183 4,747,013 1,654 43,129
English Wikinews 22,025 2,904,682 4,829,950 18 2,883,324 143 3,506
All active Wikinews 1,760,803 17,657,065 31,160,967 119 3,354,710 771 5,111
English Wikisource 1,088,283 4,524,101 14,800,927 22 3,153,023 484 16,230
All active Wikisources 6,325,677 20,915,207 69,329,299 315 4,998,427 3,064 79,538
English Wikivoyage 32,996 174,157 5,004,756 34 2,318,608 527 1,824
All active Wikivoyages 140,228 622,116 10,634,982 110 2,686,254 1,235 19,510
English Wikiversity 37,068 236,629 2,664,812 10 2,994,396 198 39,962
All active Wikiversities 159,030 604,392 6,202,246 63 3,396,255 709 43,813
Wikispecies 900,260 2,029,217 10,473,316 23 2,918,505 247 0
Wikimedia Commons 108,581,949 148,388,655 984,294,011 181 13,168,707 35,001 112,992,208
Wikidata 115,015,824 120,229,443 2,299,883,247 72 6,815,783 23,892 0
All Wikimedia projects 341,093,970 649,160,580 7,420,565,057 5,646 217,138,025 371,180 116,032,109

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

Statistics by namespace

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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 2025, English Wikipedia has 62,302,946 pages. The current text content in all its pages is about 156 GB in size.[2] When counting all the revisions in histories, the size is 26,455 GB (26 TB).[2] All this data is publicly available and can be downloaded from the Wikimedia Downloads site in different compression formats (7z, bz2).[6]

Articles

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As of 2025, English Wikipedia has 6,942,572 articles which have received 825 million edits from 11.9 million users since the project's inception.[2] The current text content in all its articles is about 58 GB in size.[7] The Kiwix version (an offline reader) of the English Wikipedia including images is 109 GB after applying some optimization and compression.[8]

As of January 2025, the longest article is Opinion polling for the 2024 United Kingdom general election with 691,567 bytes[9] and the most edited is List of WWE personnel with over 58,000 edits.[10] There are bigger pages with over 3 MB in size[11] and 2 million edits[12] 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.[13]

In 2024, 4,315,904,087 bytes of encyclopedic text was added to articles, or around 11 MB of text every day.[14] An average English book volume of 500 pages and 2,000 characters per page fits in 1 MB. So, Wikipedia editors add 11 book volumes every day to the encyclopedia.

Source: Wikiscan

Categories

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As of 2025, English Wikipedia has 2.4 million categories.[15] The page with most categories is List of ISO 639-2 codes with 354 categories.[16] The categories with most pages are related to Wikipedia maintenance.[17]

Source: Wikiscan

Images and files

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All geolocated images in Wikimedia Commons.

Wikimedia Commons is the main media repository for Wikimedia projects. As of 2025, the repository contains 112,992,208 free-to-use media files[18] or around 585 TB.[19] English Wikipedia allows uploading files locally, though they must comply with the non-free content criteria, having 931,870 files to date.[20]

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).[19] The most linked images are related to Wikipedia maintenance.[21]

Wikimedia Commons has over 270,000 images with more than 50 megapixels.[22] Almost 10,000 files are over 1 GB, the bigger ones (5 GB) are mostly films from the silent era.[23] The largest image is a 20th-century map of Vienna (3.94 GB).[24][25]

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

Source: Wikiscan

Talk pages

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As of 2025, English Wikipedia has 8.1 million talk pages for articles.[15] 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.[26]

Source: Wikiscan

Redirects

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As of 2025, English Wikipedia has 11.2 million redirects to articles.[15] 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.[27]

Source: Wikiscan

Statistics by action

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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

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In 2024, people from all over the world did 597 million edits to Wikimedia projects.[28] Wikipedia (in all languages) received 180 million edits[29] and English Wikipedia 72 million edits.[30]

In the last years, around 11-13% of edits are mobile edits and 6-8% are done using VisualEditor.[31] Roughly, about 4-5% of all edits are reverts.[32]

Source: Wikiscan

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

Project Edits in 2024 Edits by humans in 2024 Edits by bots in 2024
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

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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.[33]

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.[34]

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).[35] 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.[36]

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.[citation needed]

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

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Between 2021 and 2024, ST47ProxyBot blocked millions of open proxies.[37]

Source: Wikiscan

Protections

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On average, in the last years around 15-20 thousand protections to articles are done annually.[38] From the beginning of English Wikipedia, articles have received over 416,000 protections.[38] The second and third most protected namespaces are templates (56,000 protections) and user talk pages (47,000 protections).[38]

Source: Wikiscan

Deletions

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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.[39]

Source: Wikiscan

Quality

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Featured content

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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.)[citation needed]

