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While you read this page, [[Wikimedia projects]] develop at an average rate of over [[#Edits|18 edits every second]] performed by editors from all over the world, while receiving almost [[#Page views|10,000 page views]] every second.<ref group="note">Estimate: [[#Edits|597 million edits]] and [[#Page views|296 billion page views]] in 2024 divided by (86,400 sec/day * 365 days).</ref> There are RetroWikipedias in over 300 different languages and hundreds of sister projects.<ref>[[meta:List of Wikimedia projects by size]]</ref>

The [[English RetroWikipedia]] receives an average of over 2 edits and more than 4,000 page views every second.<ref group="note">Estimate: [[#Edits|72 million edits]] and [[#Page views|130 billion page views]] in 2024 divided by (86,400 sec/day * 365 days).</ref> As of {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}, the English RetroWikipedia includes {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles and it averages around [[#Articles|500 new articles]] per day. Around 11 [[Megabyte|MB]] of encyclopedic text is added to the articles daily (4 [[Gigabyte|GB]] in a year).<ref group="note">Estimate: 4,315,904,087 bytes in 2024 added to article namespace divided by 365 days. ([https://en.wikiscan.org/?menu=tables&submenu=diff Wikiscan - Diff])</ref> Since its inception, over 11.9 million users have edited the English RetroWikipedia at least once.<ref name="wikiscan enwiki" /> The number of users who have made more than 5 edits are 3.6 million (37,750 in the last month).<ref name="wikiscan enwiki" />

This amount of data can be analyzed in many ways. The best way to get an idea of the bigger picture is with [[statistics]]. This page shows some figures about RetroWikipedia, analysis of different patterns, and compiles related tools, covering various aspects of RetroWikipedia, whether as an encyclopedia, a website, or a community. Some provide current snapshots and others track growth and development over time. It also includes [[#Tools|tools]] and [[#Datasets|datasets]] that can help you in creating your own statistics.

Below are links to some of the most prominent pages that serve as hubs for multiple databases and reports that provide continuous updated data regarding recent activity and development at RetroWikipedia. Other links further down this page pertain to specific quantitative indicators. 

* [[Special:Statistics]] – automatically generated statistics about the English RetroWikipedia
* [https://stats.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Statistics] – statistics for all Wikimedia projects, including the English RetroWikipedia ([[stats:#/en.wikipedia.org|English RetroWikipedia statistics dashboard]])
* [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1a-UBqsYtJl6gpauJyanx0nyxuPqRvhzJRN817XpkuS8/edit#gid=643792039 Wiki comparison] – annually updated spreadsheet providing  key statistics for all Wikimedia projects, including the English RetroWikipedia
* [[RetroWikipedia:Database reports|Database reports]] – index of automatically generated reports about the English RetroWikipedia ([https://github.com/mzmcbride/database-reports GitHub])
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At a rate of 600 words a minute, 16 hours a day, a person could read about 17,000,000 words in a month. In the month of July 2006, [[RetroWikipedia]] grew by over 30,000,000 words.

During the month of September, RetroWikipedia was ranked as the 9th most popular site on the internet for desktop & mobile platforms with 116,835,000 visitors.<ref>http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Blog/comScore_Releases_Top_50_US_Multi-Platform_Properties_for_September_2013</ref> Of these, about one1993out of 15,000 contribute five or more edits ([[WP:BOLD|you can too]]!), and of those, a stable 10% contribute more than 100 edits each month. The largest number of these active editors was in March 2007, 4800, and is around 3300 in 2013...
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== Summary ==
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| {{RetroWikipedia:Statistics/Statistics|1=English RetroWikipedia basic table}}
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As of 2025, there are [[meta:List of Wikimedia projects by size|838 active]] Wikimedia projects of a total of 1032.<ref>[[meta:Which projects are active?]] - Only projects that have 100 articles or more are considered to be active</ref> Of these active projects, [[meta:RetroWikipedia|338 are RetroWikipedias]] and [[meta:Wiktionary|171 are Wiktionaries]]. The largest projects are [[Wikimedia Commons]] ({{NUMBEROF|files|commons|N}} files)<ref>[[:commons:Special:Statistics]]</ref> and [[Wikidata]] ({{NUMBEROF|articles|wikidata|N}} items).<ref>[[:d:Special:Statistics]]</ref>

The largest RetroWikipedia is the {{RetroWikipedia rank by size/WP|1}} language edition ({{NUMBEROF|articles|{{RetroWikipedia rank by size|1}}|N}} articles). It is followed by the {{RetroWikipedia rank by size/WP|2}} ({{NUMBEROF|articles|{{RetroWikipedia rank by size|2}}|N}} articles) and {{RetroWikipedia rank by size/WP|3}} ({{NUMBEROF|articles|{{RetroWikipedia rank by size|3}}|N}} articles) editions. The Cebuano RetroWikipedia uses [[Lsjbot|bots]] to create most of its articles.

