In the early days of the modern internet era, a project was started to develop a website that would stand as a crowdsourced repository of information. Wikipedia started off modestly, but quickly became the world’s online encyclopedia. Today, Wikipedia sees billions of pageviews and has tens of millions of users.
So just how big has Wikipedia become? Here are the more interesting stats and facts I was able to dig up for Wikipedia. As always, I will be adding more and updating these periodically as I find new stuff. Be sure to check back regularly.
Wikipedia Facts
- Website: wikipedia.org
- Launch year: 2001
- Owner: Wikimedia Foundation
- Creators: Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger
Wikipedia Statistics
Total number of Wikipedia users:
Last updated 12/8/18
Number of Wikipedia articles:
Last updated 12/8/18
Average number of monthly Wikipedia pageviews:
Last updated 1/15/16
Average number of new articles added to Wikipedia daily:
Last updated 5/19/18
Total number of edits to Wikipedia (all time):
Last updated 2/3/18
Wikipedia’s most visited page:
Number of English-language Wikipedia pages total:
Last updated 12/8/18
Percentage off Wikipedia users that are active editors:
Last updated 10/18/15
Number of Wikipedia active editors:
Last updated 5/19/18
Number of languages supported by Wikipedia:
Last updated 1/14/16
Percentage of Wikipedia articles that belong to the English-edition:
Last updated 1/17/16
Most-read article on Wikipedia in 2017:
Deaths in 2017 (37 million views)
Second most-read article on Wikipedia in 2017:
Donald Trump (29 million views)
This report is a digital collection of every Wikipedia statistic I have curated over the years as of May 2018. 30 of them including stats for:
- Users
- Articles
- Editors
- Fundraising
- Etc.- all in one place
I try to go through each and every stat regularly and update as much as possible, but we all know that some stats are easier to track down than others. As always, every stat is linked to its original source and has the source date listed.
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