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. For mathematical science WikiProject, see
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information page
It is not one of
Wikipedia's policies or guidelines
, rather, its purpose is to explain certain aspects of Wikipedia's norms or practices. It may reflect varying levels of
consensus
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General info
Status statistics
WikiStats project
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General statistics
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Size comparisons
Growth
Records
Zipf's law comparison
Breakdowns
Editors by number of edits
Editors by article count
Time between edits
Administrator actions
Notes
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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.
The
English Wikipedia
receives an average of over 2 edits and more than 4,500 page views every second.
note 2
As of April 2026, the English Wikipedia includes 7,172,417 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.
The number of users who have made more than 5 edits are 3.7 million (37,167 in the last month).
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
Summary
edit
English Wikipedia
(update)
Item
Count
Articles
7,172,417
Pages
65,501,295
Files
966,692
Edits
1,346,069,114
Users
52,494,298
Admins
811
Editors
276,294
note 4
As of 2026, there are
838 active
Wikimedia projects of a total of 1032.
Of these active projects,
331 are Wikipedias
and
169 are Wiktionaries
. The largest projects are
Wikimedia Commons
(139,915,495 files)
and
Wikidata
(121,606,966 items).
The largest Wikipedia is the
language edition (7,172,417 articles). It is followed by the
Cebuano
(6,115,191 articles) and
German
(3,115,797 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
Project(s)
Articles
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Editors
Files
English Wikipedia
7,172,417
65,501,295
1,346,069,114
811
52,494,298
276,294
966,692
All active Wikipedias
67,179,543
267,403,087
3,867,792,760
3,395
129,465,997
633,376
2,906,041
English Wiktionary
8,798,590
10,760,240
90,287,139
76
4,418,274
4,917
19
All active Wiktionaries
48,272,518
58,385,753
322,415,224
525
7,844,588
10,490
2,068
English Wikiquote
65,402
234,642
3,910,953
15
3,311,398
1,237
All active Wikiquotes
372,678
1,213,058
12,066,283
189
4,467,087
3,242
1,348
English Wikibooks
97,887
295,506
4,457,886
11
3,571,036
537
2,463
All active Wikibooks
356,772
1,258,443
12,963,791
180
4,878,263
1,812
39,262
English Wikinews
22,235
2,978,480
5,005,931
18
2,951,436
227
3,343
All active Wikinews
1,743,827
6,803,361
32,588,433
121
3,446,105
870
5,085
English Wikisource
1,100,639
4,744,575
15,897,110
19
3,256,587
868
16,623
All active Wikisources
6,804,453
22,450,099
75,365,801
316
5,261,291
3,796
79,422
English Wikivoyage
34,076
180,259
5,261,805
34
2,393,481
1,068
1,908
All active Wikivoyages
145,012
641,294
11,326,353
111
2,789,057
1,993
20,863
English Wikiversity
37,500
242,688
2,774,860
10
3,066,099
329
41,710
All active Wikiversities
164,943
643,764
6,938,472
67
3,542,271
1,009
45,309
Wikispecies
943,572
2,180,009
11,046,880
22
2,984,338
331
Wikimedia Commons
131,862,975
179,348,407
1,201,291,631
169
14,317,901
41,658
139,915,495
Wikidata
121,606,966
127,253,187
2,483,734,028
66
7,625,406
41,700
All Wikimedia projects
379,838,236
684,198,803
8,080,010,188
5,530
238,974,681
746,957
143,019,806
Source:
commons:Data:Wikipedia statistics/data.tab
Comparison of Wikipedias by number of articles.
English Wikipedia
(10.7%)
Cebuano Wikipedia
(9.10%)
German Wikipedia
(4.60%)
French Wikipedia
(4.10%)
Swedish Wikipedia
(3.90%)
Dutch Wikipedia
(3.30%)
Russian Wikipedia
(3.10%)
Spanish Wikipedia
(3.10%)
Other 300+ languages (58.1%)
Comparison of English-language sister projects by number of edits, excluding Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.
English Wiktionary
(70.8%)
English Wikisource
(12.5%)
English Wikivoyage
(4.10%)
English Wikinews
(3.90%)
English Wikibooks
(3.50%)
English Wikiquote
(3.10%)
English Wikiversity
(2.20%)
Statistics by namespace
edit
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 65,501,295 pages. The current text content in all its pages is about 166
GB
in size.