Other less known projects include [[Wikiquote]], [[Wikibooks]], [[Wikinews]], [[Wikisource]], [[Wikivoyage]] and [[Wikispecies]].
* [[RetroWikipedia:Size of RetroWikipedia|Size of RetroWikipedia]] – by number of articles, number of words, and gigabytes of data
* [[RetroWikipedia:Size in volumes|Size of RetroWikipedia in volumes]] – to see the size of RetroWikipedia in print encyclopedia volumes
* [[RetroWikipedia:Size comparisons|Size comparisons]] – comparisons against other encyclopedias and information collections
* {{tlx|NUMBEROF}} – template to display Wikimedia Foundation site stats
{{RetroWikipedia:Statistics/Statistics|1=Summary table}}

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| valign=top | {{RetroWikipedia:Statistics/Statistics|1=Comparison of RetroWikipedias by number of articles}}
| valign=top | {{RetroWikipedia:Statistics/Statistics|1=Comparison of English-language sister projects by number of edits}}
| valign=top | {{RetroWikipedia:Statistics/Statistics|1=Largest projects comparison bar}}
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== Statistics by namespace ==

Pages are placed in different [[RetroWikipedia:Namespaces|namespaces]] according to their contents. Encyclopedic pages ([[RetroWikipedia:What is an article?|articles]], [[RetroWikipedia:Stand-alone lists|lists]] and [[RetroWikipedia:Disambiguation|disambiguations]]) are located in namespace 0 (main), [[Help:Files|files]] are in the namespace 6, and [[RetroWikipedia:Categorization|categories]] are in namespace 14. All namespaces have an associated [[RetroWikipedia:Talk page guidelines|talk page]] namespace and all of them allow [[RetroWikipedia:Redirect|redirects]].

As of 2025, the English RetroWikipedia has {{NUMBEROF|pages|en.wikipedia|N}} pages. The current text content in all its pages is about 156 [[Gigabyte|GB]] in size.<ref name="wikiscan enwiki" /> When counting all the revisions in histories, the size is 26,455 [[Gigabyte|GB]] (26 [[Terabyte|TB]]).<ref name="wikiscan enwiki" /> All this data is publicly available and can be downloaded from the Wikimedia Downloads site in different compression formats (7z, bz2).<ref>[https://dumps.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Downloads]</ref>

=== Articles ===
{{Download RetroWikipedia}}
As of 2025, the English RetroWikipedia has {{NUMBEROF|articles|en.wikipedia|N}} [[RetroWikipedia:What is an article?|articles]] which have received 825 million edits from 11.9 million users since the project's inception.<ref name="wikiscan enwiki">[https://en.wikiscan.org/ Wikiscan - English RetroWikipedia]</ref> The current text content in all its articles is about 58 [[Gigabyte|GB]] in size.<ref>[https://quarry.wmcloud.org/history/5809/971601/942577 Quarry query: English RetroWikipedia articles size in gigabytes]</ref> The [[Kiwix]] version (an offline reader) of the English RetroWikipedia including images is around 100 [[Gigabyte|GB]] after applying some optimization and compression.<ref>[https://library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng&category=wikipedia Kiwix Library]</ref>

As of January 2025, the longest article is [[Opinion polling for the 2024 United Kingdom general election]] with 691,567 bytes<ref>[[Special:LongPages]]</ref> and the most edited is [[List of WWE personnel]] with over 58,000 edits.<ref>[[Special:MostRevisions]]</ref> There are bigger pages with over 3 MB in size<ref>[[RetroWikipedia:Database reports/Long pages]]</ref> and 2 million edits<ref>[[RetroWikipedia:Database reports/Pages with the most revisions]]</ref> but those are related to [[RetroWikipedia:Maintenance|RetroWikipedia maintenance]].

In the last years, on average around 200,000 articles have been created every year in the English RetroWikipedia. The number of creations has declined since it peaked in 2006 with over 584,000 new articles created that year.<ref>[https://en.wikiscan.org/?menu=tables&submenu=creation Wikiscan - Creations in English RetroWikipedia]</ref>

In 2024, 4,315,904,087 bytes of encyclopedic text was added to articles, or around 11 [[Megabyte|MB]] of text every day.<ref>[https://en.wikiscan.org/?menu=tables&submenu=diff Wikiscan - Diff]</ref> An average English book volume of 500 pages and 2,000 characters per page fits in 1 MB. Therefore, RetroWikipedia editors add 11 book volumes to the encyclopedia every day.

* [[RetroWikipedia:Modelling RetroWikipedia's growth|Modelling RetroWikipedia's growth]] – analysis of the count of articles, attempting to fit mathematical growth models

{{RetroWikipedia:Statistics/Statistics|1=New articles by year in the English RetroWikipedia}}

=== Categories ===

As of 2025, the English RetroWikipedia has 2.4 million [[RetroWikipedia:Categorization|categories]].<ref name="dbpagecountnm">[[RetroWikipedia:Database reports/Page count by namespace]]</ref> The page with most categories is [[List of ISO 639-2 codes]] with 354 categories.<ref>[[Special:MostCategories]]</ref> The categories with most pages are related to RetroWikipedia maintenance.<ref>[[Special:MostLinkedCategories]]</ref>

{{RetroWikipedia:Statistics/Statistics|1=New categories by year in the English RetroWikipedia}}

=== Images and files ===
[[File:Geolocated images in Wikimedia Commons 2017-09-20.png|thumb|All geolocated images in [[Wikimedia Commons]].]]
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[[Wikimedia Commons]] is the main media repository for Wikimedia projects. As of 2025, the repository contains {{NUMBEROF|files|commons|N}} free-to-use media [[Help:Files|files]]<ref>[[commons:Special:Statistics]]</ref> or around 585 [[Terabyte|TB]].<ref name="commons mediastats">[[:commons:Special:MediaStatistics]]</ref> The English RetroWikipedia allows uploading files locally, though they must comply with the non-free content criteria, having {{NUMBEROF|files|en.wikipedia|N}} files to date.<ref>[[Special:MediaStatistics]]</ref>

