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Note that the tables are initially shown "collapsed" (to expand one, select the "[<span style="color:#0645AD">show</span>]" link) and are sorted by the "level after" column, then "level before", then (unfortunately) alphabetically by language code. To sort by a different column, click on the "up-down" arrows next to the column heading. For help with sorting on a "secondary sort key", see [[Help:Sorting#Secondary sortkey]]. |
Note that the tables are initially shown "collapsed" (to expand one, select the "[<span style="color:#0645AD">show</span>]" link) and are sorted by the "level after" column, then "level before", then (unfortunately) alphabetically by language code. To sort by a different column, click on the "up-down" arrows next to the column heading. For help with sorting on a "secondary sort key", see [[Help:Sorting#Secondary sortkey]]. |
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Revision as of 09:13, 29 June 2012
Original information
On May 10, 2012, a bug report requesting that the "updateArticleCount.php" maintenance script be run on all Wiktionaries and Wikisources was acted upon, resulting in 60 of those wikis surpassing or falling below one or more of the article-count milestones tracked at Wikimedia News. Some of the changes were quite large and therefore questionable.
The tables below show a great many statistics for the Wiktionaries and Wikisources that showed the largest percent changes in article counts (up or down) on May 10.
Wiktionaries
The table below can be sorted by any column (initial order of the rows is by "stats articles pct Δ"). You can also "hover" over any of the column headings in the table to get an explanation of that column (these mostly match the explanations in the key below, but the percents are explained in more detail). The wiki names are linked to the wikis themselves, while the dates are linked to subpages of this one containing the "raw statistics" upon which these numbers are based.
Table key:
- wiki – Wiki name
- date before / date after – Dates dumps were made before / after the May 10th running of the "updateArticleCount.php" script (all other "before" and "after" cells are colored using the same scheme); note that dumps that happened on May 10th [e.g., Pashto] are included in the table as "before" or "after" only if their "stats articles" count [see next two items] was very close to a dump made on one side of May 10th and very different from the dump made on the other side of May 10th)
- stats pages – Total page count given in "site_stats.sql" dump, which matches the on-wiki count of "Pages" in Special:Statistics and the one given by {{NUMBEROFPAGES}} on the wiki itself
- stats articles – Article count given in "site_stats.sql" dump, which matches the on-wiki count of "Content pages" in Special:Statistics and the one given by {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} on the wiki itself
- (%) – Unless otherwise explained below, the percents are based on the numbers in the previous two columns (e.g., the first one is the percent of "stats pages" that were "stats articles")
- stats articles Δ – Change in "stats articles" count from before to after May 10th
- stats articles pct Δ – Percent change in "stats articles" count from before to after May 10th.
- dumped pages – Total number of pages seen in "page.sql" dump
- ns0 pages – Number of pages in "page.sql" marked as being in the main namespace (which, BTW, matches the number of titles seen in the "all-titles-in-ns0" dump)
- ns0 non-redirs – Number of main-namespace pages in "page.sql" marked as not being redirects (in either that dump or "redirect.sql")
- std. article count – Article (i.e., entry) count based on currently used criteria: "non-redirect with at least one [[wikilink]] of any type"1 (this and the other "article count" percents are all out of the "ns0 non-redirs" [since all the wikis listed here consider only the main namespace as "content"])
- % stats off – Percent difference between "stats articles" count and "std. article count" (as percent of "std. article count")
- conserv. article count – Article count based on more conservative criteria: "non-redirect linked to another page on the same wiki or placed in a category" (percent is out of "ns0 non-redirs")
- liberal article count – Article count based on more liberal criteria: "non-redirect containing at least one of the following: link to another page on the same wiki, image/file link, category link, interlanguage link, interwiki link, or template call" [see note below for further explanation/context] (percent is out of "ns0 non-redirs")
- altern. article count – Article count based on Yet Another set of criteria: "non-redirect linked to another page on same wiki, placed in a category, or containing an image/file or a template call" (percent is out of "ns0 non-redirs")
Note 1: Note that the "wikilink" in the current method of counting articles can apparently be anything starting with the string "[[", including a regular [[link]] to another page on the same wiki, a [[Category:]] link, an [[Image:]] (or [[File:]]) link, an interlanguage link (e.g., [[de:]]), an interwiki link (e.g., [[species:]]), or even a "hidden" link inside of an <!-- HTML comment --> or (perhaps?) one "deactivated" by <nowiki> tags. This analysis counts only "real" wikilinks (i.e., not "hidden" or "deactivated" links). To accomplish this, the dumps "pagelinks.sql", "categorylinks.sql", "imagelinks.sql", "langlinks.sql", "iwlinks.sql", and (only for the "liberal" and "alternate" counting methods) "templatelinks.sql" were also examined.