When counting all the revisions in histories, the size is 28,593
GB
(28
TB
).
All this data is publicly available and can be downloaded from the Wikimedia Downloads site in different compression formats (7z, bz2).
Articles
edit
English Wikipedia
(111 GB)
English Wikisource
(17 GB)
English Wiktionary
(7 GB)
English Wikibooks
(5 GB)
English Wikiversity
(2 GB)
English Wikiquote
(<1 GB)
English Wikivoyage
(<1 GB)
English Wikinews
(<1 GB)
Use Kiwix as reader
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source data
As of 2026, the English Wikipedia has 7,172,417
articles
which have received 872 million edits from 12.4 million users since the project's inception.
The current text content in all its articles is about 63
GB
in size.
The
Kiwix
version (an offline reader) of the English Wikipedia including images is around 100
GB
after applying some optimization and compression.
As of 2026, the longest article is
Japanese conjugation (mizenkei base)
with 787,887 bytes
and the most edited is
List of WWE personnel
with over 59,000 edits.
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There are bigger pages with over 2.5 MB in size
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and 2 million edits
12
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.
13
In 2025, 4,419,658,359 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. 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
Categories
edit
As of 2026, the English Wikipedia has 2.6 million
categories
15
The page with most categories is
List of ISO 639-2 codes
with 405 categories.
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The categories with most pages are related to Wikipedia maintenance.
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Source:
Wikiscan
Images and files
edit
All geolocated images in
Wikimedia Commons
as of 2017
Wikimedia Commons
is the main media repository for Wikimedia projects. As of 2026, the repository contains 139,915,495 free-to-use media
files
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or around 924
TB
19
The English Wikipedia allows uploading files locally, though they must comply with the non-free content criteria, having 966,692 files to date.
20
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).
19
The most linked images are related to Wikipedia maintenance.
21
Wikimedia Commons has over 421,000 images with more than 50 megapixels.
22
Almost 21,000 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
Source:
Wikiscan
Talk pages
edit
As of 2026, the English Wikipedia has 8.4 million
talk pages
for articles.
15
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.
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Source:
Wikiscan
Redirects
edit
As of 2026, the English Wikipedia has 11.8 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 7,000 redirects.
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Source:
Wikiscan
Statistics by action
edit
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
edit
In 2025, people from all over the world made 517 million edits to Wikimedia projects.
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Wikipedia (in all languages) received 172 million edits
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and the English Wikipedia 62 million edits.
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In the last years, around 11–13% of edits are
mobile edits
and 6–10% are done using
VisualEditor
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Roughly, about 4–6% of all edits are
reverts
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Source:
Wikiscan
Considering all Wikimedia projects, around 16 edits are submitted every second, over a third of them are done by
bots
Project
Edits in 2025
Edits by humans in 2025
Edits by bots in 2025
English Wikipedia
62 million (1.9 edits/sec)
51 million (1.6 edits/sec)
11 million (0.3 edits/sec)
All active Wikipedias
172 million (5.4 edits/sec)
125 million (3.9 edits/sec)
47 million (1.4 edits/sec)
All Wikimedia projects
517 million (16.3 edits/sec)
316 million (10.0 edits/sec)
201 million (6.3 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
quarry.wmcloud.org
Ranking
Most edited pages (including other namespaces) in the past month
Active
stats.wikimedia.org
Page
Interactive tool
Active
wiki4trends
Ranking
Statistics regarding the development of pageviews and edits over time. Field of interest is public it but the source code is available open source and can be customized.
Active
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
Most frequently edited pages
Page
Inactive since May 2008.
Inactive
Page views
edit
Shortcuts
WP:VIEWSSTATS
WP:VIEWSSTATS
WP:MVA
WP:MVA
Wikimedia projects had 296 billion page views in 2024 (24 billion in December 2024).
Wikipedia page views by platform
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.
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Particularly, the 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.
