Wikipedia:Statistics

Articles

As of 2026, the English Wikipedia has 7,150,609 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]

As of 2026, the longest article is Japanese conjugation (mizenkei base) with 787,887 bytes^[9] and the most edited is List of WWE personnel with over 59,000 edits.^[10] There are bigger pages with over 2.5 MB in size^[11] and 2 million edits^[12] 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.^[13]

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

• Modelling Wikipedia's growth – analysis of the count of articles, attempting to fit mathematical growth models

Source: Wikiscan

Categories

As of 2026, the English Wikipedia has 2.6 million categories.^[15] The page with most categories is List of ISO 639-2 codes with 405 categories.^[16] The categories with most pages are related to Wikipedia maintenance.^[17]

Source: Wikiscan

Images and files

Wikimedia Commons is the main media repository for Wikimedia projects. As of 2026, the repository contains 136,279,372 free-to-use media files^[18] or around 898 TB.^[19] The English Wikipedia allows uploading files locally, though they must comply with the non-free content criteria, having 963,028 files to date.^[20]

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).^[19] The most linked images are related to Wikipedia maintenance.^[21]

Wikimedia Commons has over 421,000 images with more than 50 megapixels.^[22] Almost 21,000 files are over 1 GB, the bigger ones (5 GB) are mostly films from the silent era.^[23] The largest image is a 20th-century map of Vienna (3.94 GB).^[24][25]

Source: Wikiscan

Talk pages

As of 2026, the English Wikipedia has 8.4 million talk 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]

Source: Wikiscan

Redirects

As of 2026, the English Wikipedia has 11.8 million redirects to articles.^[15] 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 7000 redirects.^[27]

Source: Wikiscan

Edits

In 2025, people from all over the world made 517 million edits to Wikimedia projects.^[28] Wikipedia (in all languages) received 172 million edits^[29] and the English Wikipedia 62 million edits.^[30]

In the last years, around 11–13% of edits are mobile edits and 6–10% are done using VisualEditor.^[31] Roughly, about 4–6% of all edits are reverts.^[32]

Source: Wikiscan

Considering all Wikimedia projects, around 18 edits are submitted every second, half of them are done by bots.

Source: Wikimedia Statistics

Page views

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 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]

In 2024, the ten most viewed articles in the English Wikipedia were Deaths in 2024 (49 million views), YouTube (42M), 2024 United States presidential election (30M), Kamala Harris (29M), Donald Trump (27M), Indian Premier League (24M), Deadpool & Wolverine (22M), Project 2025 (20M), ChatGPT (18M) and 2024 Indian general election (18M).^[35] It reflects current events and it is shaped by the geographical procedence of each Wikipedia visitors and their interests. For example, in Spanish Wikipedia none of the ten most viewed articles 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.^[36]

Most articles have very low traffic. In 2023, 90% of articles averaged between zero and ten page views per day. The median 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, the mean is about 100 times the median.

Blocks

Between 2021 and 2024, ST47ProxyBot blocked millions of open proxies.^[37]

Source: Wikiscan

Protections

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 439,000 protections.^[38] The second and third most protected namespaces are templates (57,000 protections) and user talk pages (48,000 protections).^[38]

Source: Wikiscan

Deletions

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.^[39]

Source: Wikiscan

Featured content

As of 2026, featured articles comprise 6,879 out of a total of 7,150,440 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.

As of 2026, about half of articles are marked as stubs. The median article contains about 300–350 words, or 13 sentences. About half of articles contain four or fewer references. In addition, these articles may have images (usually zero or one), an infobox, or list content.

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All articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low ??? Total FA 1,648 2,606 2,488 2,114 187 9,043 FL 191 688 780 696 99 2,454 A 376 698 805 610 108 2,597 GA 3,472 7,925 15,948 22,022 1,908 51,275 B 18,049 35,428 59,356 82,226 26,909 221,968 C 17,969 58,378 148,765 363,361 104,972 693,445 Start 18,732 95,393 435,051 1,794,083 442,184 2,785,443 Stub 4,056 30,677 274,056 2,890,926 773,180 3,972,895 List 5,220 18,338 56,970 220,963 98,269 399,760 Assessed 69,713 250,131 994,219 5,377,001 1,447,816 8,138,880 Unassessed 113 395 1,033 13,835 353,742 369,118 Total 69,826 250,526 995,252 5,390,836 1,801,558 8,507,998 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

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Biases

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.^[40]

Vandalism

• This page shows the number of mainspace articles deleted each day.
• Statistics about Articles for Deletion discussions can be found at User:JPxG/Oracle.
• Statistics about deletion and other administrator actions can be found at the WP:Adminstats page.
• A list of recently deleted files can be found at Special:Log/delete.
• An outdated list of revision deletion statistics can be found here.
• A (currently broken) page that showed reverts over recent days using counter-vandalism tools (ClueBot NG, Huggle, STiki) and by other means.
• As of 2023, about 162,000 unique registered editors and 85,000 unique IP addresses have ever edited an AFD page (usually to comment). This represents 1 out of every 85 successful registered editors.

Wikiprojects

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.^[41]

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.^[42]