wiki | date before | date after | stats pages before | stats articles before | (%) | stats pages after | stats articles after | (%) | stats articles Δ | stats articles pct Δ | dumped pages before | ns0 pages before | ns0 non-redirs before | (%) | dumped pages after | ns0 pages after | ns0 non-redirs after | (%) | std. article count before | (%) | % stats off before | std. article count after | (%) | % stats off after | conserv. article count before | (%) | conserv. article count after | (%) | liberal article count before | (%) | liberal article count after | (%) | alternate article count before | (%) | alternate article count after | (%) |
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Nepali Wiktionary | 2012-05-02 | 2012-05-11 | 5,675 | 4,821 | 85% | 5,680 | 73 | 1% | −4,748 | −98% | 5,675 | 4,955 | 4,937 | 99.6% | 5,680 | 4,955 | 4,937 | 99.6% | 4,833 | 98% | −0.00% | 4,833 | 98% | −98% | 4,800 | 97% | 4,800 | 97% | 4,840 | 98% | 4,840 | 98% | 4,808 | 97% | 4,808 | 97% |
Pashto Wiktionary | 2012-05-10 | 2012-05-20 | 9,040 | 4,082 | 45% | 9,045 | 200 | 2% | −3,882 | −95% | 9,040 | 8,175 | 7,640 | 93% | 9,045 | 8,179 | 7,644 | 93% | 6,074 | 80% | −33% | 6,076 | 79% | −97% | 1,347 | 18% | 1,347 | 18% | 6,398 | 84% | 6,400 | 84% | 4,049 | 53% | 4,049 | 53% |
Tsonga Wiktionary | 2012-05-07 | 2012-05-16 | 796 | 363 | 46% | 798 | 19 | 2% | −344 | −95% | 796 | 347 | 345 | 99.4% | 798 | 347 | 345 | 99.4% | 88 | 26% | +313% | 88 | 26% | −78% | 19 | 6% | 19 | 6% | 88 | 26% | 88 | 26% | 19 | 6% | 19 | 6% |
Hindi Wiktionary | 2012-05-08 | 2012-05-17 | 120,707 | 105,353 | 87% | 120,711 | 6,182 | 5% | −99,171 | −94% | 119,877 | 112,386 | 112,199 | 99.8% | 119,881 | 112,389 | 112,202 | 99.8% | 105,380 | 94% | −0.00% | 105,384 | 94% | −94% | 105,302 | 94% | 105,304 | 94% | 105,380 | 94% | 105,384 | 94% | 105,306 | 94% | 105,308 | 94% |
Tigrinya Wiktionary | 2012-05-09 | 2012-05-18 | 1,039 | 784 | 75% | 1,040 | 111 | 11% | −673 | −86% | 1,039 | 564 | 561 | 99.5% | 1,040 | 564 | 561 | 99.5% | 388 | 69% | +102% | 388 | 69% | +45% | 198 | 35% | 198 | 35% | 388 | 69% | 388 | 69% | 198 | 35% | 198 | 35% |
Kyrgyz Wiktionary | 2012-05-03 | 2012-05-11 | 3,909 | 3,374 | 86% | 3,929 | 859 | 22% | −2,515 | −75% | 3,909 | 3,271 | 3,250 | 99.4% | 3,929 | 3,276 | 3,255 | 99.4% | 3,207 | 99% | +5% | 3,209 | 99% | −73% | 3,186 | 98% | 3,188 | 98% | 3,208 | 99% | 3,210 | 99% | 3,191 | 98% | 3,193 | 98% |
Bengali Wiktionary | 2012-05-03 | 2012-05-11 | 2,248 | 713 | 32% | 2,256 | 236 | 10% | −477 | −67% | 2,253 | 838 | 800 | 95% | 2,261 | 840 | 802 | 95% | 721 | 90% | −1% | 721 | 90% | −67% | 699 | 87% | 699 | 87% | 722 | 90% | 722 | 90% | 700 | 88% | 700 | 87% |
Telugu Wiktionary | 2012-05-06 | 2012-05-15 | 58,877 | 49,773 | 85% | 59,075 | 23,162 | 39% | −26,611 | −54% | 58,128 | 54,469 | 47,959 | 88% | 58,326 | 54,527 | 47,999 | 88% | 47,670 | 99.4% | +4% | 47,715 | 99.4% | −51% | 47,642 | 99.3% | 47,688 | 99.4% | 47,672 | 99.4% | 47,717 | 99.4% | 47,660 | 99.4% | 47,704 | 99.4% |
Amharic Wiktionary | 2012-05-01 | 2012-05-10 | 1,955 | 373 | 19% | 1,962 | 173 | 9% | −200 | −54% | 1,147 | 446 | 398 | 89% | 1,154 | 446 | 398 | 89% | 390 | 98% | −4% | 390 | 98% | −56% | 301 | 76% | 301 | 76% | 390 | 98% | 390 | 98% | 301 | 76% | 301 | 76% |