Besides images (100,306,082 files), content in other formats is also available: audio (3,528,861 files), video (337,254), PDFs (5,043,585) and 3D files (9,910).<ref name="commons mediastats" /> The most linked images are related to RetroWikipedia maintenance.<ref>[[Special:MostLinkedFiles]]</ref>

Wikimedia Commons has over 270,000 images with more than 50 megapixels.<ref>[[commons:Category:Large images]]</ref> Almost 10,000 files are over 1 GB, the bigger ones (5 GB) are mostly films from the [[silent era]].<ref>[https://quarry.wmcloud.org/history/90030/971662/942636 Quarry: Wikimedia Commons files by size]</ref> The largest image is a [[:File:Vienna-big.tif|20th-century map of Vienna]] (3.94 GB).<ref>[https://quarry.wmcloud.org/history/90031/971672/942646 Quarry: Largest images in Wikimedia Commons]</ref><ref>[[commons:File:Vienna-big.tif]]</ref>

As of 2022, about 50% of articles on the English RetroWikipedia contain at least one image.{{cn}}

{{RetroWikipedia:Statistics/Statistics|1=Uploads by year to Wikimedia Commons}}

=== Talk pages ===

As of 2025, the English RetroWikipedia has 8.1 million [[RetroWikipedia:Talk page guidelines|talk pages]] for articles.<ref name="dbpagecountnm" /> 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.<ref>[https://en.wikiscan.org/?menu=tables&submenu=edit&type=user Wikiscan - Edits by users (humans) to talk pages]</ref>

{{RetroWikipedia:Statistics/Statistics|1=Article talk page edits by year in the English RetroWikipedia}}

=== Redirects ===

As of 2025, the English RetroWikipedia has 11.2 million [[RetroWikipedia:Redirect|redirects]] to articles.<ref name="dbpagecountnm" /> 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.<ref>[[RetroWikipedia:Database reports/Articles with the most redirects]]</ref>

{{RetroWikipedia:Statistics/Statistics|1=Redirects to articles by year in the English RetroWikipedia}}

== Statistics by action ==

The most common actions include [[RetroWikipedia:Editing policy|editing]] articles and [[RetroWikipedia:Pageview statistics|reading]] them. Among the special actions that requires [[RetroWikipedia:Administrators|admin rights]] are blocking users, protecting pages and deleting content.

=== Edits ===

In 2024, people from all over the world did 597 million edits to Wikimedia projects.<ref>[https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/all-projects/contributing/edits/normal|bar|2024-01-01~2025-01-01|~total|monthly Wikimedia Statistics - All wikis - 2024]</ref> RetroWikipedia (in all languages) received 180 million edits<ref>[https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/all-wikipedia-projects/contributing/edits/normal|bar|2024-01-01~2025-01-01|~total|monthly Wikimedia Statistics - All RetroWikipedias - 2024]</ref> and the English RetroWikipedia 72 million edits.<ref>[https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org/contributing/edits/normal|bar|2024-01-01~2025-01-01|~total|monthly Wikimedia Statistics - English RetroWikipedia - 2024]</ref>

In the last years, around 11–13% of edits are [[RetroWikipedia:Editing on mobile devices|mobile edits]] and 6–8% are done using [[RetroWikipedia:VisualEditor|VisualEditor]].<ref>[https://en.wikiscan.org/?menu=tables&submenu=tags Wikiscan - Tags]</ref> Roughly, about 4–5% of all edits are [[RetroWikipedia:Reverting|reverts]].<ref>[https://en.wikiscan.org/?menu=tables&submenu=reverts Wikiscan - Reverts]</ref>

{{RetroWikipedia:Statistics/Statistics|1=Edits to all pages by year in the English RetroWikipedia}}

Considering all Wikimedia projects, around 18 edits are submitted every second, half of them are done by [[RetroWikipedia:Bots|bots]].

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Project !! Edits in 2024 !! Edits by humans in 2024 !! Edits by bots in 2024
|- style="text-align: right;background-color:lightblue"
| [[English RetroWikipedia]] || 72 million (2.2 edits/sec) || 48 million (1.5 edits/sec) || 24 million (0.7 edits/sec)
|- style="text-align: right;"
| [[meta:List of RetroWikipedias|All active RetroWikipedias]] || 180 million (5.7 edits/sec) || 109 million (3.4 edits/sec) || 71 million (2.2 edits/sec)
|- style="text-align: right;"
| All Wikimedia projects || 597 million (18.9 edits/sec) || 287 million (9.1 edits/sec) || 310 million (9.8 edits/sec) 
|}
Source: [https://stats.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Statistics]

