Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia

For the editing guideline on article size, see Wikipedia:Article size.

A treemap-like breakdown of Wikipedia's topic areas as of February 2016, based on a random sampling of 1,000 articles

An image estimating the size of a printed version of Wikipedia as of March 2020 (from an automatically updated image based on using volumes of Encyclopædia Britannica with a silhouette of an average man for scale)

Wikipedia size and users

English articles	6,916,657
Total wiki pages	61,919,932
Article percentage	11.17%
Average revisions	20.27
Total admins	851
Total users	48,327,299
UTC time: 13:48 on 2024-Nov-27

The size of the English Wikipedia can be measured in terms of the number of articles, number of words, number of pages, and the size of the database, among other ways. As of 27 November 2024, there are 6,916,657 articles in the English Wikipedia containing over 4.7 billion words (giving an average of about 686 words per article). The total number of pages is 61,919,932. Articles make up 11.17 percent of all pages on Wikipedia. As of 16 October 2024, the size of the current version of all articles compressed is about 24.05 GB without media.

Wikipedia continues to grow, and the number of articles on Wikipedia is increasing by about 14,000 a month (as of January 2024). The number of articles added to Wikipedia every month reached its peak in 2006, at over 50,000 new articles a month, and has been slowly but steadily declining since then. While this might seem to show that Wikipedia's growth is slowing or stopping, it should be noted that the amount of text added to Wikipedia articles every year has been constant since 2006, at roughly 1 gigabyte of (compressed) text added per year. This implies that as time progresses, proportionally more content is added to existing articles rather than new articles, and that Wikipedia has maintained the same persistent rate of growth throughout since the 2010s. In other words, over time, the average article size is growing faster than the number of articles.

Most of the earlier entries were extracted from Wikipedia:Milestones. Later entries are taken from observations of the new software's built-in article count features. For information on what Wikipedia's software counts as an article, see Wikipedia:What is an article#Lists of articles and statistics.

The article count of bot-generated Wikipedias such as the Cebuano-language edition of Wikipedia, as well as the Swedish-, Dutch- and the Waray-language editions, grow much faster than those that are primarily written by humans such as the English Wikipedia. Swedish Wikipedian Sverker Johansson's Lsjbot is the primary author of those four primarily bot-generated Wikipedias. Cebuano and Waray are Filipino languages. However, individual articles in bot-generated Wikipedias are on average much shorter than those in primarily human-written Wikipedias. Thus, article count alone is a very poor indicator of the scale and scope of all Wikipedia editions.

Wikipedia growth of article count

For more details and discussion of other models, see Wikipedia:Modelling Wikipedia's growth.

Before 2012, Wikipedia's growth approximately followed a Gompertz growth model. This model was created in June 2010, and it is determined by the Gompertz function,

$y(t)=ae^{be^{ct}}$,

with parameters

a = 4,378,449

b = −15.42677

c = −0.384124

t is the time in years since 2000/1/1 (so 2010/1/1 is t = 10.00)

and where e is the constant 2.71828... (Euler's number).

Number of English Wikipedia articles

English Wikipedia editors with >100 edits per month

Some characteristics of this model are:

• a pivot point at which the growth is at its peak. For en.wikipedia.org (English Wikipedia), this might have been in August 2006 with 60,000 new articles per month.
• a maximum to the number of articles of about 4.4 million (as determined by parameter a of the model). It should be noted that there will always be new events, people, organizations, objects, works, locations, concepts, and receptions to describe in the future, which this model does not account for, and the actual number of English Wikipedia articles has already exceeded this maximum number of Wikipedia articles in December 2013.

This model is related to the quantity (number of articles). The quality might still increase independently depending on the individual article. The model does not account for article size.

Graphs of size and growth rate

In this section, the first graph shows the historical and expected total number of articles; in the second graph, the monthly growth rate, has slowed since late 2006 (series trending downward).

Detailed analysis of the data shows that from 2006 to 2009 the article growth rate followed a six-monthly cycle with faster growth in February and August than in May and November. This cycle does not appear in the growth-rate graph here because the values shown in the graph have been averaged over periods of six months.

The final graph in this section shows content page growth (i.e. including articles and other pages) to May 2019: note the near-linear growth trend since 2018.

Note the small drop in article count from late August 2022 to early September 2022.

Annual growth rate for the English Wikipedia

Date	Article count	Increase during  preceding year	% Increase during preceding year	Doubling time (in years and days rounded up)	Average increase per day during preceding year
2002-01-01	19,700	19,700	—	—	54
2003-01-01	96,500	76,800	390%	160 days	210
2004-01-01	188,800	92,300	96%	377 days	253
2005-01-01	438,500	249,700	132%	301 days	682
2006-01-01	895,000	456,500	104%	355 days	1251
2007-01-01	1,560,000	665,000	74%	342 days	1822
2008-01-01	2,153,000	593,000	38%	1 year, 302 days	1625
2009-01-01	2,679,000	526,000	24%	2 years, 326 days	1437
2010-01-01	3,144,000	465,000	17%	4 years, 29 days	1274
2011-01-01	3,518,000	374,000	12%	5 years, 284 days	1025
2012-01-01	3,835,000	317,000	9%	7 years, 257 days	868
2013-01-01	4,133,000	298,000	8%	8 years, 243 days	814
2014-01-01	4,413,000	280,000	7%	9 years, 330 days	767
2015-01-01	4,682,000	269,000	6%	11 years, 202 days	736
2016-01-01	5,045,000	363,000	8%	8 years, 243 days	995
2017-01-01	5,321,200	276,200	7%	9 years, 330 days	755
2018-01-01	5,541,900	220,700	4.5%	15 years, 148 days	605
2019-01-01	5,773,600	231,700	4.2%	16 years, 310 days	635
2020-01-01	5,989,400	215,800	3.8%	20 years, 11 days	591
2021-01-01	6,219,700	230,300	3.8%	20 years	629
2022-01-01	6,431,400	211,700	3.4%	21 years, 0 days	580
2023-01-01	6,595,468	164,068	2.6%	—	450
2024-01-01	6,764,335	168,867	2.6%	—	463
2024-11-27	6,916,657	167,677[a]	2.5%[a]		459[a]
[a]Estimate based on year so far

At this rate, there are 161 days until the English Wikipedia reaches 7 million articles.