Cherokee Wiktionary | 2012-05-01 | 2012-05-10 | 988 | 376 | 38% | 995 | 178 | 18% | −198 | −53% | 989 | 354 | 302 | 85% | 996 | 354 | 302 | 85% | 301 | 99.7% | +25% | 301 | 99.7% | −41% | 225 | 75% | 225 | 75% | 301 | 99.7% | 301 | 99.7% | 227 | 75% | 227 | 75% |
Divehi Wiktionary | 2012-05-10 | 2012-05-20 | 672 | 138 | 21% | 673 | 79 | 12% | −59 | −43% | 672 | 185 | 172 | 93% | 673 | 185 | 172 | 93% | 102 | 59% | +35% | 102 | 59% | −23% | 81 | 47% | 81 | 47% | 102 | 59% | 102 | 59% | 87 | 51% | 87 | 51% |
Lao Wiktionary | 2012-05-06 | 2012-05-15 | 61,933 | 60,674 | 98% | 61,936 | 37,602 | 61% | −23,072 | −38% | 61,933 | 61,100 | 60,689 | 99.3% | 61,936 | 61,100 | 60,689 | 99.3% | 60,672 | 99.97% | +0.00% | 60,673 | 99.97% | −38% | 60,663 | 99.96% | 60,663 | 99.96% | 60,672 | 99.97% | 60,673 | 99.97% | 60,663 | 99.96% | 60,663 | 99.96% |
(20 more Wiktionaries to add to table)
Wikisources
As with the Wiktionaries table above, this table is initially sorted by the "stats articles pct Δ" column, and the dates are linked to the full statistics collected for each wiki. The explanation of the columns is mostly the same as for the table above, with certain additions noted below. Note that some stats included in the other table have been omitted here to limit the size of the table.
Table key: (differences from above)
- dumped articles – Article count across all content namespaces (main [ns0] and, if appropriate, "author", "page" and "index" — see other items below) using current "non-redirect in content namespace with at least one wikilink"1 criteria, based on several relevant dumps (percent is out of "dumped pages" count)
- author ns – Number of the namespace containing "Author:" pages, but only if that namespace exists and counts as content
- author ns pages – Number of pages in "page.sql" dump marked as being in the author namespace (this and similar stats that follow are coded as "0" if the namespace is missing or not counted as content, so table sorting is not broken)
- author ns non-redirs – Number of author-namespace pages in "page.sql" marked as not being redirects (in either that dump or "redirect.sql")
- author ns articles – Number of author-namespace pages in "page.sql" that qualify as articles based on current criteria (percent is out of "author ns non-redirs")
- page ns – Number of the namespace containing "Page:" pages, but only if that namespace exists and counts as content
- page ns pages – Number of pages in "page.sql" dump marked as being in the page namespace
- page ns non-redirs – Number of page-namespace pages in "page.sql" marked as not being redirects (in either that dump or "redirect.sql")
- page ns articles – Number of page-namespace pages in "page.sql" that qualify as articles based on current criteria (percent is out of "page ns non-redirs")
- index ns – Number of the namespace containing "Index:" pages (in some languages translated as "book"), but only if that namespace exists and counts as content
- index ns pages – Number of pages in "page.sql" dump marked as being in the index namespace
- index ns non-redirs – Number of index-namespace pages in "page.sql" marked as not being redirects (in either that dump or "redirect.sql")
- index ns articles – Number of index-namespace pages in "page.sql" that qualify as articles based on current criteria (percent is out of "index ns non-redirs")
