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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.[1]

The English Wikipedia receives an average of over 2 edits and more than 4,500 page views every second.[note 2] As of May 2026, the English Wikipedia includes 7,188,844 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.[2] The number of users who have made more than 5 edits are 3.7 million (37,167 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 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.

Summary

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English Wikipedia (update)
Item Count
Articles 7,188,844
Pages 65,683,814
Files 969,216
Edits 1,352,235,290
Users 53,053,941
Admins 817
Editors 278,030[note 4]

As of 2026, there are 838 active Wikimedia projects of a total of 1032.[3] Of these active projects, 331 are Wikipedias and 169 are Wiktionaries. The largest projects are Wikimedia Commons (142,431,739 files)[4] and Wikidata (121,979,561 items).[5]

The largest Wikipedia is the English language edition (7,188,844 articles). It is followed by the Cebuano (6,115,346 articles) and German (3,125,686 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 Editors Files
English Wikipedia 7,188,844 65,683,814 1,352,235,290 817 53,053,941 278,030 969,216
All active Wikipedias 67,499,897 268,468,220 3,887,933,300 3,392 130,958,830 633,979 2,913,763
English Wiktionary 8,837,436 10,846,064 90,979,842 76 4,445,548 5,031 19
All active Wiktionaries 48,660,652 58,865,941 324,044,374 522 7,890,110 10,671 2,068
English Wikiquote 65,869 235,597 3,925,894 15 3,331,423 1,209 0
All active Wikiquotes 375,302 1,223,172 12,120,568 191 4,491,722 2,841 1,348
English Wikibooks 98,256 296,113 4,464,020 11 3,590,646 575 2,463
All active Wikibooks 359,793 1,265,950 13,016,780 180 4,903,014 2,116 39,382
English Wikisource 1,104,558 4,771,441 15,985,300 19 3,277,330 655 16,645
All active Wikisources 8,416,071 25,390,755 79,235,684 318 5,295,806 3,647 79,473
English Wikivoyage 34,182 180,760 5,280,792 34 2,412,187 985 1,910
All active Wikivoyages 145,442 642,746 11,368,670 112 2,809,773 1,974 20,882
English Wikiversity 37,274 242,817 2,780,856 12 3,084,309 324 41,984
All active Wikiversities 165,488 645,888 6,963,335 69 3,562,124 1,038 45,583
Wikispecies 947,366 2,190,078 11,101,655 22 3,001,226 314 0
Wikimedia Commons 134,314,199 182,184,745 1,221,867,561 170 14,477,819 41,563 142,431,739
Wikidata 121,979,561 127,653,610 2,499,293,949 66 7,748,553 43,990 0
All Wikimedia projects 384,993,148 689,162,161 8,142,590,359 5,440 241,822,280 749,112 145,544,226

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

Comparison of Wikipedias by number of articles.
  1. English Wikipedia (10.7%)
  2. Cebuano Wikipedia (9.10%)
  3. German Wikipedia (4.60%)
  4. French Wikipedia (4.10%)
  5. Swedish Wikipedia (3.90%)
  6. Dutch Wikipedia (3.30%)
  7. Russian Wikipedia (3.10%)
  8. Spanish Wikipedia (3.10%)
  9. Other 300+ languages (58.1%)
Comparison of English-language sister projects by number of edits, excluding Wikipedia.
  1. Wikidata (64.9%)
  2. Wikimedia Commons (31.7%)
  3. English Wiktionary (2.40%)
  4. English Wikisource (0.40%)
  5. English Wikivoyage (0.10%)
  6. English Wikinews (0.10%)
  7. English Wikibooks (0.10%)
  8. English Wikiquote (0.10%)
  9. English Wikiversity (0.10%)

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 2026, the English Wikipedia has 65,683,814 pages. The current text content in all its pages is about 166 GB in size.[2] When counting all the revisions in histories, the size is 28,593 GB (28 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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Number of Wikipedia articles (thousands)01000200030004000500060007000800011/1/200510/1/20119/1/20178/1/2023Number of Wikipedia articles (thousands)Total number of articles on English Wikipedi...
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As of 2026, the English Wikipedia has 7,188,844 articles which have received 872 million edits from 12.4 million users since the project's inception.[2] The current text content in all its articles is about 63 GB in size.[7] The Kiwix version (an offline reader) of the English Wikipedia including images is around 100 GB after applying some optimization and compression.[8]