Number of words

As of November 2024, there are more than 4.7 billion words in all English Wikipedia articles, about 686 words per article, and about 28.2 billion characters, assuming that each word is six characters long (five letters for each word on average plus a space or punctuation mark). For the most recent word count, please see the Special:Statistics page.

The table below shows only the number of words in all content pages, meaning the 6,916,657 articles; it does not include words in other namespaces like Talk, User, or Wikipedia. Data for 2002 through 2010 is from the old Wikistats-1 and thus only precise to the month rather than a specific day within a month. Data for 2018 to the present is from the Special:Statistics page, as saved on that date by the Internet Archive. There is no record of the number of words from January 2010 to December 2017; Wikistats-1 no longer includes the number of words after January 2010, and the Special:Statistics page only started showing the number of words in all content pages in December 2017. Some time within that almost eight-year span, the average number of words dropped. Note that the Internet Archive does not always have an archived version of the Special:Statistics page on the first day of each year.

Yearly statistics

Date	Word count	Increase during  preceding year	% Increase during  preceding year	Average increase per day during preceding year	Average number of words per article
2002-01	4,800,000	4,800,000	—	13,151	267
2003-01	32,100,000	27,300,000	569%	74,795	309
2004-01	61,400,000	29,300,000	91%	80,279	315
2005-01	127,000,000	65,600,000	107%	179,726	288
2006-01	353,000,000	226,000,000	177%	619,178	403
2007-01	709,000,000	356,000,000	101%	967,123	473
2008-01	1,082,000,000	373,000,000	53%	1,021,918	515
2009-01	1,437,000,000	355,000,000	33%	972,603	553
2010-01	1,798,000,000	361,000,000	25%	989,041	599
2011 to 2017	—	—	—	—	—
2018-01-03	3,077,580,920	159,947,625A	8.9%B	438,213C	555
2019-01-17	3,302,922,240	225,341,320	7.3%	617,373	570
2020-01-01	3,497,842,238	194,919,998	5.9%	534,027	584
2021-01-01	3,755,065,625	257,223,387	7.3%	702,796	604
2022-01-01	4,029,071,074	274,005,449	7.3%	750,700	626
2023-01-01	4,267,944,148	238,873,074	5.7%	654,447	647
2024-01-01	4,516,979,187	249,035,039	5.8%	682,288	668
2024-11-01	4,739,190,467D	222,211,280E	—	—	686

^A Average increase per year from 2010 to 2018; total increase of 1,279,581,000 words over the same time period

^B Average percent increase per year from 2010 to 2018; overall increase of 71% over the same time period

^C Average increase per day from 2010 to 2018

^D No archive available from Internet Archive due to disruption from 9 October 2024 hacking incident; however, data is from screenshot of Special:Statistics at 0:00 UTC time

^E So far this year

Monthly statistics since January 2019

The table below includes the total number of words in all articles and the number of words added at the start or near the start of each month since January 2019.

Monthly statistics

Date  Word count   Increase during  preceding month 2019-01-17 3,302,922,240 — 2019-01-30 3,312,628,012 9,705,772 2019-03-01 3,327,908,282 15,280,270 2019-04-02 3,346,005,474 18,097,912 2019-05-02 3,364,867,198 18,861,724 2019-06-02 3,382,682,291 17,815,093 2019-07-03 3,400,841,476 18,159,185 2019-08-01 3,415,713,393 14,871,917 2019-08-31 3,431,923,050 16,209,657 2019-10-01 3,448,916,490 16,993,440 2019-11-03 3,465,850,615 16,934,125 2019-12-02 3,482,116,852 16,266,237 2020-01-01 3,497,842,238 15,275,386 2020-02-01 3,515,781,525 17,939,287 2020-03-01 3,533,853,569 18,072,044 2020-04-01 3,556,915,740 23,062,171 2020-05-01 3,584,029,618 27,113,878 2020-06-04 3,611,432,972 27,403,354 2020-07-01 3,631,265,076 19,832,104 2020-08-01 3,653,369,248 22,104,172 2020-09-01 3,673,339,409 19,970,161 2020-10-01 3,692,222,212 18,882,803 2020-11-01 3,713,395,900 21,173,688 2020-12-01 3,733,824,980 20,429,080 2021-01-01 3,755,065,625 21,240,645 2021-02-01 3,776,685,968 21,620,343 2021-03-01 3,811,006,931 34,320,963 2021-04-01 3,839,532,258 28,525,327 2021-05-01 3,889,436,965 49,904,707A 2021-06-01 3,901,873,166 12,436,201B 2021-07-01 3,910,030,230 8,157,064C 2021-08-01 3,928,967,545 18,937,315 2021-09-01 3,948,128,338 19,160,793 2021-10-01 3,967,621,552 19,493,214 2021-11-01 3,987,982,865 20,361,313 2021-12-01 4,007,118,847 19,135,982 2022-01-01 4,029,071,074 21,952,227 2022-02-01 4,051,725,197 22,654,123 2022-03-01 4,071,396,757 19,671,560 2022-04-01 4,090,472,851 19,076,094 2022-05-01 4,109,204,408 18,731,557 2022-06-01 4,129,871,712 20,667,304 2022-07-02 4,150,008,206 20,136,494 2022-08-01 4,175,523,086 25,514,880 2022-09-01 4,193,329,859 17,806,773 2022-10-01 4,210,577,185 17,247,326 2022-11-01 4,230,724,380 20,147,195 2022-12-01 4,248,826,033 18,101,653 2023-01-01 4,267,944,148 19,118,115 2023-02-01 4,288,893,266 20,949,118 2023-03-01 4,308,319,794 19,426,528 2023-04-01 4,328,626,906 20,307,112 2023-05-01 4,349,234,241 20,607,335 2023-06-01 4,369,929,624 20,695,383 2023-07-01 4,390,143,361 20,213,737 2023-08-01 4,410,109,903 19,966,542 2023-09-01 4,432,350,450 22,240,547 2023-10-01 4,450,087,648 17,737,198 2023-11-01 4,471,349,306 21,261,658 2023-12-01 4,495,407,730 24,058,424 2024-01-01 4,516,979,187 21,571,457 2024-02-01 4,538,556,246 21,577,059 2024-03-02 4,561,800,583 23,244,337 2024-04-01 4,578,602,377 16,801,794 2024-05-01 4,601,749,228 23,146,851 2024-06-01 4,625,033,481 23,284,253 2024-07-01 4,647,681,621 22,648,140 2024-08-01 4,671,791,985 24,110,364 2024-09-01 4,694,224,274 22,432,289 2024-10-01 4,716,568,100 22,343,826 2024-11-01 4,739,190,467D 22,622,367 A There was an unusually large increase in the number of words in April 2021 (49,904,707), followed by an unusually small increase in the number of words in May 2021 (12,436,201). Averaging the two gives 31,170,454. B Of note, in May 2021, the number of words initially increased to about 3,915,000,000, then decreased to 3,901,873,166 by the end of the month. It is unclear whether this decrease was real or if the software was correcting for overcounting words the previous month. C Like May 2021, June 2021 was associated with an unusually small increase in the number of words (8,157,064). D No archive available from Internet Archive due to disruption from 9 October 2024 hacking incident; however, data is from screenshot of Special:Statistics at 0:00 UTC time