wiki | date before | date after | stats pages before | stats articles before | (%) | stats pages after | stats articles after | (%) | stats articles Δ | stats articles pct Δ | dumped pages before | dumped articles before | (%) | % stats off before | dumped pages after | dumped articles after | (%) | % stats off after | ns0 pages before | ns0 non-redirs before | (%) | ns0 pages after | ns0 non-redirs after | (%) | ns0 articles before | (%) | ns0 articles after | (%) | author ns | author ns pages before | author ns non-redirs before | (%) | author ns pages after | author ns non-redirs after | (%) | author ns articles before | (%) | author ns articles after | (%) | page ns | page ns pages before | page ns non-redirs before | (%) | page ns pages after | page ns non-redirs after | (%) | page ns articles before | (%) | page ns articles after | (%) | index ns | index ns pages before | index ns non-redirs before | (%) | index ns pages after | index ns non-redirs after | (%) | index ns articles before | (%) | index ns articles after | (%) |
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Slovak Wikisource | 2012-05-03 | 2012-05-12 | 880 | 229 | 26% | 883 | 35 | 4% | −194 | −85% | 880 | 213 | 24% | +8% | 883 | 213 | 24% | −84% | 248 | 230 | 93% | 248 | 230 | 93% | 213 | 93% | 213 | 93% | none | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | none | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | none | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Azerbaijani Wikisource | 2012-05-06 | 2012-05-15 | 7,207 | 2,381 | 33% | 7,213 | 383 | 5% | −1,998 | −84% | 7,229 | 2,570 | 36% | −7% | 7,235 | 2,572 | 36% | −85% | 2,717 | 2,577 | 95% | 2,719 | 2,579 | 95% | 2,570 | 99.7% | 2,572 | 99.7% | none | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | none | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | none | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bosnian Wikisource | 2012-05-03 | 2012-05-11 | 2,486 | 1,640 | 66% | 2,493 | 429 | 17% | −1,211 | −74% | 2,486 | 1,627 | 65% | +1% | 2,493 | 1,630 | 65% | −74% | 1,700 | 1,681 | 99% | 1,703 | 1,684 | 99% | 1,627 | 97% | 1,630 | 97% | none | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | none | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | none | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Thai Wikisource | 2012-05-05 | 2012-05-14 | 16,365 | 13,601 | 83% | 16,394 | 5,051 | 31% | −8,550 | −63% | 16,366 | 5,833 | 36% | +133% | 16,395 | 5,832 | 36% | −13% | 13,510 | 12,980 | 96% | 13,511 | 12,979 | 96% | 5,833 | 45% | 5,832 | 45% | none | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | none | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | none | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ukrainian Wikisource | 2012-05-08 | 2012-05-17 | 6,792 | 4,562 | 67% | 6,809 | 1,947 | 29% | −2,615 | −57% | 6,796 | 4,641 | 68% | −1% | 6,813 | 4,643 | 68% | −58% | 5,277 | 4,754 | 90% | 5,288 | 4,757 | 90% | 4,641 | 98% | 4,643 | 98% | none | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | none | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | none | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Breton Wikisource | 2012-05-06 | 2012-05-15 | 14,216 | 3,535 | 25% | 14,230 | 1,885 | 13% | −1,650 | −47% | 14,216 | 13,055 | 92% | −73% | 14,230 | 13,065 | 92% | −86% | 2,005 | 1,734 | 86% | 2,010 | 1,738 | 86% | 1,734 | 100% | 1,738 | 100% | 104 | 84 | 78 | 93% | 84 | 78 | 93% | 78 | 100% | 78 | 100% | 102 | 11,172 | 11,172 | 100% | 11,178 | 11,178 | 100% | 11,172 | 100% | 11,178 | 100% | 100 | 72 | 71 | 99% | 72 | 71 | 99% | 71 | 100% | 71 | 100% |