The median article contains about 300–350 words, or 13 sentences. About half of articles contain four or fewer references.[9]

As of 2026, the longest article is Japanese conjugation (mizenkei base) with 787,887 bytes[10] and the most edited is List of WWE personnel with over 59,000 edits.[11] There are bigger pages with over 2.5 MB in size[12] and 2 million edits[13] 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.[14]

In 2025, 4,419,658,359 bytes of encyclopedic text was added to articles, or around 11 MB of text every day.[15] 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.

Source: Wikiscan

Categories

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As of 2026, the English Wikipedia has 2.6 million categories.[16] The page with most categories is List of ISO 639-2 codes with 405 categories.[17] The categories with most pages are related to Wikipedia maintenance.[18]

Source: Wikiscan

Images and files

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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 142,431,739 free-to-use media files[19] or around 924 TB.[20] The English Wikipedia allows uploading files locally, though they must comply with the non-free content criteria, having 969,216 files to date.[21]

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).[20] The most linked images are related to Wikipedia maintenance.[22]

Wikimedia Commons has over 421,000 images with more than 50 megapixels.[23] Almost 21,000 files are over 1 GB, the bigger ones (5 GB) are mostly films from the silent era.[24] The largest image is a 20th-century map of Vienna (3.94 GB).[25][26]

Source: Wikiscan

Talk pages

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As of 2026, the English Wikipedia has 8.4 million talk pages for articles.[16] 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.[27]

Source: Wikiscan

Redirects

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As of 2026, the English Wikipedia has 11.8 million redirects to articles.[16] 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.[28]

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 2025, people from all over the world made 517 million edits to Wikimedia projects.[29] Wikipedia (in all languages) received 172 million edits[30] and the English Wikipedia 62 million edits.[31]

In the last years, around 11–13% of edits are mobile edits and 6–10% are done using VisualEditor.[32] Roughly, about 4–6% of all edits are reverts.[33]

Source: Wikiscan

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

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Shortcuts

Wikimedia projects

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  • Page views of Wikimedia projects (incl. all language versions) in April 2026[34]
    Page views of Wikimedia projects (incl. all language versions) in April 2026[34]
  • Page views of Wikimedia projects (incl. all language versions) per capita in April 2026[34][35]
    Page views of Wikimedia projects (incl. all language versions) per capita in April 2026[34][35]

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 almost 10,000 page views every second. The most page views for Wikimedia projects come from users in the United States, Japan, Germany and the United Kingdom.[36] The most page views for Wikimedia projects per capita come from the Seychelles, Singapore, Finland and Estonia.[34][35]

English Wikipedia

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The total page views of the English Wikipedia were fairly constant from 2015 to 2026[37]
Page views of the English Wikipedia by platform[38]

Particularly, the English Wikipedia had 130 billion page views in 2024. As of April 2026, the most views for the English Wikipedia come from the United States, the United Kingdom, India and Canada.[39] The most page views per capita come from Ireland, the Isle of Man and the United Kingdom. The most page views per capita from a non-English speaking country come from Vatican City, Iceland and Finland.[40][35]

  • Page views of the English Wikipedia by country (March 2026)[40]
    Page views of the English Wikipedia by country (March 2026)[40]
  • Page views of the English Wikipedia per capita (April 2026)[40][35]
    Page views of the English Wikipedia per capita (April 2026)[40][35]
Yearly most viewed articles of the English Wikipedia[41]
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 YouTube
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 YouTube 2024 United States presidential election Kamala Harris Donald Trump
2025 Deaths in 2025 Charlie Kirk ChatGPT Ed Gein Donald Trump

The most viewed articles of a year reflect current events. It is shaped by the geographical precedence 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.[42]

The 10 most viewed articles between 2007 and 2022 were United States, Donald Trump, Elizabeth II, India, Barack Obama, Cristiano Ronaldo, World War II, United Kingdom, Michael Jackson and Elon Musk.[a]