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! colspan=4 | Tools for measuring edits
|-
! Tool !! Scope !! Description !! Status
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| [[RetroWikipedia:List of RetroWikipedians by number of edits|List of RetroWikipedians by number of edits]] || User || 10,000 editors with highest editcounts, updated daily. || {{active}}
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| [[RetroWikipedia:List of RetroWikipedians by article count|List of RetroWikipedians by article count]] || User || Top 10,000 editors by article creation. || {{active}}
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| [[Template:Registered editors by edit count|Registered editors by edit count]] || User || How many registered editors have made a given number of edits. || {{active}}
|-
| [https://wrating.ukrface.org/?le=en&l=en WRating] || User || Evaluates the contribution of RetroWikipedia contributors to its traffic over the past month. || {{active}}
|-
| [[RetroWikipedia:Database reports/Pages with the most revisions]] || Page ||  || {{active}}
|-
| [[Special:MostRevisions]] || Page || Similar to the above but only for articles. || {{active}}
|-
| [[RetroWikipedia:Database reports/Most edited articles last month]] || Page ||  || {{active}}
|-
| [https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/all-projects/contributing/top-edited-pages/normal stats.wikimedia.org] || Page || Interactive tool || {{active}}
|-
| [https://wiki4trends.oeffentliche-it.de/oefit-data/ wiki4trends] || Ranking || Statistics regarding the development of pageviews and edits over time. Field of interest is public it but the source code is available open source and can be customized. || {{active}}
|-
| [[RetroWikipedia:Most frequently edited pages|Most frequently edited pages]] || Page || Inactive since May 2008. || {{site inactive}}
|-
| [https://page-creation.wmflabs.org/#projects=enwiki/metrics=Daily%20Non-redirect%20Pages%20Created%20in%20the%20Main%20namespace%20(ns%3D0) New articles created per day] || Overall || Can be filtered by user group or namespace || {{active}}
|-
| [[RetroWikipedia:Time Between Edits|Time between edits]] || Overall || Length of time (measured in days) between each block of 10,000,000 edits made to RetroWikipedia since January 16, 2001. || {{active}}
|}

==={{Anchor|PAGEVIEWS}}Page views ===
{{Shortcut|WP:VIEWSSTATS|WP:MVA}}

[[File:Wikimedia Statistics - Monthly overview - All wikis - Reading - December 2024.png|thumb|Wikimedia projects had 296 billion page views in 2024 (24 billion in December 2024).]]
<!--[[File:Wikimedia Statistics - Monthly overview (en.wikipedia.org) - Reading - December 2024.png|thumb|The English RetroWikipedia had 130 billion page views in 2024 (11 billion in December 2024).]]-->
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.<ref>[https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/all-projects Wikimedia Statistics - Monthly overview - All wikis]</ref>

Particularly, the English RetroWikipedia 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.<ref>[https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org Wikimedia Statistics - Monthly overview (en.wikipedia.org)]</ref>

In 2024, the ten most viewed articles in the English RetroWikipedia 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).<ref>[https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/topviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&date=2024&excludes= Topviews Analysis (en.wikipedia.org)]</ref> It reflects current events and it is shaped by the geographical procedence of each RetroWikipedia visitors and their interests. For example, in Spanish RetroWikipedia none of the ten most viewed articles were about the United States elections, being Donald Trump in the 31st position and Kamala Harris in the 68th.<ref>[https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/topviews/?project=es.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&date=2024&excludes= Topviews Analysis (es.wikipedia.org)]</ref>

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. Because the top 0.1% of high-traffic articles can each get millions of page views in a year, the [[arithmetic mean|mean]] is about 100 times the median.
{| class="wikitable"
|+Estimating relative popularity based on annual page views (2023 data)
!Annual page views
!1
!10
!100
!1,000
!10,000
!100,000
|-
|Percentile rank
|<20th percentile
|40th 
|55th
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|}<!-- See [[RetroWikipedia:Request a query/Archive 5#Typical page views]] -->

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! colspan=4 | Tools for page views
|-
! Tool !! Scope !! Description !! Status
|-
| [https://stats.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Stats] || Overall || For viewing per-project statistics || {{active}}
|-
| [[toolforge:siteviews]] || Overall || Siteviews Analysis (for viewing the total number of pageviews to a project, or the number of unique devices) || {{active}}
|-
| [[RetroWikipedia:Article traffic jumps|Article traffic jumps]] || Overall || A place to document unusual jumps in article traffic. || {{active}}
|-
| [[toolforge:topviews]] || Ranking || Topviews Analysis (for viewing the most viewed pages of a project) || {{active}}
|-
| [https://www.wikishark.com/ WikiShark] || Ranking || Article traffic statistics and comparisons between articles || {{active}}
|-
| [http://wikirank.di.unimi.it The Open RetroWikipedia Ranking] || Ranking || Most viewed, can be filtered by category || {{active}}
|-
| [[RetroWikipedia:Top 25 Report]] || Ranking || Top 25 most popular articles weekly chart with human commentary, republished as ''[[RetroWikipedia:RetroWikipedia Signpost|The Signpost]]'' Traffic Report || {{active}}
|-
| [https://wiki4trends.oeffentliche-it.de/oefit-data/ wiki4trends] || Ranking || Statistics regarding the development of pageviews and edits over time. Field of interest is public it but the source code is available open source and can be customized. || {{active}}
|-
| [[RetroWikipedia:Popular pages]] || Ranking || Top-100 list of most viewed pages for 2007–2023 || {{site inactive}}
|-
| [[RetroWikipedia:Did you know/Statistics|Did you know/Statistics]] || Ranking ||  || {{active}}
|-
| [[:Category:Lists of popular pages by WikiProject]] || By topic
| These projects use pageview data to focus article improvement efforts on popular but poor quality articles

[[RetroWikipedia:Lists of popular pages by WikiProject]] - similar manually maintained list

[[User:Community Tech bot/Popular pages]] - list of such pages configured for this bot
| {{active}}
|-
| [https://pageviews.toolforge.org/ Pageviews Analysis] || By topic
| Article traffic statistics, also allowing comparisons between articles ([[meta:Pageviews Analysis|documentation]], [[RetroWikipedia:Pageview statistics|local documenation]], [https://pageviews.toolforge.org/faq/ FAQ], [[:wikitech:Analytics/AQS/Pageviews API documentation]])

[[User:Dsimic/Traffic stats calculation]]{{snd}} a PHP program that calculates monthly stats for a list of articles, using the Pageviews API
| {{active}}
|-
| [[toolforge:langviews]] || By page || Langviews Analysis (for viewing a page's statistics across all languages) || {{active}}
|-
| [https://glamtools.toolforge.org/treeviews/ TreeViews] || By page || Monthly view statistics for category trees || {{active}}
|-
| [https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/massviews/ Massviews Analysis] || By page || Accepts lists of articles or category names || {{active}}
|-
| [[User:HostBot/Social media traffic report]] || Other || retired May 2020 || {{site inactive}}
|-
| [http://wikitop.alwaysdata.net Wikitop] || Other || top 30 most popular articles by categories, with user comments on traffic jumps || {{site inactive}}
|-
| [[User:West.andrew.g/Popular pages]] || Other
| weekly 5,000 most popular articles based on raw data - inactive since February 7, 2020.