Number of pages

As of 27 November 2024, there are 61,919,932 pages in the English Wikipedia, of which 6,916,657 (11.17%) are articles, which are found in the main namespace, or simply mainspace. The rest of the pages belong to one of the other 11 namespaces, listed here in alphabetical order: Category, Draft, File, Help, MediaWiki, Module, Portal, Template, TimedText, User, and Wikipedia. Each page on Wikipedia can have a corresponding talk page as well. The data for this table is from the Special:Statistics page, as saved on that date by the Internet Archive. Note that the Internet Archive does not always have an archived version of the Special:Statistics page on the first day of each year. Over time, the percentage of all pages on Wikipedia that consist of articles drops as more non-article pages are created than articles.

Date	Number of pages	Increase during  preceding year	Number of articles	Articles as percent of all pages
2004-06-11	647,883	—	281,874	43.5%
2005-01-01	1,197,913	550,030	438,141	36.6%
2006-01-03	3,000,244	1,802,331	898,545	29.9%
2006-12-31	6,943,133	3,942,889	1,558,851	22.5%
2008-01-17	11,539,058	4,595,925	2,179,452	18.9%
2009-01-14	15,748,310	4,209,252	2,698,541	17.1%
2010-01-16	19,152,235	3,403,925	3,160,689	16.5%
2011-01-17	22,911,618	3,759,383	3,528,731	15.4%
2012-01-13	25,967,077	3,055,459	3,845,029	14.8%
2013-01-09	29,155,808	3,188,731	4,139,737	14.2%
2014-01-07	31,923,877	2,768,069	4,417,695	13.8%
2015-01-04	34,707,205	2,783,328	4,686,061	13.5%
2016-01-26	38,371,459	3,664,254	5,067,290	13.2%
2017-02-05	41,359,746	2,988,287	5,329,307	12.9%
2018-01-03	43,888,461	2,528,715	5,543,749	12.6%
2019-01-17	46,887,788	2,999,327	5,789,910	12.3%
2020-01-01	49,284,510	2,396,722	5,989,467	12.1%
2021-01-01	52,249,111	2,964,601	6,219,733	11.9%
2022-01-01	54,881,228	2,632,117	6,431,465	11.7%
2023-01-01	57,218,269	2,337,041	6,595,468	11.5%
2024-01-01	59,683,415	2,465,146	6,764,492	11.3%

Size of the English Wikipedia database

Total article text in English Wikipedia, measured in gigabytes (compressed).

There are various elements of the Wikipedia database to consider when describing its size. The most obvious include the markup text of the articles, templates, media/file descriptions, and primary meta-pages that would be needed to render the text of the latest version of the current encyclopedia proper. The associated talk pages and the other namespaces (User, Wikipedia, Help, etc.) are often considered separately. Each of these has an associated edit history, etc. In addition, there are the images and other multimedia (stored in common across all Wikipedias). It is important to take into account whether the data is compressed and if so what compression scheme is used. Besides the English Wikipedia, there are hundreds of Wikipedias in other languages to consider, as well.

In April 2010, the size of the full English Wikipedia edit history was 5.6 TB uncompressed.

As of June 2015, the dump of all pages with complete edit history in XML format at enwiki dump progress on 20150602 is about 100 GB compressed using 7-Zip, and 10 TB uncompressed.

As of May 2015, the current version of the English Wikipedia article / template / redirect text was about 51 GB uncompressed in XML format.

The size of the article text in the English Wikipedia, measured in gigabytes (compressed), grew steadily from 1 GB in 2006 to 9 GB in 2013 to 11.5 GB in 2015 as shown in the chart. However, due to an error in compiling the data dump for April 2016, the size of the article text shrunk by approximately 9 percent to 10.8 GB compressed (though the actual size of the article text grew in reality, which can be seen by comparing with the March 2016 and May 2016 data dumps). Likewise, there is also a similar error when compiling the April 20, 2018 data, showing as 12.85 GB (again, the actual size of the article text grew in reality as can be seen by comparing the previous and following months).

As of February 2013, the XML file containing current pages only, no user or talk pages, was 42,987,293,445 bytes uncompressed (43 GB). The XML file with current pages, including user and talk pages, was 93,754,003,797 bytes uncompressed (94 GB). The full history dumps, all 174 files of them, took 10,005,676,791,734 bytes (10 TB).

As of August 2023, Wikimedia Commons, which includes the images, videos and other media used across all the language-specific Wikipedias contained 96,519,778 files, totalling 470,991,810,222,099 bytes (428.36 TB).

Other sources for recent size estimates are:

• m:Data dumps
  • m:Data dump torrents
• m:Mirroring Wikimedia project XML dumps/estimates
• Wikipedia Statistics - Tables - English

Comparisons with other Wikipedias

Distribution of the 64,011,075 articles in different language editions (as of 27 November 2024)

  English (10.8%)

  Cebuano (9.6%)

  German (4.6%)

  French (4.1%)

  Swedish (4.1%)

  Dutch (3.4%)

  Russian (3.1%)

  Spanish (3.1%)

  Italian (3%)

  Polish (2.6%)

  Other (51.6%)

Codes: en - English • es - Spanish • de - German • ja - Japanese • ru - Russian • fr - French • it - Italian • pl - Polish • pt - Portuguese • zh - Chinese

This graph is based on data from https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesArticlesTotal.htm as of 14 June 2015, with recent values for the English Wikipedia taken from the data below. The sum includes all 270+ Wikipedia languages. See the front page at https://www.wikipedia.org for a recent article count for the ten largest Wikipedias.