A tiny share of articles gets many page views[43]
Daily page views[44] 1 2.2 10 35 100 405 1,000 3,000
Share of articles that have at least ... daily page views 70 % 50% 23 % 10 % 4.5 % 1 % 0.4 % 0.1 %

The least viewed articles mostly cover these topics: a species, a small locality, a person's name, a river or stream, or an athlete.[44]

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 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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Blocked users on the English Wikipedia[45]

Between 2021 and 2024, ST47ProxyBot blocked millions of open proxies.[46]

Source: Wikiscan

Protections

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On average, in the last years around 15–20 thousand protections to articles are done annually.[47] From the beginning of the English Wikipedia, articles have received over 439,000 protections.[47] The second and third most protected namespaces are templates (57,000 protections) and user talk pages (48,000 protections).[47]

Source: Wikiscan

Deletions

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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.[48]


Source: Wikiscan

New page review

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See also: WP:New pages patrol
NPP backlog
Articles
14263 ↑86
Oldest article
10 years old
Redirects
36048
Oldest redirect
5 months old
Article reviews
1962
Redirect reviews
3764
  • There is a very large articles backlog
  • There is a very large redirects backlog

Data provided by DatBot and MusikBot. Last updated 4 hours ago.

# Unreviewed articlesDate0500010,00015,00020,00025,0005/17/20182/8/20211/3/2024valueNew Pages patrol Backlog chart
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Quality

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Featured content

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See also: WP:Featured list statistics
Total number of featured lists by year (in thousands)[49]
Total number of featured pictures by year (in thousands)[50]

As of 2026, featured articles comprise 6,879 out of a total of 7.1 million 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.

See also: WP:Good article statistics
Total number of Good Articles and Featured Articles
010,00020,00030,00040,00050,00011/1/20058/1/20115/1/20172/1/2023Good articlesFeatured articlesTotal number of GAs and FAs
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As of 2026, about a third of articles are marked as stubs.[51]

Total number of stub articles by year (in thousands)[52]
Share of stub articles by year (in %)[52]
All articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low ??? Total
FA 1,658 2,625 2,501 2,139 187 9,110
FL 194 688 789 701 100 2,472
A 375 700 807 613 112 2,607
GA 3,489 7,981 16,068 22,331 1,912 51,781
B 18,219 35,789 60,043 85,313 28,568 227,932
C 18,146 58,989 150,418 374,210 108,444 710,207
Start 18,764 95,759 437,134 1,829,484 447,594 2,828,735
Stub 4,008 30,533 273,772 2,902,923 790,442 4,001,678
List 5,266 18,467 57,271 223,631 100,078 404,713
Assessed 70,119 251,531 998,803 5,441,345 1,477,437 8,239,235
Unassessed 112 399 968 12,677 315,761 329,917
Total 70,231 251,930 999,771 5,454,022 1,793,198 8,569,152
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

Vital articles

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See also: WP:Vital articles

A vital article covers a subject that the Wikipedia community has decided most deserves a high-quality article in the encyclopedia. As of 2026, the level 1 vital articles are The arts, Earth, Human, Human history, Life, Mathematics, Philosophy, Science, Society and Technology.

This table is an excerpt from Wikipedia:Vital articles § Vital articles in Wikipedia.[edit]
Vital article
level 		Target number
of vital articles 		Current situation (May 4, 2026)
Current
number 		At or above
-class (%) 		At or above
class (%)
1 10 10 10 (100%) 6 (60%)
2 100 100 87 (87%) 29 (29%)
3 1,000 1,003 679 (68%) 214 (21%)
4 10,000 10,004 5,117 (51%) 1,231 (12%)
5 50,000 49,965 16,977 (34%) 3,699 (7%)