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Yearly most viewed articles of the English Wikipedia
35
Year
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
2017
Deaths in 2017
Darth Vader
Donald Trump
XXX
Elizabeth II
2018
Deaths in 2018
2018 FIFA World Cup
Avengers: Infinity War
Louis Tomlinson
Darth Vader
2019
Avengers: Endgame
Deaths in 2019
Wikipedia
Ted Bundy
Freddie Mercury
2020
Donald Trump
Deaths in 2020
2019–20 coronavirus pandemic
Kamala Harris
Joe Biden
2021
Deaths in 2021
Elon Musk
Elizabeth II
Squid Game
2022
Jeffrey Dahmer
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Deaths in 2022
2022 FIFA World Cup
Elizabeth II
2023
ChatGPT
Deaths in 2023
2023 Cricket World Cup
Indian Premier League
Oppenheimer (film)
2024
Deaths in 2024
2024 United States presidential election
Kamala Harris
Donald Trump
2025
Deaths in 2025
Charlie Kirk
ChatGPT
Ed Gein
Donald Trump
The most viewed articles reflect current events. 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 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.
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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. Less than 30% of articles average one page view per day. 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.
Estimating relative popularity based on annual page views (2023 data)
Annual page views
10
100
1,000
10,000
100,000
Percentile rank
<20th percentile
40th
55th
80th
95th
99th
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
wiki4trends
Ranking
Statistics regarding the development of pageviews and edits over time. Field of interest is public it but the source code is available open source and can be customized.
Active
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
Wikipedia:Popular pages
Ranking
Top-100 list of most viewed pages for 2007–2023
Inactive
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
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
edit
Between 2021 and 2024,
ST47ProxyBot
blocked millions of
open proxies
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Source:
Wikiscan
Protections
edit
On average, in the last years around 15–20 thousand protections to articles are done annually.
38
From the beginning of the English Wikipedia, articles have received over 439,000 protections.
38
The second and third most protected namespaces are templates (57,000 protections) and user talk pages (48,000 protections).
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Source:
Wikiscan
Deletions
edit
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.
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Source:
Wikiscan
New page review
edit
NPP backlog
Articles
18497
↓161
Oldest article
17 years old
Redirects
27830
Oldest redirect
6 months old
Article reviews
1908
Redirect reviews
2919
There is a
very large
articles backlog
The articles backlog is
growing rapidly
(↑679 since last week)
There is a
very large
redirects backlog
Data provided by
DatBot
and
MusikBot
. Last updated 8 hours ago.
View
source data
Quality
edit
Featured content
edit
As of 2026,
featured articles
comprise 6,879 out of a total of 7,150,440 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 half of articles are marked as
stubs
. The median article contains about 300–350 words, or 13 sentences. About half of articles contain four or fewer
references
. In addition, these articles may have images (usually zero or one), an infobox, or
list
content.
All articles by quality and importance
Quality
Importance
Top
High
Mid
Low
???
Total
FA
1,651
2,619
2,496
2,127
187
9,080
FL
193
687
784
699
99
2,462
375
700
808
612
111
2,606
GA
3,480
7,962
16,013
22,188
1,909
51,552
18,133
35,608
59,734
84,043
27,620
225,138
18,025
58,646
149,505
370,016
107,283
703,475
Start
18,747
95,605
436,027
1,810,468
446,876
2,807,723
Stub
4,055
30,676
274,289
2,898,419
792,436
3,999,875
List
5,237
18,405
57,153
222,693
99,506
402,994
Assessed
69,896
250,908
996,809
5,411,265
1,476,027
8,204,905
Unassessed
110
392
980
13,044
324,456
338,982
Total
70,006
251,300
997,789
5,424,309
1,800,483
8,543,887
Articles in this table may be listed in multiple projects. The counts, especially the total article count, is not a count of the total number of articles in English Wikipedia.
About this table
See also:
WP:Good article statistics
Total number of Good Articles and Featured Articles
View
source data
Biases
edit
Gender gap
in biographies in the English Wikipedia as of January 2025.
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Males (79.8%)
Females (20.0%)
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.
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Vandalism
edit
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
edit
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.
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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
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Users
edit
Number of editors on the English Wikipedia
43
Number of active editors on the English Wikipedia
44
Active editors of the English Wikipedia by country
45
Users who contribute to Wikipedia by editing its pages are
Wikipedians
, unlike
readers
who simply read the articles. The term "active users" means registered, non-bot editors with five or more edits in a given month, including on redirect pages.
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As of 2026, over 12.4 million users have edited the English Wikipedia at least once.
The number of users with more than 5 edits are 3.7 million (37,167 in the last month).
