Wikipedia:Statistics

This page lists sources of statistics about Wikipedia. For the WikiProject on the mathematical science of statistics, see WikiProject Statistics.

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You may be looking for Wikipedia guidelines concerning the use of statistical information in articles. This can be found at WP:NOT#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 impossible for any single reader to read all of Wikipedia's new content. Reading the current incarnation at that rate would take over two 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. As a result, sometimes the only 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.
• Automatically updated statistics showing requests and traffic across all Wikimedia clusters:

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

• stats.grok.se — Access statistics for all pages on the English Wikipedia.
• THEwikiStics: Page Hits top 1000+ ^long-term(compare traffic | searches) | Logged search terms | popular last hour | Most missed articles
• 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.
• Wikimedia Projects Graphics Statistics — automatically daily refreshed graphs and CSV based on Special:Statistics RAW output of almost all Wikimedia sites.
• WikiChecker — actuality of Wikipedia (edit statistics)
• Wikitrends — Articles with highest recent uptrend, based on page views.
• WikiRage — lists articles by edit frequency over the last month/week/day/hour.
• Wikirank — Access statistics and ranks for en.wikipedia pages, with graphs and artcle extracts

Manually updated statistics

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

• comScore audience measurement data — analysis of data donated by one of the third-party measurement services
• Awareness statistics — tracking growth in public awareness
• Wikipedia is more popular than... — a list of Alexa traffic comparisons

Periodically updated statistics

Manually created chart of English-language Wikipedia Article Count - Jan 2001-Jan 2008

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. Nearly all stats updated to 29 February 2008 - English-language wikipedia stats are as of 30 October 2006.
• Multilingual statistics — monthly details of total article count, and analysis of the monthly rate of article growth, for each version of Wikipedia.
• List of Wikipedians by number of edits — Updated based on data as of June 10, 2009.
• List of Wikipedians by number of recent edits — Updated based on data as of 23 May 2008.
• Most frequently edited pages — Updated based on data as of 23 May 2008.

Analysis

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

• Size of Wikipedia — focuses on number of articles
• Size comparisons — comparison against other encyclopedias and information collections
• Modelling Wikipedia's growth — analysis of the total number of articles, attempting to fit mathematical growth models
• 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.
• Time between edits — Time in days between each block of 10,000,000 edits to Wikipedia, starting 26 January 2002, ending 24 May 2009.
• Wikipedia:Editing frequency — Statistics on the user editing activity as of September 2008.
• Wikipedia:Article traffic jumps — a place to document unusual jumps in article traffic.

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)

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

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