Turkish Wikisource | 2012-05-01 | 2012-05-10 | 10,302 | 5,156 | 50% | 10,309 | 2,990 | 29% | −2,166 | −42% | 10,312 | 5,326 | 52% | −3% | 10,319 | 5,326 | 52% | −44% | 6,081 | 5,380 | 88% | 6,083 | 5,381 | 88% | 5,207 | 97% | 5,207 | 97% | 100 | 124 | 119 | 96% | 124 | 119 | 96% | 119 | 100% | 119 | 100% | none | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | none | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
English Wikisource | 2012-05-02 | 2012-05-11 | 1,238,088 | 367,086 | 30% | 1,241,182 | 768,020 | 62% | +400,934 | +109% | 1,239,936 | 1,018,086 | 82% | −64% | 1,243,030 | 1,020,925 | 82% | −25% | 350,789 | 258,493 | 74% | 351,486 | 259,070 | 74% | 258,382 | 99.96% | 258,966 | 99.96% | 102 | 17,480 | 12,916 | 74% | 17,519 | 12,941 | 74% | 12,912 | 99.97% | 12,937 | 99.97% | 104 | 741,844 | 741,826 | 100.00% | 744,055 | 744,037 | 100.00% | 741,817 | 100.00% | 744,028 | 100.00% | 106 | 5,058 | 4,998 | 99% | 5,077 | 5,016 | 99% | 4,975 | 99.5% | 4,994 | 99.6% |
Polish Wikisource | 2012-05-08 | 2012-05-17 | 93,452 | 35,622 | 38% | 94,063 | 83,977 | 89% | +48,355 | +136% | 93,503 | 83,539 | 89% | −57% | 94,114 | 84,106 | 89% | −0.2% | 26,690 | 24,353 | 91% | 26,776 | 24,423 | 91% | 24,353 | 100% | 24,423 | 100% | 104 | 509 | 497 | 98% | 511 | 499 | 98% | 497 | 100% | 499 | 100% | 100 | 58,238 | 58,232 | 99.99% | 58,729 | 58,723 | 99.99% | 58,229 | 99.99% | 58,720 | 99.99% | 102 | 464 | 460 | 99.1% | 468 | 464 | 99.1% | 460 | 100% | 464 | 100% |
Norwegian (Bokmål) Wikisource | 2012-05-09 | 2012-05-18 | 44,177 | 1,667 | 4% | 44,383 | 4,157 | 9% | +2,490 | +149% | 44,182 | 41,545 | 94% | −96% | 44,388 | 41,749 | 94% | −90% | 2,660 | 2,442 | 92% | 2,674 | 2,456 | 92% | 2,440 | 99.92% | 2,454 | 99.92% | 102 | 245 | 223 | 91% | 245 | 223 | 91% | 223 | 100% | 223 | 100% | 104 | 38,638 | 38,554 | 99.8% | 38,826 | 38,742 | 99.8% | 38,273 | 99.3% | 38,461 | 99.3% | 106 | 613 | 610 | 99.5% | 615 | 612 | 99.5% | 609 | 99.8% | 611 | 99.8% |
Swedish Wikisource | 2012-05-06 | 2012-05-15 | 59,321 | 17,638 | 30% | 59,569 | 46,841 | 79% | +29,203 | +166% | 59,330 | 46,761 | 79% | −62% | 59,578 | 46,956 | 79% | −0.2% | 7,367 | 6,497 | 88% | 7,408 | 6,531 | 88% | 6,497 | 100% | 6,531 | 100% | 106 | 505 | 476 | 94% | 506 | 477 | 94% | 476 | 100% | 477 | 100% | 104 | 39,461 | 39,390 | 99.8% | 39,620 | 39,549 | 99.8% | 39,390 | 100% | 39,549 | 100% | 108 | 398 | 398 | 100% | 399 | 399 | 100% | 398 | 100% | 399 | 100% |
Hebrew Wikisource | 2012-05-08 | 2012-05-17 | 242,575 | 34,142 | 14% | 242,717 | 91,267 | 38% | +57,125 | +167% | 244,818 | 93,014 | 38% | −63% | 244,960 | 93,031 | 38% | −2% | 140,030 | 94,505 | 67% | 140,109 | 94,550 | 67% | 92,693 | 98% | 92,710 | 98% | 108 | 153 | 142 | 93% | 153 | 142 | 93% | 142 | 100% | 142 | 100% | 104 | 172 | 172 | 100% | 172 | 172 | 100% | 172 | 100% | 172 | 100% | 112 | 10 | 7 | 70% | 10 | 7 | 70% | 7 | 100% | 7 | 100% |
Catalan Wikisource | 2012-05-02 | 2012-05-11 | 20,055 | 5,647 | 28% | 20,120 | 16,462 | 82% | +10,815 | +192% | 20,094 | 16,437 | 82% | −66% | 20,159 | 16,498 | 82% | −0.2% | 3,854 | 2,770 | 72% | 3,860 | 2,775 | 72% | 2,769 | 99.96% | 2,774 | 99.96% | 106 | 386 | 385 | 99.7% | 386 | 385 | 99.7% | 385 | 100% | 385 | 100% | 102 | 12,933 | 12,933 | 100% | 12,989 | 12,989 | 100% | 12,933 | 100% | 12,989 | 100% | 104 | 350 | 350 | 100% | 350 | 350 | 100% | 350 | 100% | 350 | 100% |