Vandalism

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Wikiprojects

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All rated articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low ??? Total
FA 1,585 2,525 2,424 1,985 186 8,705
FL 181 702 773 694 100 2,450
A 372 685 790 580 91 2,518
GA 3,287 7,464 14,965 20,045 1,783 47,544
B 17,215 33,368 55,280 71,773 23,787 201,423
C 17,193 55,034 137,796 320,503 93,512 624,038
Start 18,566 93,230 420,340 1,657,148 416,949 2,606,233
Stub 4,235 31,288 277,069 2,814,830 760,056 3,887,478
List 4,954 17,489 54,908 204,359 82,223 363,933
Assessed 67,588 241,785 964,345 5,091,917 1,378,687 7,744,322
Unassessed 114 412 992 16,346 389,947 407,811
Total 67,702 242,197 965,337 5,108,263 1,768,634 8,152,133
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.[40]

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.[41]

Users

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Users who contribute to Wikipedia by editing its pages are wikipedians, unlike readers who simply read the articles.

As of January 2025, over 11.9 million users have edited English Wikipedia at least once.[2] The number of users with more than 5 edits are 3.6 million (37,750 in the last month).[2]

Tools

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Frameworks

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

Visualizations

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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. WikiShark is an online tool which enables the viewing and comparison of Wikipedia traffic data
Listen to Wikipedia Edits GitHub Visual and audio illustration of live editing activity on Wikipedia. Listen to 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. Page views statistics for an article
WikiChecker (broken) Edits Actuality of Wikipedia based on last edits, ranking by users and pages. Edit-war detector and more. User edits by day of week and hour
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. Wikipedia statistics
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. Wikipulse
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. Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 stats
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. Gender gap statistics
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. 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 1 billionth edit took place on April 16, 2010

The analytics.wikimedia.org site provides

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wikimedia page view statistics.

Datasets

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Main page: Wikipedia:Pageview statistics

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

Archived statistics

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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:

Archived analysis

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See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Estimate: 597 million edits and 296 billion page views in 2024 divided by (86,400 sec/day * 365 days).
  2. ^ Estimate: 72 million edits and 130 billion page views in 2024 divided by (86,400 sec/day * 365 days).
  3. ^ Estimate: 4,315,904,087 bytes in 2024 added to article namespace divided by 365 days. (Wikiscan - Diff)
  4. ^ Registered users who have performed an action in the last 30 days; the number of unregistered active users is not compiled

References

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  1. ^ meta:List of Wikimedia projects by size
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Wikiscan - English Wikipedia
  3. ^ meta:Which projects are active? - Only projects that have 100 articles or more are considered to be active
  4. ^ d:Special:Statistics
  5. ^ commons:Special:Statistics
  6. ^ Wikimedia Downloads
  7. ^ Quarry query: English Wikipedia articles size in gigabytes
  8. ^ Kiwix Library
  9. ^ Special:LongPages
  10. ^ Special:MostRevisions
  11. ^ Wikipedia:Database reports/Long pages
  12. ^ Wikipedia:Database reports/Pages with the most revisions
  13. ^ Wikiscan - Creations in English Wikipedia
  14. ^ Wikiscan - Diff
  15. ^ a b c Wikipedia:Database reports/Page count by namespace
  16. ^ Special:MostCategories
  17. ^ Special:MostLinkedCategories
  18. ^ commons:Special:Statistics
  19. ^ a b commons:Special:MediaStatistics
  20. ^ Special:MediaStatistics
  21. ^ Special:MostLinkedFiles
  22. ^ commons:Category:Large images
  23. ^ Quarry: Wikimedia Commons files by size
  24. ^ Quarry: Largest images in Wikimedia Commons
  25. ^ commons:File:Vienna-big.tif
  26. ^ Wikiscan - Edits by users (humans) to talk pages
  27. ^ Wikipedia:Database reports/Articles with the most redirects
  28. ^ Wikimedia Statistics - All wikis - 2024
  29. ^ Wikimedia Statistics - All Wikipedias - 2024
  30. ^ Wikimedia Statistics - English Wikipedia - 2024
  31. ^ Wikiscan - Tags
  32. ^ Wikiscan - Reverts
  33. ^ Wikimedia Statistics - Monthly overview - All wikis
  34. ^ Wikimedia Statistics - Monthly overview (en.wikipedia.org)
  35. ^ Topviews Analysis (en.wikipedia.org)
  36. ^ Topviews Analysis (es.wikipedia.org)
  37. ^ Wikiscan - ST47ProxyBot
  38. ^ a b c Wikiscan - Protections in namespace 0
  39. ^ Wikiscan - Deletions
  40. ^ Wikipedia:Database reports/WikiProject watchers
  41. ^ Wikipedia:Database reports/WikiProjects by changes
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to English Wikipedia statistics.
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