Editing Encyclopedia:Size of Wikipedia (section)

== Comparisons with other Wikipedias ==
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Codes: [[Main Page|en&nbsp;-&nbsp;English]] • [[:es:|es&nbsp;-&nbsp;Spanish]] • [[:de:|de&nbsp;-&nbsp;German]] • [[:ja:|ja&nbsp;-&nbsp;Japanese]] • [[:ru:|ru&nbsp;-&nbsp;Russian]] • [[:fr:|fr&nbsp;-&nbsp;French]] • [[:it:|it&nbsp;-&nbsp;Italian]] • [[:pl:|pl&nbsp;-&nbsp;Polish]] • [[:pt:|pt&nbsp;-&nbsp;Portuguese]] • [[:zh:|zh&nbsp;-&nbsp;Chinese]]

This graph is based on data from https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesArticlesTotal.htm as of 14 June 2015, with recent values for the English Wikipedia taken from the data below. The sum includes all 270+ Wikipedia languages. See the front page at https://www.wikipedia.org for a recent article count for the ten largest Wikipedias.

The English edition remains the largest Wikipedia, slightly larger than the second-largest edition, the [[Cebuano language|Cebuano]] [[List of Wikipedias|Wikipedia]]. Many other editions shared the quasi-exponential growth of the English edition, though lagging one to three years behind. As these other Wikipedias have grown, the overall percentage of articles in English has been steadily decreasing, and it fell below 25 percent in March 2007. The percentage of articles in the ten largest Wikipedias has also been decreasing, although these top ten still account for about 67 percent of all Wikipedia articles as of June 2007. Note that [[Lsjbot]], a bot run by [[Sverker Johansson]], is responsible for much of the growth of the {{Ordinal to word|{{Wikipedia rank by size|ceb}}}}- and {{Ordinal to word|{{Wikipedia rank by size|sv}}}}-largest Wikipedias, the Cebuano and the [[Swedish Wikipedia]]s, respectively, as well as the rapid growth of the [[Waray Wikipedia]]. The charts don't show the Cebuano, Swedish, or the Waray Wikipedias. Those three Wikipedias' article count growth primarily consists of stubs pertaining to living organisms and geographical entities (such as islands, rivers, dams, and mountains).

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Currently, the English Wikipedia makes up {{#expr:({{NUMBEROF|ARTICLES|en}} * 100 / {{NUMBEROF|ARTICLES|totalactive}}) round 2}} percent of all volumes in all editions of Wikipedia.

The English Wikipedia's database size is just over 10 times greater than the next-largest Wikipedia by article count, the Cebuano Wikipedia. (As of October 2023)