Editing Encyclopedia:Statistics (section)

== Statistics by action ==

The most common actions include [[Wikipedia:Editing policy|editing]] articles and [[Wikipedia:Pageview statistics|reading]] them. Among the special actions that requires [[Wikipedia: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> Wikipedia (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 Wikipedias - 2024]</ref> and the English Wikipedia 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 Wikipedia - 2024]</ref>

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

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

Considering all Wikimedia projects, around 18 edits are submitted every second, half of them are done by [[Wikipedia: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 Wikipedia]] || 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 Wikipedias|All active Wikipedias]] || 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
|-
| [[Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits|List of Wikipedians by number of edits]] || User || 10,000 editors with highest editcounts, updated daily. || {{active}}
|-
| [[Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by article count|List of Wikipedians by article count]] || User || Top 10,000 editors by article creation. || {{active}}
|-
| [[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 Wikipedia contributors to its traffic over the past month. || {{active}}
|-
| [[Wikipedia:Database reports/Pages with the most revisions]] || Page ||  || {{active}}
|-
| [[Special:MostRevisions]] || Page || Similar to the above but only for articles. || {{active}}
|-
| [[Wikipedia: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}}
|-
| [[Wikipedia: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}}
|-
| [[Wikipedia:Time Between Edits|Time between edits]] || Overall || Length of time (measured in days) between each block of 10,000,000 edits made to Wikipedia 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 Wikipedia 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 Wikipedia 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 Wikipedia 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 Wikipedia visitors and their interests. For example, in Spanish Wikipedia 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
|80th
|95th
|99th
|}<!-- See [[Wikipedia: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}}
|-
| [[Wikipedia: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 Wikipedia Ranking] || Ranking || Most viewed, can be filtered by category || {{active}}
|-
| [[Wikipedia:Top 25 Report]] || Ranking || Top 25 most popular articles weekly chart with human commentary, republished as ''[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia 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}}
|-
| [[Wikipedia:Popular pages]] || Ranking || Top-100 list of most viewed pages for 2007–2023 || {{site inactive}}
|-
| [[Wikipedia: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

[[Wikipedia: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]], [[Wikipedia: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}}
|-
| [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 Wikipedia) - not updated since October, 2017

Summaries for each language Wikipedia 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 Wikipedia - discontinued in May 2022 || {{site inactive}}
|-
| [[meta:Wikipedia.org is more popular than...|Wikipedia is more popular than...]] || Other || a list of Alexa traffic comparisons (last updated February 2018) || {{site inactive}}
|-
| [https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm#zeitgeist ZeitGeist] || Other || (stats.wikimedia.org) - retired at the end of 2018. [[Wikipedia:Zeitgeist 2008-2013|Zeitgeist 2008-2013]] || {{site inactive}}
|-
| [[Wikipedia:Most popular pages October 2001]] || Other ||  || {{site inactive}}
|-
| [[Wikipedia:Popular pages (historical)]]. 2003: [{{fullurl:{{NAMESPACE}}:Multiyear ranking of most viewed Wikipedia pages|oldid=217203890}}#2003 Oct]. 2004: [{{fullurl:{{NAMESPACE}}:Multiyear ranking of most viewed Wikipedia pages|oldid=217203890}} Mar. through Sep]. 2008: [{{fullurl:{{NAMESPACE}}:Multiyear ranking of most viewed Wikipedia pages|oldid=235703878}} May]
| Other ||  || {{site inactive}}
|-
| [[Wikipedia:Most read articles in 2008|Most read articles in 2008]] || Other ||  || {{site inactive}}
|-
| [[Wikipedia:Most read articles in 2009|Most read articles in 2009]] || Other ||  || {{site inactive}}
|-
| [[Wikipedia: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. [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/Local/stats-classic.grok.se]]. [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/stats-classic.grok.se]]. [[Wikipedia: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-Wikipedia-articles-in-2009-and-2008.html The 50 most-viewed Wikipedia articles in 2009 and 2008] (''The Daily Telegraph'')
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=== Blocks ===

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

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

=== 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 Wikipedia, 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" />

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

=== Deletions ===

In the past several years there has been a decline in mainspace deletions, probably a result of [[Wikipedia: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>


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