Wikipedia:Statistics

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WP:STAT and WP:STATS link here. This page lists sources of statistics about Wikipedia. For the WikiProject on the mathematical science of statistics, see WikiProject Statistics. For the status page, see Special:Statistics. For guidelines concerning the use of statistical information in articles see WP:NOT#STATS. For information of pageview statistics, see Help:Pageview stats.

At a rate of 600 words a minute, twenty-four hours a day, a person could read nearly 27,000,000 words in a month. In the month of July 2006, Wikipedia grew by over 30,000,000 words. Given this, it is unlikely for any single reader to read all of Wikipedia's new content. Reading the current incarnation at that rate would take over seven years, and by the time they were done, so much would have changed with the parts they had already read that they would have to start over. Therefore, the best way to get an idea of the bigger picture is with statistics.

The available statistics cover 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.

Automatically updated statistics

• Special:Statistics – a page that reports the current number of articles, which can also be seen wherever the MediaWiki feature {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} is used. Also recorded are the total number of pages overall, the number of edits and edits per page, and the number of registered users and administrators, along with links to other statistics pages.
• Wikipedia:Database reports – a page that contains an index of automatically generated reports about the project.
• Automatically updated statistics showing requests and traffic across all Wikimedia clusters:

Requests	hourly	daily	weekly	monthly	yearly
Traffic	hourly	daily	weekly	monthly	yearly

• WikiRoll Ranking of most popular Wikipedia articles.(For popular languages. Statistics for: day, week, month, year. Updates few times a day..)
• toolserver.org/~emw/wikistats/ – article traffic statistics, incorporating features often requested for stats.grok.se
• stats.grok.se – article traffic statistics. Often not updated to make recent months selectable from the drop-down list. The work-around is to select statistics for any available month, and then edit the URL to specify the wanted month.
• Wikipedia's reach, traffic and ranking compared to other websites – graphs and comparison statistics provided by Alexa Internet
• Wikipedia compared with other sites – graph using the above to compare Wikipedia against various top 10 sites.

The 1 billionth edit took place on April 16, 2010.

• The 1000 most-visited sites on the web - according to Google/DoubleClick.
• Wikistatistics.net page on Wikimedia – automatically daily refreshed article count, edit count etc. graphs of all Wikimedia sites (requires JavaScript).
• WikiChecker – actuality of Wikipedia (edit statistics)
• Wikitrends – Articles with highest recent uptrend, based on page views.
• http://dammit.lt/wikistats/ – raw page access data for all Wikipedia projects, in all languages (see [1])
• Wikimedia projects edits counter – near real-time
• wmcharts – several charts about recent edits, uploads, blocks, deletions, new accounts, reverts, and many more

Manually updated statistics

These are compilations of statistical information that are updated regularly from outside sources.

• Wikipedia is more popular than... – a list of Alexa traffic comparisons

Periodically updated statistics

Manually created chart of English-language Wikipedia Article Count - January 2001-January 2012

A number of statistics have been generated by various people from database downloads, which allow them to analyze the Wikipedia database automatically using various programs and scripts. The frequency of updates varies according to when new downloads are available and how often the maintainers can produce them.

• Wikipedia Statistics Sitemap – Erik Zachte's statistics for all projects and all languages. Updated monthly.
• List of Wikipedians by number of edits – 8,000 editors with highest editcounts updated weekly.
  • User:Emijrp/List of Wikipedians by number of edits – 1,000 editors with highest edit counts, updated daily. It uses the user_editcount value from the user table
  • meta:List of Wikimedians by number of edits – Updated daily. It uses the user_editcount value from user table
• List of Wikipedians by number of recent edits – Updated based on data as of 16 January 2011.
• List of Wikipedians by article count – 3,000 editors with highest article counts updated weekly.
• Category:Lists of popular pages by WikiProject
• Wikipedia:Lists of popular pages by WikiProject
• linkypedia (Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-08-16/In the news#In brief)

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:

• 2003 March – List of articles frequently visited through Google
• 2004 February – Pages from English Wikipedia with more than 1000 hits
• 2004 February – Pages from English Wikipedia with more than 1000 hits & Wikipedia namespace
• 2004 March – A whole list of accessed Wikipedia pages: http://wikimedia.org/stats/en.wikipedia.org/url_200403.html (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 April – As above, but updated (now gone)
• 2004 April – Traffic - an old system for measuring traffic
• 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 February/October – Web browsers used to access 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, and instructions on how to read some of the more interesting graphs.
• 2005 October – Wikipedia:Words per article
• 2006 January – Search engine statistics
• 2006 January – Most referenced articles, a list of the articles that are linked to by the greatest number of other articles
• 2006 March – Stub percentages, information on stubs as a percentage of total articles
• 2006 July – WikiProject creation and attrition trends
• 2006 September – Articles which are number 1 for one-word Google searches
• 2007 June – Wikimedia page views (Referrers) "not very scientific, but some might find it interesting"
• 2008 May – Most frequently edited pages – Updated based on data as of 23 May 2008.
• 2008 October – Multilingual statistics – monthly details of total article count, and analysis of the monthly rate of article growth, for each version of Wikipedia.
• 2009 April – User:Bryan/List of users by pages created
• 2009 June – Wikipedia:Vandalism statistics
• 2009 September – THEwikiStics: Page Hits top 1000+ ^long-term(compare traffic | searches) | Logged search terms | popular last hour | Most missed articles
• 2010 January – comScore audience measurement data – analysis of data donated by one of the third-party measurement services
• 2010 May – Awareness statistics – tracking growth in public awareness

Analysis

Graph showing the number of days between every 10,000,000 edits.

• Size of Wikipedia – by count of articles
• Size comparisons – comparison against other encyclopedias and information collections
• Modelling Wikipedia's growth – analysis of the count of articles, attempting to fit mathematical growth models
• User:Emijrp/External Links Ranking – Top 1000 most linked domains from external links as of April 2011 (all namespaces).
• Time between edits – Length of time (measured in days) between each block of 10,000,000 edits made to Wikipedia, starting January 16, 2001 and ending with the most recently completed block (viz., September 12, 2011)
• Article traffic jumps – a place to document unusual jumps in article traffic.

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

• Statistics page for Wikimedia
• Milestones for Wikimedia projects
• Wikipedia:Pools
• Wikipedia:Wikipedia records
• Wikipedia:Statistics Department
• Wikipedia:WikiProject edit counters
• Temporal Analysis of the Wikigraph - Technical Report, 2006.
• Wikipedia's landmarks
• Wikipedia article depth

External links

• http://infodisiac.com/ - Erik Zachte's site
• http://stats.wikimedia.org/ - Wikistats: Wikimedia Statistics