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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 23 December 2024, there are 6,928,648 articles in the English Wikipedia containing over 4.7 billion words (giving a mean of about 688 words per article).
Currently, the English Wikipedia includes 6,928,501 articles [note 1] and it averages 530 new articles per day. In 2023 , 812,635 registered editors made at least one edit. This amount of data can be analyzed in many ways.
An image estimating the size of a printed version of Wikipedia as of February 2022. (Up-to-date image using volumes of Encyclopædia Britannica)Currently, the English Wikipedia alone has over 6,929,584 articles of any length, and the combined Wikipedias for all other languages greatly exceed the English Wikipedia in size, giving more than 29 billion words in 55 million articles in 309 ...
Wikipedia currently has more than sixty-four million articles in more than 300 languages, including 6,929,640 articles in English, with 119,004 active contributors in the past month. Wikipedia's fundamental principles are summarized in its five pillars.
As of December 2024, Wikipedia articles have been created in 353 editions, with 340 currently active and 13 closed. [ 4 ] The Meta-Wiki language committee manages policies on creating new Wikimedia projects .
Wikipedia articles are in constant need of maintenance. This ranges from minor edits correcting spelling and grammar, to major updates reflecting new events and new source material. Some articles may require being rewritten after some time, especially articles created about recent events.
Thus, the text of the English Wikipedia is currently equivalent to 3,575.6 volumes of Encyclopædia Britannica. In other words, Wikipedia is approximately 111.74 times the size of Encyclopædia Britannica and that's excluding pictures for Wikipedia. The total size would be 8.9 m 3.
There are 6,927,995 articles on the English Wikipedia, and 50,000 (circa 0.73%) have been selected as vital articles to the project. They are organized into five levels: Level 1 contains the ten most vital articles, Level 2 contains the one hundred most vital articles (and by definition, includes the articles of Level 1), and each further level expands on the selection of the previous level ...