Editing Encyclopedia:Statistics (section)

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As of 2025, the English Wikipedia has {{NUMBEROF|articles|en.wikipedia|N}} [[Wikipedia: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 Wikipedia]</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 Wikipedia articles size in gigabytes]</ref> The [[Kiwix]] version (an offline reader) of the English Wikipedia 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>[[Wikipedia:Database reports/Long pages]]</ref> and 2 million edits<ref>[[Wikipedia:Database reports/Pages with the most revisions]]</ref> but those are related to [[Wikipedia:Maintenance|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 584,000 new articles created that year.<ref>[https://en.wikiscan.org/?menu=tables&submenu=creation Wikiscan - Creations in English Wikipedia]</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, Wikipedia editors add 11 book volumes to the encyclopedia every day.

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

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