The English edition remains the largest Wikipedia, slightly larger than the second-largest edition, the Cebuano Wikipedia. Many other editions shared the quasi-exponential growth of the English edition, though lagging one to three years behind. As these other Wikipedias have grown, the overall percentage of articles in English has been steadily decreasing, and it fell below 25 percent in March 2007. The percentage of articles in the ten largest Wikipedias has also been decreasing, although these top ten still account for about 67 percent of all Wikipedia articles as of June 2007. Note that Lsjbot, a bot run by Sverker Johansson, is responsible for much of the growth of the second- and fifth-largest Wikipedias, the Cebuano and the Swedish Wikipedias, respectively, as well as the rapid growth of the Waray Wikipedia. The charts don't show the Cebuano, Swedish, or the Waray Wikipedias. Those three Wikipedias' article count growth primarily consists of stubs pertaining to living organisms and geographical entities (such as islands, rivers, dams, and mountains).

Currently, the English Wikipedia makes up 10.81 percent of all volumes in all editions of Wikipedia.

The English Wikipedia's database size is just over 10 times greater than the next-largest Wikipedia by article count, the Cebuano Wikipedia. (As of October 2023)

Chronology of software versions

• Phase I UseMod Wiki-based software: January 10, 2001 – January 25, 2002
• Phase II PHP-based software: January 25, 2002 – July 20, 2002
• Phase III PHP-based software: July 20, 2002 – present

This data set notes the fact that these figures are drawn from multiple data sources and different estimates (see the key below for details), and presents them as a spreadsheet-ready table for graphing. The original data sets are archived: see the links below. Note also that the figures are sampled at random times of day.

Hard copy size

Main page: Wikipedia:Size in volumes

In early 2015, Michael Mandiberg published the English Wikipedia in 7473 volumes of 700 pages each via Lulu, an online e-books and print self-publishing platform, distributor, and retailer.

The following graphic illustrates how big the English Wikipedia might be if the articles (without images and other multimedia content) were to be printed and bound in book form with a format similar to Encyclopædia Britannica. Each volume is assumed to be 25 cm (9.8 in) tall, 5 cm (2.0 in) thick, and containing 1,600,000 words or 8,000,000 characters. The size of this illustration is based upon the live article count manually adjusted by the average word count on an irregular basis on a user subpage.

3538 volumes 18 stacks

The data set

See also: Wikipedia:Modelling Wikipedia's growth § Data set for number of articles

Key to the data below:

• approx: this figure is an approximation
• lowerbound indicates that there were at least this many pages
• mpac3.2: main page article count from the Phase III software following an adjustment to the count on March 29, 2015
• mpac3.1: main page article count from the Phase III software from May 25, 2003, to March 28, 2015: article namespace, not redirects, containing at least one internal wiki link
• mpacIII: main page article count from the Phase III software up to May 22, 2003: article namespace, comma, not redirect
• mpacII: main page article count from the Phase II software
• spII: stats page article count from the Phase II software
• all: total of all pages of any sort
• commapp: pages that include a comma, a crude way of finding "real" articles
• conscnt: "conservative count" taken by removing the count of various types of non-article from the comma page count
• MF: Malcolm Farmer
• LMS: Larry Sanger
• WA: Wikipedia:Announcements

Now extended and annotated with (somewhat gnomic) source information. Note that sampling times are only recorded to the day given by the user recording the entry and that there is no clear time-zone information for that day. However, most of the more recent counts (up to 2022) were taken at the start of the day based on UTC taken from the List of Wikipedias table in Meta Wiki. Since 2023, the counts are taken at around the same time, albeit taken from the new List of Wikipedias table in Wikimedia Commons as it leaves a permanent revision record in its history page, though not necessarily at midnight UTC.

Note: The current mpac3.2 article count for the English-language Wikipedia is 6,916,657 articles