This section
needs expansion
. You can help by
adding missing information
Visualization tools
edit
Tool
Topic
Code
Description
Image
Quarry
Databases
Query Wikimedia projects databases.
mediawiki-utilities
Data processing
GitHub
A set of utilities for accessing and processing MediaWiki data, including XML dumps
pywikibot
Bots
GitHub
Python library and collection of tools that automate work on MediaWiki sites.
WikiShark
Page views
WikiShark enables the viewing and comparison of pageview traffic data from the years 2008–present. 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.
wiki4trends
Edits
Page views, edits, content, links, creation date, categories
GitLab
Numbers and graphs based upon different metrics. Updated monthly. Field of interest is public it but the source code is available open source and can be customized.
analytics.wikimedia.org
site views, user agents
The website provides:
User Agent Breakdowns
grouping results by operating system and browser
vital-signs
total views for different Wikipedia sites
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.
Wikistats1
(historical)
Edits
Erik Zachte
's statistics for all projects and all languages. Historical information captured monthly until 31 January 2019. Replaced by
Wikistats2
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.
WikiChecker
(broken)
Edits
Actuality of Wikipedia based on last edits, ranking by users and pages. Edit-war detector and more.
Wikistats2
(broken)
Edits
Page views
GitHub
Numbers and graphs for several core metrics, updated monthly with data and newer features added quarterly.
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.
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.
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Datasets
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Main page:
Wikipedia:Pageview statistics
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
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:
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
Archived analysis
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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.
See also
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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
Notes
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Estimate:
517 million edits
and
329 billion page views
in 2025 divided by (86,400 sec/day * 365 days).
Estimate:
62 million edits
and
144 billion page views
in 2025 divided by (86,400 sec/day * 365 days).
Estimate: 4,419,658,359 bytes in 2025 added to article namespace divided by 365 days. (
Wikiscan - Diff
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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meta:List of Wikimedia projects by size
Wikiscan - English Wikipedia
meta:Which projects are active?
- Only projects that have 100 articles or more are considered to be active
commons:Special:Statistics
d:Special:Statistics
Wikimedia Downloads
Quarry query: English Wikipedia articles size in gigabytes
Kiwix Library
Special:LongPages
Special:MostRevisions
Wikipedia:Database reports/Long pages
Wikipedia:Database reports/Pages with the most revisions
Wikiscan - Creations in English Wikipedia
Wikiscan - Diff
Wikipedia:Database reports/Page count by namespace
Special:MostCategories
Special:MostLinkedCategories
commons:Special:Statistics
commons:Special:MediaStatistics
Special:MediaStatistics
Special:MostLinkedFiles
commons:Category:Large images
Quarry: Wikimedia Commons files by size
Quarry: Largest images in Wikimedia Commons
commons:File:Vienna-big.tif
Wikiscan - Edits by users (humans) to talk pages
Wikipedia:Database reports/Articles with the most redirects
Wikimedia Statistics - All wikis - 2025
Wikimedia Statistics - All Wikipedias - 2025
Wikimedia Statistics - English Wikipedia - 2025
Wikiscan - Tags
Wikiscan - Reverts
Wikimedia Statistics - Monthly overview - All wikis
Wikimedia Statistics - Monthly overview (en.wikipedia.org)
"Topviews Analysis"
pageviews.wmcloud.org
. Retrieved
2026-04-22
Topviews Analysis (es.wikipedia.org)
Wikiscan - ST47ProxyBot
Wikiscan - Protections in namespace 0
Wikiscan - Deletions
Humaniki - Wikimedia Diversity Dashboard Tool
Wikipedia:Database reports/WikiProject watchers
Wikipedia:Database reports/WikiProjects by changes
"Wikistats - Number of editors"
stats.wikimedia.org
. Retrieved
2026-04-22
"Wikistats - Number of active editors"
stats.wikimedia.org
. Retrieved
2026-04-22
"Wikistats - Active editors by country"
stats.wikimedia.org
. Retrieved
2026-04-22
"Research:Wikistats metrics/Active editors - Meta-Wiki"
meta.wikimedia.org
. Retrieved
2026-04-22
External links
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Wikimedia Statistics
Erik Zachte's site
Wikimedia Foundation analytics team
pages on MediaWiki.org, with e.g.
definitions
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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.
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