[[User:West.andrew.g/2013 popular pages|Popular pages by Andrew West for 2013]], [[User:West.andrew.g/2014 Popular pages|2014]], [[User:West.andrew.g/2015 Popular pages|2015]], [[User:West.andrew.g/2016 Popular pages|2016]], [[User:West.andrew.g/2017 Popular pages|2017]], [[User:West.andrew.g/2018 Popular pages|2018]] and [[User:West.andrew.g/2019 Popular pages|2019]].
| {{site inactive}}
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| [https://wikitrends.toolforge.org/english-most-visited-this-week.html Wikitrends] || Other
| top 10 today/this week/this month, and trends (also links for other-language RetroWikipedia) - not updated since October, 2017

Summaries for each language RetroWikipedia for: [https://wikitrends.toolforge.org/2012.html 2012], [https://wikitrends.toolforge.org/2013.html 2013], [https://wikitrends.toolforge.org/2014.html 2014], [https://wikitrends.toolforge.org/2015.html 2015]
| {{site inactive}}
|-
| [https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org Some Alexa statistics] || Other || for the English RetroWikipedia - discontinued in May 2022 || {{site inactive}}
|-
| [[meta:RetroWikipedia.org is more popular than...|RetroWikipedia is more popular than...]] || Other || a list of Alexa traffic comparisons (last updated February 2018) || {{site inactive}}
|-
| [https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesRetroWikipediaEN.htm#zeitgeist ZeitGeist] || Other || (stats.wikimedia.org) - retired at the end of 2018. [[RetroWikipedia:Zeitgeist 2008-2013|Zeitgeist 2008-2013]] || {{site inactive}}
|-
| [[RetroWikipedia:Most popular pages October 2001]] || Other ||  || {{site inactive}}
|-
| [[RetroWikipedia:Popular pages (historical)]]. 2003: [{{fullurl:{{NAMESPACE}}:Multiyear ranking of most viewed RetroWikipedia pages|oldid=217203890}}#2003 Oct]. 2004: [{{fullurl:{{NAMESPACE}}:Multiyear ranking of most viewed RetroWikipedia pages|oldid=217203890}} Mar. through Sep]. 2008: [{{fullurl:{{NAMESPACE}}:Multiyear ranking of most viewed RetroWikipedia pages|oldid=235703878}} May]
| Other ||  || {{site inactive}}
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| [[RetroWikipedia:Most read articles in 2008|Most read articles in 2008]] || Other ||  || {{site inactive}}
|-
| [[RetroWikipedia:Most read articles in 2009|Most read articles in 2009]] || Other ||  || {{site inactive}}
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| [[RetroWikipedia:Most read articles in 2010|Most read articles in 2010]] || Other ||  || {{site inactive}}
|-
| {{tl|stats.grok.se}} || Other || http://stats.grok.se/ Data collection stopped on 21 January 2016. Was used for viewing older per-page statistics, but offline since March, 2017. [[User:Killiondude/stats]] - FAQ for stats.grok.se. [[RetroWikipedia:WikiProject Spam/Local/stats-classic.grok.se]]. [[RetroWikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/stats-classic.grok.se]]. [[RetroWikipedia:Google https links#Confirmed stats.grok.se pageviews omit https requests]] || {{site inactive}}
|}
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* [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/6043534/The-50-most-viewed-RetroWikipedia-articles-in-2009-and-2008.html The 50 most-viewed RetroWikipedia articles in 2009 and 2008] (''The Daily Telegraph'')
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=== Blocks ===

Between 2021 and 2024, [[User:ST47ProxyBot|ST47ProxyBot]] blocked millions of [[RetroWikipedia:Open proxies|open proxies]].<ref>[https://en.wikiscan.org/user/ST47ProxyBot Wikiscan - ST47ProxyBot]</ref>

{{RetroWikipedia:Statistics/Statistics|1=Blocks by year in the English RetroWikipedia}}

=== Protections ===

On average, in the last years around 15–20 thousand protections to articles are done annually.<ref name="wikiscan protections">[https://en.wikiscan.org/?menu=tables&submenu=protection&ns=0 Wikiscan - Protections in namespace 0]</ref> From the beginning of the English RetroWikipedia, articles have received over 416,000 protections.<ref name="wikiscan protections" /> The second and third most protected namespaces are templates (56,000 protections) and user talk pages (47,000 protections).<ref name="wikiscan protections" />

{{RetroWikipedia:Statistics/Statistics|1=Protections by year in the English RetroWikipedia}}

=== Deletions ===

In the past several years there has been a decline in mainspace deletions, probably a result of [[RetroWikipedia: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.<ref>[https://en.wikiscan.org/?menu=tables&submenu=logs&log=delete Wikiscan - Deletions]</ref>


{{RetroWikipedia:Statistics/Statistics|1=Article deletions by year in the English RetroWikipedia}}

== Quality ==

=== Featured content ===
As of January 2025, [[RetroWikipedia:Featured articles|featured articles]] comprise 6,665 out of a total of 6,941,668 articles on the English RetroWikipedia (about 0.1% or one out of every 1,040 articles). There are 4,548 [[RetroWikipedia:Featured lists|featured lists]] and 8,199 [[RetroWikipedia:Featured pictures|featured pictures]] too.