Data set

2024-11-20, 6913168, mpac3.2 2024-11-01, 6904265, mpac3.2 2024-10-20, 6898224, mpac3.2 2024-10-01, 6889419, mpac3.2 2024-09-20, 6884951, mpac3.2 2024-09-01, 6876239, mpac3.2 2024-08-20, 6870088, mpac3.2 2024-08-01, 6860376, mpac3.2 2024-07-20, 6855041, mpac3.2 2024-07-01, 6843711, mpac3.2 2024-06-20, 6838209, mpac3.2 2024-06-01, 6829789, mpac3.2 2024-05-20, 6825439, mpac3.2 2024-05-01, 6818885, mpac3.2 2024-04-20, 6814382, mpac3.2 2024-04-01, 6805823, mpac3.2 2024-03-21, 6800000, mpac3.2 2024-03-20, 6799594, mpac3.2 2024-03-01, 6790569, mpac3.2 2024-02-20, 6786300, mpac3.2 2024-02-01, 6777120, mpac3.2 2024-01-20, 6772420, mpac3.2 2024-01-01, 6764493, mpac3.2 2023-12-20, 6759280, mpac3.2 2023-12-01, 6752837, mpac3.2 2023-11-20, 6747593, mpac3.2 2023-11-01, 6737260, mpac3.2 2023-10-20, 6731340, mpac3.2 2023-10-01, 6722032, mpac3.2 2023-09-20, 6716704, mpac3.2 2023-09-01, 6707449, mpac3.2 2023-08-20, 6700863, mpac3.2 2023-08-01, 6691470, mpac3.2 2023-07-20, 6685858, mpac3.2 2023-07-01, 6676895, mpac3.2 2023-06-20, 6671771, mpac3.2 2023-06-01, 6662767, mpac3.2 2023-05-20, 6658548, mpac3.2 2023-05-01, 6650365, mpac3.2 2023-04-20, 6645801, mpac3.2 2023-04-01, 6637528, mpac3.2 2023-03-20, 6632573, mpac3.2 2023-03-01, 6625092, mpac3.2 2023-02-20, 6620636, mpac3.2 2023-02-01, 6610944, mpac3.2 2023-01-20, 6605171, mpac3.2 2023-01-01, 6595453, mpac3.2 2022-12-20, 6589658, mpac3.2 2022-12-01, 6581870, mpac3.2 2022-11-20, 6577410, mpac3.2 2022-11-01, 6569425, mpac3.2 2022-10-20, 6564333, mpac3.2 2022-10-01, 6556407, mpac3.2 2022-09-20, 6552981, mpac3.2 2022-09-01, 6546262, mpac3.2 2022-08-20, 6572031, mpac3.2 2022-08-01, 6555874, mpac3.2 2022-07-20, 6546227, mpac3.2 2022-07-01, 6526224, mpac3.2 2022-06-20, 6521455, mpac3.2 2022-06-01, 6506591, mpac3.2 2022-05-20, 6501004, mpac3.2 2022-05-01, 6492027, mpac3.2 2022-04-20, 6486854, mpac3.2 2022-04-01, 6476873, mpac3.2 2022-03-20, 6470278, mpac3.2 2022-03-01, 6460214, mpac3.2 2022-02-20, 6455948, mpac3.2 2022-02-01, 6446517, mpac3.2 2022-01-20, 6441097, mpac3.2 2022-01-01, 6431453, mpac3.2 2021-12-20, 6425601, mpac3.2 2021-12-01, 6416006, mpac3.2 2021-11-20, 6410825, mpac3.2 2021-11-01, 6403271, mpac3.2 2021-10-20, 6396906, mpac3.2 2021-10-01, 6385536, mpac3.2 2021-09-20, 6379285, mpac3.2 2021-09-01, 6367872, mpac3.2 2021-08-20, 6360324, mpac3.2 2021-08-01, 6348250, mpac3.2 2021-07-20, 6340028, mpac3.2 2021-07-01, 6327892, mpac3.2 2021-06-20, 6320663, mpac3.2 2021-06-01, 6308335, mpac3.2 2021-05-20, 6301409, mpac3.2 2021-05-01, 6289761, mpac3.2 2021-04-20, 6284578, mpac3.2 2021-04-01, 6279392, mpac3.2 2021-03-20, 6275819, mpac3.2 2021-03-01, 6260514, mpac3.2 2021-02-20, 6253194, mpac3.2 2021-02-16, 6251560, mpac3.2 2021-02-01, 6239794, mpac3.2 2021-01-20, 6232709, mpac3.2 2021-01-01, 6219738, mpac3.2 2020-12-20, 6211416, mpac3.2 2020-12-01, 6199583, mpac3.2 2020-11-20, 6193125, mpac3.2 2020-11-01, 6183101, mpac3.2 2020-10-20, 6177159, mpac3.2 2020-10-01, 6166863, mpac3.2 2020-09-20, 6160933, mpac3.2 2020-09-01, 6151185, mpac3.2 2020-08-20, 6144071, mpac3.2 2020-08-01, 6132457, mpac3.2 2020-07-20, 6124960, mpac3.2 2020-07-01, 6112491, mpac3.2 2020-06-20, 6104272, mpac3.2 2020-06-01, 6090117, mpac3.2 2020-05-20, 6081715, mpac3.2 2020-05-01, 6068930, mpac3.2 2020-04-29, 6068050, mpac3.2 2020-04-20, 6061566, mpac3.2 2020-04-01, 6046541, mpac3.2 2020-03-20, 6037325, mpac3.2 2020-03-01, 6023622, mpac3.2 2020-02-20, 6017461, mpac3.2 2020-02-01, 6007270, mpac3.2 2020-01-23, 6000000, mpac3.2 2020-01-20, 5997670, mpac3.2 2020-01-01, 5989416, mpac3.2 2019-12-20, 5984273, mpac3.2 2019-12-01, 5976279, mpac3.2 2019-11-20, 5972256, mpac3.2 2019-11-01, 5962722, mpac3.2 2019-10-20, 5954671, mpac3.2 2019-10-01, 5939875, mpac3.2 2019-09-20, 5932911, mpac3.2 2019-09-01, 5918071, mpac3.2 2019-08-20, 5911737, mpac3.2 2019-08-01, 5896919, mpac3.2 2019-07-20, 5893658, mpac3.2 2019-07-01, 5878338, mpac3.2 2019-06-20, 5877998, mpac3.2 2019-06-01, 5863143, mpac3.2 2019-05-20, 5860500, mpac3.2 2019-05-01, 5846911, mpac3.2 2019-04-20, 5844944, mpac3.2 2019-04-01, 5829735, mpac3.2 2019-03-20, 5826549, mpac3.2 2019-03-01, 5811521, mpac3.2 2019-02-20, 5809147, mpac3.2 2019-02-01, 5793211, mpac3.2 2019-01-20, 5790289, mpac3.2 2019-01-01, 5773609, mpac3.2 2018-12-20, 5769623, mpac3.2 2018-12-01, 5760650, mpac3.2 2018-11-20, 5754678, mpac3.2 2018-11-01, 5743635, mpac3.2 2018-10-20, 5737320, mpac3.2 2018-10-01, 5725625, mpac3.2 2018-09-20, 5719275, mpac3.2 2018-09-01, 5708859, mpac3.2 