Editing Encyclopedia:Statistics (section)

== Quality ==

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

As of 2022, the median article is a [[Wikipedia: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}}

=== Biases ===
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[[Gender bias on Wikipedia|Gender bias]] includes various gender-related disparities on Wikipedia, particularly the overrepresentation of men among both volunteer contributors and article subjects.

As of January 2025, the English Wikipedia 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* An outdated list of revision deletion statistics [[Wikipedia:Revision deletion/Statistics|can be found here]].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 ===
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The English Wikipedia has over 2,000 [[Wikipedia:WikiProject|wikiprojects]], about 1,000 of which are monitored by 30–2,000 editors, all with varying levels of activity.<ref>[[Wikipedia:Database reports/WikiProject watchers]]</ref>

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

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