German Wikisource | 2012-05-08 | 2012-05-17 | 274,085 | 86,242 | 31% | 274,537 | 253,536 | 92% | +167,294 | +194% | 277,908 | 253,365 | 91% | −66% | 278,360 | 253,755 | 91% | −0.1% | 85,360 | 81,135 | 95% | 85,563 | 81,327 | 95% | 81,122 | 99.98% | 81,314 | 99.98% | none | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 102 | 171,089 | 171,085 | 100.00% | 171,283 | 171,279 | 100.00% | 171,085 | 100% | 171,279 | 100% | 104 | 1,162 | 1,158 | 99.7% | 1,166 | 1,162 | 99.7% | 1,158 | 100% | 1,162 | 100% |
French Wikisource | 2012-05-02 | 2012-05-11 | 1,198,420 | 278,718 | 23% | 1,203,351 | 1,100,473 | 91% | +821,755 | +295% | 1,201,311 | 1,096,952 | 91% | −75% | 1,206,242 | 1,101,679 | 91% | −0.1% | 107,921 | 90,966 | 84% | 110,166 | 93,147 | 85% | 89371 | 98% | 91,548 | 98% | 102 | 5,262 | 5,008 | 95% | 5,274 | 5,018 | 95% | 5,006 | 99.96% | 5,016 | 99.96% | 104 | 1,033,791 | 1,033,790 | 100.00% | 1,036,287 | 1,036,286 | 100.00% | 994,153 | 96% | 996,668 | 96% | 112 | 8,636 | 214 | 2% | 8,661 | 8,447 | 98% | 8,422 | 100% | 8,447 | 100% |
(11 more Wikisources to add to table)
Verifying the counts
How do I know that my script is giving correct article counts? Well, anyone who can program sufficiently well can redo the calculations themselves, based on the descriptions below of how I did it. For everyone else, I provide some "really raw" output showing the final, processed results of the "page hash" constructed by my script for the 2012-05-16 dump of the Tsonga Wiktionary:
Some spot checks of this output didn't reveal any problems, as far as I could tell.
Complete rewrite...
On May 10, 2012, a bug report requesting that the "updateArticleCount.php" maintenance script be run on all Wiktionaries and Wikisources was acted upon, resulting in 60 of those wikis surpassing or falling below one or more of the article-count milestones tracked at Wikimedia News. Some of the changes were quite large and therefore questionable.
A preliminary investigation revealed only one obvious pattern in the count changes: most Wiktionaries lost articles while most Wikisources gained. The gains can be explained by the fact that most Wikisources now count more namespaces as "content" than they used to; in addition to articles in the main namespace ("ns0"), many Wikisources now count qualifying pages in 1, 2, or 3 additional namespaces (more about this later). The losses were harder to explain.
Neither the gains nor losses seemed to be related to the writing system the wiki was using (e.g., Latin script vs. Brahmic scripts, etc.), whether it was an older wiki or newer one, bigger or smaller, and so forth. Most worryingly, it wasn't at all clear whether the new or old counts were "more correct". I (User:Dcljr) tried to estimate the "true" article counts based on random samples of pages at each wiki (or as close to random as could be reasonably achieved). Sometimes the resulting count was closer to the new one, sometimes closer to the old, and sometimes it was right in the middle between them. This (incomplete) preliminary information is collected at Talk:Wikimedia News#May 10 article count updates.