2018-08-20, 5700767, mpac3.2 2018-08-01, 5691573, mpac3.2 2018-07-20, 5684754, mpac3.2 2018-07-01, 5674437, mpac3.2 2018-06-20, 5669597, mpac3.2 2018-06-01, 5658597, mpac3.2 2018-05-20, 5652460, mpac3.2 2018-05-01, 5631064, mpac3.2 2018-04-20, 5624665, mpac3.2 2018-04-20, 5616424, mpac3.2 2018-04-01, 5601977, mpac3.2 2018-03-20, 5593122, mpac3.2 2018-03-14, 5589212, mpac3.2 2018-03-01, 5580475, mpac3.2 2018-02-20, 5574370, mpac3.2 2018-02-01, 5561943, mpac3.2 2018-01-20, 5553902, mpac3.2 2018-01-01, 5541954, mpac3.2 2017-12-20, 5534201, mpac3.2 2017-12-01, 5523142, mpac3.2 2017-11-20, 5514876, mpac3.2 2017-11-03, 5504063, mpac3.2 2017-11-01, 5502176, mpac3.2 2017-10-20, 5495560, mpac3.2 2017-10-01, 5485667, mpac3.2 2017-09-20, 5479643, mpac3.2 2017-09-01, 5468941, mpac3.2 2017-08-20, 5462561, mpac3.2 2017-08-01, 5451723, mpac3.2 2017-07-20, 5444264, mpac3.2 2017-07-01, 5433581, mpac3.2 2017-06-20, 5426719, mpac3.2 2017-06-01, 5416113, mpac3.2 2017-05-20, 5408129, mpac3.2 2017-05-01, 5396280, mpac3.2 2017-04-20, 5387914, mpac3.2 2017-04-01, 5373690, mpac3.2 2017-03-20, 5362523, mpac3.2 2017-03-01, 5346700, mpac3.2 2017-02-20, 5338516, mpac3.2 2017-02-01, 5327098, mpac3.2 2017-01-20, 5331347, mpac3.2 2017-01-01, 5321224, mpac3.2 2016-12-20, 5311347, mpac3.2 2016-12-01, 5296678, mpac3.2 2016-11-20, 5288330, mpac3.2 2016-11-01, 5274651, mpac3.2 2016-10-20, 5265089, mpac3.2 2016-10-01, 5252268, mpac3.2 2016-09-20, 5243484, mpac3.2 2016-09-01, 5228161, mpac3.2 2016-08-20, 5219543, mpac3.2 2016-08-17, 5217387, mpac3.2 2016-08-01, 5206524, mpac3.2 2016-07-20, 5197958, mpac3.2 2016-07-01, 5185010, mpac3.2 2016-06-16, 5175044, mpac3.2 2016-06-01, 5164502, mpac3.2 2016-05-07, 5145138, mpac3.2 2016-05-01, 5138918, mpac3.2 2016-04-16, 5127280, mpac3.2 2016-04-01, 5117649, mpac3.2 2016-03-12, 5101915, mpac3.2 2016-03-01, 5092635, mpac3.2 2016-02-25, 5088246, mpac3.2 2016-02-10, 5076100, mpac3.2 2016-02-01, 5069563, mpac3.2 2016-01-13, 5054998, mpac3.2 2016-01-01, 5044646, mpac3.2 2015-12-13, 5029904, mpac3.2 2015-12-01, 5021412, mpac3.2 2015-11-19, 5012867, mpac3.2 2015-11-01, 5000222, mpac3.2 2015-10-31, 4999125, mpac3.2 2015-10-30, 4998330, mpac3.2 (getting ready to cross the 5,000,000-article mark within days!) 2015-10-23, 4994039, mpac3.2 2015-09-15, 4967357, mpac3.2 2015-08-20, 4948565, mpac3.2 2015-07-24, 4925955, mpac3.2 2015-07-11, 4914223, mpac3.2 2015-06-13, 4890457, mpac3.2 2015-06-01, 4881893, mpac3.2 2015-04-23, 4857075, mpac3.2 2015-03-29, 4847680, mpac3.2 (Articles were re-counted after the count had been corrupted due to bugs related to article import.) 2015-03-28, 4752325, mpac3.1 2015-02-16, 4720863, mpac3.1 2015-02-13, 4718012, mpac3.1 2014-12-24, 4676771, mpac3.1 2014-10-21, 4628356, mpac3.1 2014-09-09, 4599536, mpac3.1 2014-08-16, 4581884, mpac3.1 2014-07-07, 4549644, mpac3.1 2014-05-27, 4523082, mpac3.1 2014-03-11, 4469721, mpac3.1 2014-02-24, 4459244, mpac3.1 2014-01-13, 4422851, mpac3.1 2013-12-29, 4410984, mpac3.1 2013-10-03, 4340901, mpac3.1 2013-09-24, 4334149, mpac3.1 2013-08-07, 4298577, mpac3.1 2013-07-23, 4288499, mpac3.1 2013-06-24, 4264727, mpac3.1 2013-05-01, 4246040, mpac3.1 2013-04-16, 4211714, mpac3.1 2013-03-24, 4192854, mpac3.1 2013-02-27, 4174895, mpac3.1 2013-02-11, 4163513, mpac3.1 2013-01-10, 4140601, mpac3.1 2013-01-01, 4133445, mpac3.1 2012-12-30, 4131913, mpac3.1 2012-12-08, 4114646, mpac3.1 2012-10-28, 4085249, mpac3.1 2012-09-28, 4063240, mpac3.1 2012-09-24, 4060628, mpac3.1 2012-09-17, 4055005, mpac3.1 2012-09-01, 4042592, mpac3.1 2012-08-23, 4034323, mpac3.1 2012-08-06, 4021327, mpac3.1 2012-07-30, 4014919, mpac3.1 2012-07-27, 4011587, mpac3.1 2012-07-19, 4004895, mpac3.1 2012-07-12, 4000109, mpac3.1 2012-07-07, 3993535, mpac3.1 2012-06-30, 3986591, mpac3.1 2012-06-17, 3975795, mpac3.1 2012-06-10, 3968543, mpac3.1 2012-04-30, 3937038, mpac3.1 2012-04-02, 3912036, mpac3.1 2011-11-01, 3784306, mpac3.1 2011-08-07, 3704299, mpac3.1 2011-06-21, 3663629, mpac3.1 2011-06-18, 3661385, mpac3.1 2011-03-31, 3599159, mpac3.1 2011-02-15, 3559253, mpac3.1 2011-01-24, 3540209, mpac3.1 2011-01-03, 3519837, mpac3.1 2010-12-12, 3499170, mpac3.1 2010-08-15, 3379047, mpac3.1 2010-08-05, 3369561, mpac3.1 2010-05-17, 3292706, mpac3.1 2010-04-23, 3266245, mpac3.1 2009-12-13, 3123353, mpac3.1 2009-11-23, 3102627, mpac3.1 2009-10-15, 3063124, mpac3.1 2009-09-12, 3031291, mpac3.1 2009-08-26, 3013053, mpac3.1 2009-08-17, 3000000, mpac3.1 2009-07-31, 2975970, mpac3.1 2009-07-11, 