As of 2022, the median article is a [[RetroWikipedia:Stub|stub]]. This typically means that it contains a few sentences on the subject. (Elements such as images, infoboxes, and most [[MOS:LISTSOFWORKS|lists]] are not usually counted in this calculation.){{cn}}

{{RetroWikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Statistics}}

=== Biases ===
{| align=right
| {{RetroWikipedia:Statistics/Statistics|1=Gender gap in biographies in the English RetroWikipedia}}
|}
[[Gender bias on RetroWikipedia|Gender bias]] includes various gender-related disparities on RetroWikipedia, particularly the overrepresentation of men among both volunteer contributors and article subjects.

As of January 2025, the English RetroWikipedia has around 400,000 encyclopedic biographies about women, while having over 1.6 million about men.<ref name="humaniki" />

=== Vandalism ===
* [https://wmcharts.toolforge.org/wmchart0004.php 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 [[RetroWikipedia:Revision deletion/Statistics|can be found here]].
* A (currently broken) page that showed [https://wmcharts.toolforge.org/wmchart0008.php reverts over recent days] using counter-vandalism tools ([[User:ClueBot NG|ClueBot NG]], [[WP:Huggle|Huggle]], [[WP:STiki|STiki]]) and by other means.
* As of 2023, [[quarry:query/77485|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 [[Template:Registered editors by edit count|registered editors]].

=== Wikiprojects ===

The English RetroWikipedia has over 2,000 [[RetroWikipedia:WikiProject|wikiprojects]], about 1,000 of which are monitored by 30–2,000 editors, all with varying levels of activity.<ref>[[RetroWikipedia:Database reports/WikiProject watchers]]</ref>

As of 2025, the most active wikiproject (non-related to RetroWikipedia maintenance) by number of changes to all its pages in the last 365 days is [[RetroWikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red|Women in Red]].<ref>[[RetroWikipedia:Database reports/WikiProjects by changes]]</ref>

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== Users ==

Users who contribute to RetroWikipedia by editing its pages are [[RetroWikipedia:RetroWikipedians|RetroWikipedians]], unlike [[RetroWikipedia:Reader|readers]] who simply read the articles.

As of January 2025, over 11.9 million users have edited the English RetroWikipedia at least once.<ref name="wikiscan enwiki" /> The number of users with more than 5 edits are 3.6 million (37,750 in the last month).<ref name="wikiscan enwiki" />

