Wikipedia:Statistics

Articles

As of 2026, the English Wikipedia has 7,184,429 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 141,788,253 free-to-use media files^[18] or around 924 TB.^[19] The English Wikipedia allows uploading files locally, though they must comply with the non-free content criteria, having 968,391 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 7,000 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 16 edits are submitted every second, over a third 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 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.^[35]

• 
  Page views of the English Wikipedia by country (March 2026)^[36]
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  Number of page views of the English Wikipedia per capita (April 2026)^[36][37]

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.^[38] 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.^[36][37]

The most viewed articles 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.^[40]

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.^[41]

Source: Wikiscan

Protections

On average, in the last years around 15–20 thousand protections to articles are done annually.^[42] From the beginning of the English Wikipedia, articles have received over 439,000 protections.^[42] The second and third most protected namespaces are templates (57,000 protections) and user talk pages (48,000 protections).^[42]

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.^[43]

Source: Wikiscan

New page review

Featured content

Total number of featured lists by year (in thousands)^[44]

Total number of featured pictures by year (in thousands)^[45]

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.

As of 2026, about a third of articles are marked as stubs.^[46] The median article contains about 300–350 words, or 13 sentences.^{[citation needed]} About half of articles contain four or fewer references.^{[citation needed]} In addition, these articles may have images (usually zero or one), an infobox, or list content.

Total number of stub articles by year (in thousands)^[47]

Share of stub articles by year (in %)^[47]

More information All articles by quality and importance, Quality ...

All articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low ??? Total FA 1,658 2,621 2,499 2,136 187 9,101 FL 193 688 788 699 99 2,467 A 375 701 808 613 111 2,608 GA 3,488 7,978 16,052 22,287 1,916 51,721 B 18,176 35,734 59,948 85,026 28,481 227,365 C 18,086 58,871 150,097 373,100 108,200 708,354 Start 18,772 95,724 436,785 1,824,234 447,013 2,822,528 Stub 4,041 30,619 273,941 2,901,865 790,518 4,000,984 List 5,258 18,442 57,247 223,317 99,942 404,206 Assessed 70,047 251,378 998,165 5,433,277 1,476,467 8,229,334 Unassessed 113 396 964 12,792 316,912 331,177 Total 70,160 251,774 999,129 5,446,069 1,793,379 8,560,511 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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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]

More information Vital article level, Target number of vital articles ...

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%)

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Citations

Number of articles with no sources by year (in thousands)^[a][48]

Number of articles with "citation needed"
templates by year (in thousands)^[49]

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.^[52]

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

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.^[53]

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.^[54]