Citations

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See also: WP:WikiProject Unreferenced articles
Number of articles with no sources by year (in thousands)[b][53]
Number of articles with "citation needed"
templates by year (in thousands)[54]
Number of articles containing a citation template as of May 2026[55]
Citation template method Number of
articles containing
the template 		Share of
all articles 		Template's main statement
Citation needed inline 576,000 8.0 % [citation needed]
More citations needed banner 426,000 5.9 % This article needs additional citations for verification.
Unreferenced article banner 92,000 1.3 % This article does not cite any sources.
Unreferenced section banner 42,000 0.6 % This section does not cite any sources.
Better source needed inline 26,000 0.4 % [better source needed]
More citations needed section banner 20,000 0.3 % This section needs additional citations for verification.
Failed verification inline 18,000 0.3 % [failed verification]
Dubious inline 8,500 0.1 % [dubious – discuss]
No reliable sources banner 53 0.0007 % This article does not cite any reliable sources.
Number of references in the English Wikipedia[56]
Number of pages (in millions)
that use a citation template[57]

Biases

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Gender gap in biographies in the English Wikipedia as of January 2025.[58]
  1. Males (79.8%)
  2. 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.[58]

Vandalism

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Wikiprojects

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Wikiprojects (not to be confused with Wikimedia projects) are a group of contributors who want to work together as a team to improve a certain part of Wikipedia. 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.[59]

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.[60]

Backlog

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See also: WP:Backlog

As of May 2026, there are:

Users

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See also: WP:Wikipedians
Demographics of contributors to Wikipedia[61]
Number of new registered users on the English Wikipedia[62]

Users who contribute to Wikipedia by editing its pages are Wikipedians, unlike readers who simply read the articles. The term "active editor" means registered, non-bot editors with five or more edits in a given month, including on redirect pages.[63]

  • Number of editors on the English Wikipedia[64]
    Number of editors on the English Wikipedia[64]
  • Number of active editors on the English Wikipedia[65]
    Number of active editors on the English Wikipedia[65]

The most active editors are in the United States. The most active editors per capita are in Ireland, Iceland and United Kingdom.[c] The most active editors per capita in a non-English speaking country are in Iceland, Estonia and Cyprus.[c][66][35]

  • Number of active editors on the English Wikipedia by country[66]
    Number of active editors on the English Wikipedia by country[66]
  • Number of active editors on the English Wikipedia per 1 million inhabitants[66][35]
    Number of active editors on the English Wikipedia per 1 million inhabitants[66][35]

As of 2026, over 12.4 million users have edited the English Wikipedia at least once.[2] The number of users with more than 5 edits are 3.7 million (37,167 in the last month).[2]

  • Reasons for starting to contribute[67]
    Reasons for starting to contribute[67]
  • Reasons for continuing to contribute[67]
    Reasons for continuing to contribute[67]
  • Reasons that discourage contributing on Wikipedia[67]
    Reasons that discourage contributing on Wikipedia[67]

Visualization tools

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Tool Topic Code Description Image Status
Quarry Databases Query Wikimedia projects databases. Active
mediawiki-utilities Data processing GitHub A set of utilities for accessing and processing MediaWiki data, including XML dumps Active
pywikibot Bots GitHub Python library and collection of tools that automate work on MediaWiki sites. Active
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 Active
Listen to Wikipedia Edits GitHub Visual and audio illustration of live editing activity on Wikipedia. Listen to Wikipedia Active
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 Active
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. Active
analytics.wikimedia.org site views, user agents The website provides: Active
wikipedia diversity observatory 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 Historical
Wikistats1 Edits Erik Zachte's statistics for all projects and all languages. Historical information captured monthly until 31 January 2019. Replaced by Wikistats2. Wikipedia statistics Historical
wlm-stats 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 Historical
WikiChecker 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 Broken
Wikistats2 Edits
Page views 		GitHub Numbers and graphs for several core metrics, updated monthly with data and newer features added quarterly. Broken
wikipulse 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 Broken
wmcharts 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 Broken
wmcounter 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 Broken
Wikimedia Commons logo
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. ^ excluding articles with a large percentage of unintentional views and articles that logged a large number of automated views
  2. ^ Number of articles with an "Unreferenced" template
  3. ^ a b among all territorial states
  1. ^ Estimate: 517 million edits and 329 billion page views in 2025 divided by (86,400 sec/day * 365 days).
  2. ^ Estimate: 62 million edits and 144 billion page views in 2025 divided by (86,400 sec/day * 365 days).
  3. ^ Estimate: 4,419,658,359 bytes in 2025 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

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