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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 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. 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.
  • Automatically updated statistics showing requests and traffic across all Wikimedia clusters:
Requests hourly daily weekly monthly yearly
Traffic hourly daily weekly monthly yearly

Manually updated statistics

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

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.


Analysis

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


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The following statistical resources are currently unavailable or no longer updated, and listed for historical interest.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:

See also

ak:Wikipedia:Statistics