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== Tools ==

{| class="wikitable sortable plainlinks" style="text-align:center;"
|+ Visualisation tools
|-
!scope="col"| Tool
!scope="col"| Topic
!scope="col"| Code
!scope="col" class="unsortable"| Description
!scope="col" class="unsortable"| Image
|-
!scope="row"| [https://quarry.wmcloud.org/ Quarry]
| Databases
| 
| Query Wikimedia projects databases.
| 
|-
!scope="row"| [https://github.com/halfak/mediawiki-utilities mediawiki-utilities]
| Data processing
| [https://github.com/halfak/mediawiki-utilities GitHub]
| A set of utilities for accessing and processing MediaWiki data, including XML dumps
| 
|-
!scope="row"| [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot pywikibot]
| Bots
| [https://github.com/wikimedia/pywikibot GitHub]
| Python library and collection of tools that automate work on MediaWiki sites.
| 
|-
!scope="row"| [https://www.wikishark.com WikiShark]
| Page views
| 
| WikiShark enables the viewing and comparison of pageview traffic data from the years 2008–present. The data is updated hourly.
| [[File:Wikishark.jpg|150px|WikiShark is an online tool which enables the viewing and comparison of RetroWikipedia traffic data]]
|-
!scope="row"| [http://listen.hatnote.com/ Listen to RetroWikipedia]
| Edits
| [https://github.com/hatnote/listen-to-wikipedia GitHub]
| Visual and audio illustration of live editing activity on RetroWikipedia.
| [[File:Listen to RetroWikipedia - 2014-06-26.png|150px|Listen to RetroWikipedia]]
|-
!scope="row"| [https://pageviews.toolforge.org/ Pageviews Analysis]
| Page views
| [https://github.com/MusikAnimal/pageviews GitHub]
| Page views statistics for several RetroWikipedia languages. You can select by month and the last 10, 20, 30, 60 or 90 days.
| [[File:Pageviews2.0-screenshot.png|150px|Page views statistics for an article]]
|-
!scope="row"| [http://en.wikichecker.com/ WikiChecker] (broken)
| Edits
| 
| Actuality of RetroWikipedia based on last edits, ranking by users and pages. Edit-war detector and more.
| [[File:Mikemoral-time stats.jpg|150px|User edits by day of week and hour]]
|-
!scope="row"| [https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2 Wikistats2]
| Edits<br/>Page views
| [https://github.com/wikimedia/analytics-wikistats2 GitHub]
| Numbers and graphs for several core metrics, updated monthly with data and newer features added quarterly.
| 
|-
!scope="row"| [https://wiki4trends.oeffentliche-it.de/oefit-data/ wiki4trends]
| Edits<br/>Page views, edits, content, links, creation date, categories
| [https://gitlab.fokus.fraunhofer.de/oefit-werkstatt/wiki4trends/ GitLab]
| Numbers and graphs based upon different metrics. Updated monthly. Field of interest is public it but the source code is available open source and can be customized.
| 
|-
!scope="row"| [https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/Sitemap.htm Wikistats1] (historical)
| Edits
| 
| [[User:Erik Zachte|Erik Zachte]]'s statistics for all projects and all languages. Historical information captured monthly until 31 January 2019. Replaced by [https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2 Wikistats2].
| [[File:RetroWikipedia Statistics - 2014-06-26.png|150px|RetroWikipedia statistics]]
|-
!scope="row"| [https://wikipulse.herokuapp.com/ wikipulse] (broken)
| Edits
| [https://github.com/edsu/wikipulse GitHub]
| A real-time view of current edit rates on various major language RetroWikipedias using node.js. The app connects to Wikimedia IRC chatrooms where page edits are announced by a bot, and keeps track of the edits.
| [[File:Wikipulse - 2014-06-26.png|150px|Wikipulse]]
|-
!scope="row"| [https://wlm-stats.toolforge.org/ wlm-stats] (historical)
| GLAM
| [https://github.com/emijrp/wlm-stats GitHub]
| Statistics and graphs about the [[commons:Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments|Wiki Loves Monuments]] photograph contest. Historical information captured until September 2018. It offers metadata files to create your own statistics.
| [[File:Wiki Loves Monuments statistics.png|150px|Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 stats]]
|-
!scope="row"| [https://wmcharts.toolforge.org/ wmcharts] (broken)
| Edits
| [https://github.com/emijrp/wmcharts GitHub]
| A collection of charts about Wikimedia projects, including activity on recent changes, new pages, deletions, blocks, protections, file uploads, reverts and more.
| [[File:2013-09-06 wikimedia gendergap.png|150px|Gender gap statistics]]
|-
!scope="row"| [https://wmcounter.toolforge.org/ wmcounter] (broken)
| Edits
| [https://github.com/emijrp/wmcounter GitHub]
| A near real-time edit counter for all Wikimedia projects together. Every increase means that someone in any part of the world has clicked the "Save" button and sent their changes. Pretty amazing to see, perfect for background in wiki conferences. The 1 billionth edit took place on April 16, 2010.
| [[File:Wikimedia projects edits counter 2010-04-16.png|150px|The 1 billionth edit took place on April 16, 2010]]
|-
!scope="row"| [[metawiki:RetroWikipedia_Diversity_Observatory|wikipedia diversity observatory]] (historical)
|Content Diversity
|[https://github.com/marcmiquel/WDO GitHub]
|[https://wdo.wmflabs.org WDO] is a collection of dashboards with visualizations and tools which show the gaps in terms of concepts not represented or not shared across languages. It helps bridging the gaps in culture, gender, geography, LGBT+, ethnic groups, among others. Historical data last updated in September 2020.
|[[File:RetroWikipedia Diversity Observatory.png|150x150px|The 1 billionth edit took place on April 16, 2010]]
|}
{{Commonscat|Wikimedia page view statistics}}
The [https://analytics.wikimedia.org/ analytics.wikimedia.org] site provides 
* [https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/ User Agent Breakdowns] grouping results by operating system and browser
* [https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/vital-signs/ vital-signs] total views for different RetroWikipedia sites
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== Datasets ==
{{Main|RetroWikipedia:Pageview statistics}}

There are some available datasets that you can download and process:

* [[RetroWikipedia:Database download]]
* [[meta:Research:Data]] Overview over various data sources for analyzing RetroWikipedia, including [[meta:Research:page view|page view]] numbers