2943644, mpac3.1 2009-04-17, 2843391, mpac3.1 2009-03-07, 2780320, mpac3.1 2009-02-17, 2746003, mpac3.1 2009-02-01, 2722366, mpac3.1 2009-01-01, 2679785, mpac3.1 2008-12-10, 2652896, mpac3.1 2008-11-21, 2631334, mpac3.1 2008-11-04, 2612599, mpac3.1 2008-10-20, 2591574, mpac3.1 2008-10-02, 2569004, mpac3.1 2008-09-14, 2553609, mpac3.1 2008-08-16, 2510197, mpac3.1 2008-08-11, 2500000, mpac3.1 (inserted retroactively from data in WA) 2008-07-30, 2479280, mpac3.1 2008-07-15, 2456599, mpac3.1 2008-07-02, 2436830, mpac3.1 2008-06-21, 2421535, mpac3.1 2008-06-04, 2399617, mpac3.1 2008-05-20, 2379635, mpac3.1 2008-05-13, 2370238, mpac3.1 2008-04-30, 2353068, mpac3.1 2008-04-06, 2320245, mpac3.1 2008-03-21, 2291433, mpac3.1 2008-03-08, 2269796, mpac3.1 2008-02-23, 2246333, mpac3.1 2008-02-07, 2214256, mpac3.1 2008-01-30, 2200000, mpac3.1 2008-01-12, 2170716, mpac3.1 2007-12-16, 2129551, mpac3.1 2007-12-08, 2118053, mpac3.1 2007-11-27, 2104052, mpac3.1 2007-11-15, 2090929, mpac3.1 2007-10-20, 2055408, mpac3.1 2007-10-06, 2037246, mpac3.1 2007-09-09, 2000000, mpac3.1 (inserted retroactively from data in WA) 2007-09-05, 1991220, mpac3.1 2007-08-28, 1978895, mpac3.1 2007-08-09, 1941186, mpac3.1 2007-08-01, 1925624, mpac3.1 2007-07-22, 1900000, mpac3.1 (inserted retroactively from data in WA) 2007-07-12, 1879826, mpac3.1 2007-06-23, 1847297, mpac3.1 2007-06-10, 1828002, mpac3.1 2007-06-02, 1813007, mpac3.1 2007-05-25, 1800000, mpac3.1 2007-05-16, 1785384, mpac3.1 2007-05-01, 1763270, mpac3.1 2007-04-16, 1740243, mpac3.1 2007-03-22, 1700000, mpac3.1 (inserted retroactively from data in WA) 2007-03-07, 1674588, mpac3.1 2007-02-14, 1638583, mpac3.1 2007-02-08, 1626802, mpac3.1 2007-01-24, 1598645, mpac3.1 2006-12-19, 1539908, mpac3.1 2006-11-24, 1500000, mpac3.1 (inserted retroactively from data in WA) 2006-11-08, 1473418, mpac3.1 2006-10-21, 1444717, mpac3.1 2006-10-05, 1418517, mpac3.1 2006-09-22, 1396727, mpac3.1 2006-08-26, 1344771, mpac3.1 2006-08-15, 1317963, mpac3.1 2006-08-06, 1300000, mpac3.1 (inserted retroactively from data in WA) 2006-07-04, 1234741, mpac3.1 2006-06-19, 1200000, mpac3.1 (inserted retroactively from data in WA) 2006-06-05, 1173156, mpac3.1 2006-05-12, 1129680, mpac3.1 2006-04-27, 1100000, mpac3.1 (inserted retroactively from data in WA) 2006-03-24, 1040919, mpac3.1 2006-03-17, 1027914, mpac3.1 2006-03-01, 1000000, mpac3.1 (inserted retroactively from data in WA) 2006-02-27, 995933, mpac3.1 2006-02-14, 971518, mpac3.1 2006-01-30, 945642, mpac3.1 2006-01-16, 921824, mpac3.1 2006-01-03, 897700, mpac3.1 2005-12-20, 874359, mpac3.1 2005-12-05, 851295, mpac3.1 2005-11-11, 815460, mpac3.1 2005-10-27, 791967, mpac3.1 2005-09-12, 726894, mpac3.1 (another long gap since last manual update) 2005-08-25, 700000, mpac3.1 (inserted retroactively from data in WA) 2005-06-19, 600000, mpac3.1 (inserted retroactively from data in WA) 2005-04-29, 544514, mpac3.1 (more than one month without data...) 2005-03-18, 500296, mpac3.1 (after another more minor server glitch and recovery) 2005-03-13, 496881, mpac3.1 2005-03-01, 486042, mpac3.1 (after server crash and DB recovery) 2005-02-10, 471659, mpac3.1 2005-01-27, 458779, mpac3.1 2005-01-01, 438533, mpac3.1 2004-12-04, 414023, mpac3.1 2004-11-18, 398159, mpac3.1 2004-11-16, 396408, mpac3.1 2004-11-08, 389614, mpac3.1 2004-11-01, 384336, mpac3.1 2004-09-01, 337911, mpac3.1 2004-08-25, 333015, mpac3.1 2004-08-23, 331191, mpac3.1 2004-08-13, 324551, mpac3.1 2004-08-07, 320532, mpac3.1 2004-07-25, 312524, mpac3.1 2004-07-10, 302333, mpac3.1 2004-05-13, 264854, mpac3.1 2004-05-07, 261964, mpac3.1 2004-04-28, 255596, mpac3.1 2004-02-27, 215140, mpac3.1 2004-02-15, 206665, mpac3.1 2004-02-07, 202410, mpac3.1 2004-02-01, 199738, mpac3.1 2004-01-28, 198011, mpac3.1 2004-01-22, 196070, mpac3.1 2003-12-31, 188538, mpac3.1 2003-12-23, 186539, mpac3.1 2003-12-16, 184273, mpac3.1 2003-12-08, 180008, mpac3.1 2003-12-03, 178093, mpac3.1 (after database rebuild and recalculation of count) 2003-11-25, 176091, mpac3.1 2003-11-21, 174904, mpac3.1 2003-11-19, 174376, mpac3.1 2003-11-12, 172387, mpac3.1 2003-10-30, 168762, mpac3.1 2003-10-14, 164565, mpac3.1 2003-10-04, 162636, mpac3.1 2003-09-27, 160361, mpac3.1 2003-09-12, 156047, mpac3.1 2003-09-09, 155316, mpac3.1 2003-09-04, 154061, mpac3.1 2003-08-31, 153047, mpac3.1 2003-08-15, 148859, mpac3.1 2003-07-27, 144467, mpac3.1 2003-07-15, 141607, mpac3.1 2003-07-07, 139896, mpac3.1 2003-07-04, 139031, mpac3.1 2003-07-01, 