While you read this page,Wikimedia projects develop at an average rate of over18 edits every second performed by editors from all over the world, while receiving almost10,000 page views every second.[note 1] There are Wikipedias in over 300 different languages and hundreds of sister projects.[1]
TheEnglish Wikipedia receives an average of over 2 edits and more than 4,000 page views every second.[note 2] As of October 2025, the English Wikipedia includes 7,080,911 articles and it averages around500 new articles per day. Around 11MB of encyclopedic text is added to the articles daily (4GB in a year).[note 3] Since its inception, over 11.9 million users have edited the 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 withstatistics. 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 includestools anddatasets 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
The largest Wikipedia is theEnglish language edition (7,080,911 articles). It is followed by theCebuano (6,115,933 articles) andGerman (3,063,471 articles) editions. The Cebuano Wikipedia usesbots to create most of its articles.
Pages are placed in differentnamespaces according to their contents. Encyclopedic pages (articles,lists anddisambiguations) are located in namespace 0 (main),files are in the namespace 6, andcategories are in namespace 14. All namespaces have an associatedtalk page namespace and all of them allowredirects.
As of 2025, the English Wikipedia has 64,336,290 pages. The current text content in all its pages is about 156GB in size.[2] When counting all the revisions in histories, the size is 26,455GB (26TB).[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 2025, the English Wikipedia has 7,080,911articles 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 58GB in size.[7] TheKiwix version (an offline reader) of the English Wikipedia including images is around 100GB after applying some optimization and compression.[8]
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 584,000 new articles created that year.[13]
In 2024, 4,315,904,087 bytes of encyclopedic text was added to articles, or around 11MB 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.
As of 2025, the English Wikipedia has 2.4 millioncategories.[15] The page with most categories isList of ISO 639-2 codes with 354 categories.[16] The categories with most pages are related to Wikipedia maintenance.[17]
Wikimedia Commons is the main media repository for Wikimedia projects. As of 2025, the repository contains 129,079,326 free-to-use mediafiles[18] or around 585TB.[19] The English Wikipedia allows uploading files locally, though they must comply with the non-free content criteria, having 951,569 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 thesilent era.[23] The largest image is a20th-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]
As of 2025, the English Wikipedia has 8.1 milliontalk 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.[26]
As of 2025, the English Wikipedia has 11.2 millionredirects to articles.[15] On average, every article has almost 2 redirects, though the article with most redirects isHangul (the modern writing system for the Korean language) with over 7000 redirects.[27]
The most common actions includeediting articles andreading them. Among the special actions that requiresadmin rights are blocking users, protecting pages and deleting content.
In 2024, people from all over the world made 597 million edits to Wikimedia projects.[28] Wikipedia (in all languages) received 180 million edits[29] and the English Wikipedia 72 million edits.[30]
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.
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 theMilky Way. On average, Wikimedia projects have over 24 billion page views per month, or almost 10,000 page views every second.[33]
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.[34]
Most articles have very low traffic. In 2023, 90% of articles averaged between zero and ten page views per day. Themedian 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, themean is about 100 times the median.
Estimating relative popularity based on annual page views (2023 data)
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.
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 416,000 protections.[38] The second and third most protected namespaces are templates (56,000 protections) and user talk pages (47,000 protections).[38]
In the past several years there has been a decline in mainspace deletions, probably a result ofWikipedia: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.[39]
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 4,548featured lists and 8,199featured pictures too.
As of 2022, the median article is astub. This typically means that it contains a few sentences on the subject. (Elements such as images, infoboxes, and mostlists are not usually counted in this calculation.)[citation needed]
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.
Gender gap in biographies in the English Wikipedia as of January 2025.[40]
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 January 2025, the English Wikipedia has around 400,000 encyclopedic biographies about women, while having over 1.6 million about men.[40]
The English Wikipedia has over 2,000wikiprojects, about 1,000 of which are monitored by 30–2,000 editors, all with varying levels of activity.[41]
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 isWomen in Red.[42]
Users who contribute to Wikipedia by editing its pages areWikipedians, unlikereaders who simply read the articles.
As of January 2025, over 11.9 million users have edited the 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]
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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.
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.
Statistics and graphs about theWiki Loves Monuments photograph contest. Historical information captured until September 2018. It offers metadata files to create your own statistics.
A collection of charts about Wikimedia projects, including activity on recent changes, new pages, deletions, blocks, protections, file uploads, reverts and more.
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.
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 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:
2008 October –Multilingual statistics – monthly details of total article count, and analysis of the monthly rate of article growth, for each version of 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 anrss feed[dead link], and instructions on how to read some of the more interesting graphs.
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.
For a listing of current collaborations, tasks, and news, see theCommunity portal. For a listing of ongoing discussions and current requests, see theDashboard.
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