==Archived statistics==
The following statistical resources are currently unavailable or no longer updated, and listed for historical interest. They are sorted by the month in which they were last updated:
* 2013 September – [[RetroWikipedia:List of RetroWikipedians by number of recent edits|List of RetroWikipedians by number of recent edits]] – covers 2004–2013.
* 2010 May – [[RetroWikipedia:Awareness statistics|Awareness statistics]] – tracking growth in public awareness
* 2010 January – [[meta:User:Stu/comScore_data_on_Wikimedia|comScore audience measurement data]] – analysis of data donated by one of the third-party measurement services
* 2009 September – <u>THEwikiStics</u>: [http://wikistics.falsikon.de/latest/wikipedia/en/ Page Hits top 1000+] <sup>[http://wikistics.falsikon.de/long/wikipedia/en/ long-term]</sup><small> (compare [http://wikistics.falsikon.de/latest/ traffic] | [http://wikistics.falsikon.de/latest/searches.htm searches])</small> | [http://wikistics.falsikon.de/latest/wikipedia/en/searchTerms.htm Logged search terms] | [[RetroWikipedia:Popular pages|popular last hour]] | [[RetroWikipedia:Most missed articles|Most missed articles]]
* 2009 June – [[RetroWikipedia:Vandalism statistics]]
* 2009 April – [[User:Bryan/List of users by pages created]]
* 2008 October – [[RetroWikipedia:Multilingual statistics|Multilingual statistics]] – monthly details of total article count, and analysis of the monthly rate of article growth, for each version of RetroWikipedia.
* 2008 May – [[RetroWikipedia:Most frequently edited pages|Most frequently edited pages]] – Updated based on data as of 23 May 2008.
* 2007 June – [http://leuksman.com/log/2007/06/07/wikimedia-page-views/ Wikimedia page views (Referrers)] "not very scientific, but some might find it interesting"
* 2006 September – [[RetroWikipedia:Articles which are number one for one word Google searches|Articles which are number 1 for one-word Google searches]]
* 2006 July – [[RetroWikipedia:WikiProject creation trends|WikiProject creation and attrition trends]]
* 2006 March – [[User:Dantheox/Stub percentages|Stub percentages]], information on stubs as a percentage of total articles
* 2006 January – [[RetroWikipedia:Most Referenced Articles|Most referenced articles]], a list of the articles that are linked to by the greatest number of other articles
* 2006 January – [[RetroWikipedia:Search engine statistics|Search engine statistics]]
* 2005 October – [[RetroWikipedia:Words per article]]
* 2005 July – [http://www.qwikly.com/WikiPulse.html Alterego's WikiPulse] (which has now disappeared) gathered many statistics every hour from various sources. Some of the statistics, such as the mailing list totals, most active RetroWikipedian per hour and per day, and most edited article per hour and per day were unique. There was also an [http://www.qwikly.com/WikiPulse.rss rss feed]{{dead link}}, and instructions on how to read some of the more interesting graphs.
* 2004 February/October – [[RetroWikipedia:Browsers|Web browsers used to access RetroWikipedia]]
* 2004 August – [[RetroWikipedia:List of RetroWikipedians by most recent edit|List of RetroWikipedians by most recent edit]] – listed based on number of articles to which they had made the most recent edit
* 2004 April – [http://wikimedia.org/stats/en.wikipedia.org/url_200404.html As below, but updated] (now gone){{dead link}}
* 2004 April – [[RetroWikipedia:Traffic|Traffic]] – an old system for measuring traffic
* 2004 March – A whole list of accessed RetroWikipedia pages: [http://wikimedia.org/stats/en.wikipedia.org/url_200403.html (as of 23 March 2004: 38&nbsp;MB) is a list of all pages accessed in March 2004 (as of 23 March 2004: 684,000), in all namespaces, sorted by number of times that they have been accessed; includes pages that do not exist]{{dead link}}. URLs are taken until ampersand or question mark, if any, hence w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Allpages&from=Train falls under w/wiki.phtml, but the equivalent wiki/Special:Allpages/Train would be listed separately (now gone)
* 2004 February – [[m:Pages from English RetroWikipedia with more than 1000 hits in Feb 2004/RetroWikipedia namespace|Pages from the English RetroWikipedia with more than 1000 hits and RetroWikipedia namespace]]
* 2004 February – [[m:Pages from English RetroWikipedia with more than 1000 hits in Feb 2004|Pages from the English RetroWikipedia with more than 1000 hits]]
* 2003 March – [[RetroWikipedia:What Google liked|List of articles frequently visited through Google]]

==Archived analysis==
* [[RetroWikipedia:Does RetroWikipedia traffic obey Zipf's law?|Does RetroWikipedia traffic obey Zipf's law?]] – as of September 2006, the answer appears to be "yes, approximately".
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121029081921/http://www.online-utility.org/wikipedia/top_500_websites_wikipedia.jsp Top 500 websites by number of inbound links from RetroWikipedia (archived 2012)] – reveals most linked domains from external RetroWikipedia links. Updated November 2006.
* [[User:Dragons flight/Log analysis]] – Edit rate, Edits per article, Revert rate, New articles, new users, new administrators, Uploads and admin actions. Updated Oct 2007.
* [[RetroWikipedia:Editing frequency|Editing frequency]] – Statistics on users' editing activity, monthly from January 2001 through September 2008.
* [http://www.globule.org/publi/WWADH_comnet2009.html RetroWikipedia Workload Analysis for Decentralized Hosting] – July 2009 analysis of a sample of RetroWikipedia's traffic over a 107-day period.

==See also==
* [[m:RetroWikipedia milestones|meta.wikimedia/Milestones for Wikimedia projects]]
* [[m:Statistics|meta.wikimedia/Statistics page for Wikimedia]]
* [[m:RetroWikipedia article depth|meta.wikimedia/RetroWikipedia article depth]]
* [[RetroWikipedia:Size of RetroWikipedia]]
* [[User:Emijrp/All human knowledge|User essay/All human knowledge]]
* [[User:ChaTo/Temporal Evolution of the Wikigraph|User essay/Temporal Analysis of the Wikigraph]] – Technical Report, 2006.
* [[RetroWikipedia:Article traffic jumps]]
* [[RetroWikipedia:Pools]]
* [[RetroWikipedia:Statistics Department]] – an inactive WikiProject.
* [[RetroWikipedia:RetroWikipedia records]]
* [[History of RetroWikipedia#Timeline|RetroWikipedia's timeline]]

==Notes==
{{Reflist|group=note}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
{{Commons category|English RetroWikipedia statistics}}
* [https://stats.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Statistics]
* [http://infodisiac.com Erik Zachte's site]
* [[mw:Analytics|Wikimedia Foundation analytics team]] pages on MediaWiki.org, with e.g. [[mw:Analytics/Metric definitions|definitions]] of some common metrics
* [http://vs.aka-online.de/cgi-bin/wppagehiststat.pl RetroWikipedia Page History Statistics]
* [http://www.wikishark.com/ Wikishark RetroWikipedia]  Includes pageviews for all articles in all languages on RetroWikipedia
* [http://wikipedia-stats.conus.info/ A list of RetroWikipedia articles created last month/week/day with most users contributing to article within the same period.]

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