136737, mpac3.1 2003-06-27, 135963, mpac3.1 2003-06-25, 135504, mpac3.1 2003-06-22, 134869, mpac3.1 2003-06-19, 134256, mpac3.1 2003-06-16, 133411, mpac3.1 2003-06-11, 132267, mpac3.1 2003-06-09, 131900, mpac3.1 2003-06-06, 131249, mpac3.1 2003-06-04, 130797, mpac3.1 2003-05-31, 129884, mpac3.1 2003-05-28, 129240, mpac3.1 2003-05-25, 128475, mpac3.1 (correction of broken counter, new algorithm) 2003-05-22, 120704, mpacIII (installation of new webserver on 2003-05-14 fixed the count at 120704) 2003-05-12, 120173, mpacIII 2003-04-29, 117658, mpacIII 2003-04-23, 116408, mpacIII 2003-04-22, 116259, mpacIII 2003-04-21, 116066, mpacIII 2003-04-20, 115879, mpacIII 2003-04-18, 115361, mpacIII 2003-04-15, 114861, mpacIII 2003-04-12, 114469, mpacIII 2003-04-11, 114274, mpacIII 2003-04-01, 112564, mpacIII 2003-03-28, 112035, mpacIII 2003-03-15, 109933, mpacIII 2003-03-07, 108593, mpacIII 2003-03-05, 108298, mpacIII 2003-02-27, 107243, mpacIII 2003-02-26, 107027, mpacIII 2003-02-24, 106700, mpacIII 2003-01-22, 100321, mpacIII 2003-01-12, 98475, mpacIII 2003-01-08, 97913, mpacIII 2003-01-04, 97137, mpacIII 2003-01-02, 96664, mpacIII 2002-12-26, 95735, mpacIII 2002-12-23, 95452, mpacIII 2002-12-16, 94497, mpacIII (so, is the counter fixed now?) 2002-12-13, 93834, mpacIII 2002-12-10, 93301, mpacIII, Corrected counter drift 2002-12-10, 100046, mpacIII, RAMBOT causing Error in counter. 2002-12-04, 94165, mpacIII 2002-12-01, 93880, mpacIII 2002-11-27, 93263, mpacIII 2002-11-25, 92777, mpacIII, ~775 bot generated articles added. 2002-11-22, 91580, mpacIII, some recent performance problems 2002-11-18, 90905, mpacIII, article counter is back, after being switched off 2002-11-09, 90266, mpacIII 2002-11-07, 90003, mpacIII 2002-11-06, 89375, mpacIII 2002-11-01, 88597, mpacIII 2002-10-30, 88292, mpacIII 2002-10-27, 87285, mpacIII 2002-10-26, 87206, mpacIII 2002-10-25, 87037, mpacIII, rambot in operation 2002-10-24, 80887, mpacIII, rambot in operation 2002-10-23, 76958, mpacIII, rambot in operation 2002-10-22, 74005, mpacIII, rambot in operation 2002-10-21, 66738, mpacIII, rambot in operation 2002-10-20, 66372, mpacIII, rambot in operation 2002-10-19, 61128, mpacIII, rambot in operation 2002-10-17, 54339, mpacIII 2002-10-14, 53174, mpacIII 2002-10-11, 52571, mpacIII 2002-10-10, 52435, mpacIII 2002-10-08, 52092, mpacIII 2002-10-04, 50953, mpacIII 2002-10-03, 50804, mpacIII 2002-09-30, 49724, mpacIII 2002-09-27, 47448, mpacIII 2002-09-26, 47152, mpacIII 2002-09-25, 46133, mpacIII 2002-09-24, 45707, mpacIII 2002-09-23, 45462, mpacIII 2002-09-22, 45159, mpacIII 2002-09-21, 44920, mpacIII 2002-09-17, 43962, mpacIII 2002-09-16, 43762, mpacIII 2002-09-10, 42268, mpacIII 2002-09-09, 42021, mpacIII 2002-09-07, 41559, mpacIII 2002-09-05, 41141, mpacIII 2002-09-04, 40934, mpacIII 2002-09-03, 40718, mpacIII 2002-08-31, 40093, mpacIII 2002-08-22, 38780, mpacIII 2002-08-14, 37508, mpacIII 2002-08-12, 37259, mpacIII (upgraded to phase III software after major performance problems) 2002-05-17, 33333, spII approx (WA) 2002-04-16, 32000, spII approx (WA) 2002-03-28, 30000, spII approx (WA) 2002-02-04, 23000, mpacII approx (WA) 2002-01-09, 20000, estimate approx (LMS, WA) 2001-12-14, 19000, conscnt approx 2001-12-07, 18000, conscnt approx 2001-11-06, 16000, conscnt lowerbound 2001-10-25, 15053, conscnt (LMS, WA) 2001-10-19, 14000, commacnt lowerbound 2001-10-04, 13182, conscnt (MF, WA) 2001-09-19, 12502, conscnt (LMS) 2001-09-09, 11208, conscnt (MF) 2001-09-07, 10000, conscnt lowerbound 2001-08-22, 9043, conscnt 2001-08-07, 8000, conscnt 2001-07-27, 7243, conscnt 2001-07-26, 6947, conscnt 2001-07-08, 6000, conscnt lowerbound 2001-05-20, 4985, commapp 2001-05-10, 3969, commapp 2001-04-27, 3281, commapp 2001-03-30, 2221, commapp 2001-03-24, 1910, commapp 2001-03-07, 1323, commapp 2001-02-12, 1000, all lowerbound 2001-02-08, 900, all lowerbound 2001-01-31, 617, all 2001-01-25, 270, all 2001-01-10, 0, all

These pages hold the earlier source data in its original ad-hoc tabular format:

• Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia – 2002 archived data
• Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia – 2001 archived data

See also

• Wikipedia:Abundance and redundancy
• Wikipedia:Awareness statistics
• Wikipedia:Multilingual coordination
• Wikipedia:Size comparisons
• Wikipedia:Statistics
• Wikipedia:Database reports/Page count by namespace
• User:Emijrp/All human knowledge

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