To collect more in-depth and "reliable" information, I wrote a Perl script to download and parse relevant database dumps needed to count the articles for a given wiki. Initially it seemed that the "updateArticleCount.php" script was consistently undercounting articles, but it turns out I was using the wrong (or, more accurately, an out-of-date) definition of what counts as an article. Once I used the right definition, I started to get the same counts as those given by "updateArticleCount.php". (For more context, see bug 37291.)
But more about all that later. First, a summary of how article counts have been determined in the past, how they are determined now, and how the article counts actually changed when the "updateArticleCount.php" script was run on May 10, 2012.
How article counting used to be done
When wiki article counting first began, it was based on whether a page contained a comma or not. This worked fine for the English Wikipedia, but once other projects in other languages started up, people realized that this method would not work for all wikis. A very quick (one week!) discussion and vote was held here at Meta in March 2003, the details of which can be found at:
- Article count reform
- Talk:Article count reform
- Article count reform vote
- mailarchive:wikipedia-l/2003-March/009736.html
Based on the results of the vote, it was decided that a page would be counted as an article if it was:
- a non-redirect in the main namespace (ns0), containing at least one [[wikilink]]
Unfortunately, the implementation of this definition left a little to be desired, and it ended up counting not only 5 different types of legitimate wikilinks (1–5 below), but two types of "false" wikilinks (6 and 7), and one type of non-wikilink (8):
- page links: e.g.,
[[Babel]]
or[[Talk:Babel]]
, etc. - category links:
[[Category:Software]]
- image/file links:
[[File:Yes.png]]
- interlanguage links:
[[de:Wikipedia:Hauptseite]]
or[[:de:Wikipedia:Hauptseite]]
- interwiki links:
[[species:]]
- hidden links:
<!-- [[don't look at me]] -->
- deactivated links:
<nowiki>[[look at me]]</nowiki>
- any text containing the string "[[":
wikilinks start with "[["...
(Note that links like [[:Category:Software]]
and [[:File:Yes.png]]
, which start with an initial colon, are regular page links of type 1.)
In fact, number 8 describes exactly what was checked for to count a page as an article (assuming it wasn't a redirect and was in the main namespace)!
Eventually, this shortcoming led some wikis to routinely place "hidden" links (of type 6) on their main-namespace pages, just to get them counted as articles.
In June 2006, the $wgContentNamespaces configuration variable was introduced (in revision 14738) to enable namespaces other than the main one (ns0) to count as "content".
At this point, the de facto definition of an article was:
- a non-redirect in a content namespace, containing the string "[["
In November 2007, bug 11868 was submitted requesting that links provided by templates be counted, too. In the course of the ensuing discussion, it was pointed out that links other than page links (types 2, 3, etc.) were being counted, and that in fact three different counting methods (all of which started with "non-redirect in a content namespace") were being employed at different places in the code:
- every time a page was saved, the "[["-string criterion was used to see whether the page would count as an article
- when the "initStats.php" maintenance script was run, it just checked to see whether the pages were non-empty
- when the "updateArticleCount.php" maintenance script was run, it checked whether the "page.sql" table actually contained page links originating from each page in question (type 1 only, but also type 1 links provided by templates)
In addition, when pages were imported into a wiki, the article count was not updated correctly (see bugs 2483, 5703, and 6600).
These inconsistencies allowed the on-wiki article counts (e.g., {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}) to diverge from the "correct" count (however that was defined!) over time.
At some point, the "meat" of the "updateArticleCount.php" script was moved elsewhere.
How article counting is done now
In May 2011, a developer finally acted to "rationalize" the way articles were counted, and in revision 88113 introduced the $wgArticleCountMethod configuration variable to specify which type of (non-empty) content-namespace non-redirect would count as articles: all such pages ("any"), only those containing a true page link ("link"), or only those containing a comma ("comma"). Article.php and SiteStats.php were modified to reflect this change.
So now, assuming $wgArticleCountMethod is set to "link" for a wiki (which it is for all but the English and Portuguese Wikibooks), a page counts as an article (presumably at all places in the MediaWiki code) if it is:
- a non-redirect in a content namespace, containing (after parsing) at least one true [[wikilink]] to another page on the same wiki
Note how different this definition is from the one actually in effect before the change was made! Unfortunately, the extreme nature of the change wasn't apparent to most people until the article counts were recalculated on May 10, 2012.
Because of the "after parsing" part of the new definition, one can no longer tell whether a page will count as an article simply by examining its page source; if the page contains templates, it must be fully parsed first in order for any links created by those templates to be accounted for. Fortunately, this is done when pages are saved, so as long as the "page.sql" database is maintained correctly, the article count should no longer get "out of sync" as it did in the past.
Changes to article counts on May 10, 2012
Apart from isolated requests here and there (for example, bug 34184), the article counts of the various Wikimedia content wikis have not been updated to reflect all of these changes in how articles have been counted over time. The May 10 running of "updateArticleCount.php" on all the Wiktionaries and Wikisources was the first concerted effort to "fix" the article counts across an entire project. On that day, the changes seen in article counts for these two projects are shown in the tables below. (Note that none of these counts are based on database dumps; see key below for details.)
Key for both tables:
- wiki name – linked to the Main Page of the wiki
- articles before / articles after – on-wiki article count at c. 00:30 UTC on 2012-05-10 and c. 00:30 UTC on 2012-05-11, respectively (collected via API request, equivalent to {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} and the count seen at Special:Statistics on the given wiki)
- change – after minus before
- pct change – relative change in article count, as a percentage of the "before" count
- level before / level after – which milestone level (tracked at Wikimedia News) the wiki would be at based on the article count
- level change – whether there was a change in milestone level
Note that the tables are initially shown "collapsed" (to expand one, select the "[show]" link) and are sorted by the "level after" column, then "level before", then (unfortunately) alphabetically by language code. To sort by a different column, click on the "up-down" arrows next to the column heading. For help with sorting on a "secondary sort key", see Help:Sorting#Secondary sortkey.
Wiktionary
wiki name | articles before | articles after | change | pct change | level before | level after | level change |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Afar Wiktionary | 2 | 1 | −1 | −50% | 0 | 0 | |
Abkhazian Wiktionary | 2 | 0 | −2 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Akan Wiktionary | 4 | 0 | −4 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Alemannic Wiktionary | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Assamese Wiktionary | 21 | 16 | −5 | −24% | 0 | 0 | |
Avar Wiktionary | 3 | 0 | −3 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Aymara Wiktionary | 61 | 27 | −34 | −56% | 0 | 0 | |
Bihari Wiktionary | 4 | 0 | −4 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Bislama Wiktionary | 3 | 0 | −3 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Bambara Wiktionary | 3 | 0 | −3 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Tibetan Wiktionary | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Chamorro Wiktionary | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Cree Wiktionary | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Dzongkha Wiktionary | 1 | 0 | −1 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Hausa Wiktionary | 64 | 54 | −10 | −16% | 0 | 0 | |
Lojban Wiktionary | 98 | 86 | −12 | −12% | 0 | 0 | |
Kashmiri Wiktionary | 56 | 48 | −8 | −14% | 0 | 0 | |
Marshallese Wiktionary | 5 | 0 | −5 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Moldovan Wiktionary | 11 | 5 | −6 | −55% | 0 | 0 | |
Pali Wiktionary | 6 | 1 | −5 | −83% | 0 | 0 | |
Romansh Wiktionary | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Kirundi Wiktionary | 3 | 0 | −3 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Sardinian Wiktionary | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Shona Wiktionary | 4 | 0 | −4 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Tongan Wiktionary | 2 | 0 | −2 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Twi Wiktionary | 1 | 0 | −1 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Xhosa Wiktionary | 5 | 0 | −5 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Yoruba Wiktionary | 3 | 0 | −3 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Divehi Wiktionary | 138 | 79 | −59 | −43% | 100 | 0 | down to 0 |
Oriya Wiktionary | 103 | 93 | −10 | −10% | 100 | 0 | down to 0 |
Samoan Wiktionary | 102 | 99 | −3 | −3% | 100 | 0 | down to 0 |
Tswana Wiktionary | 100 | 94 | −6 | −6% | 100 | 0 | down to 0 |
Tsonga Wiktionary | 363 | 19 | −344 | −95% | 200 | 0 | down to 0 |
Nepali Wiktionary | 4,821 | 73 | −4,748 | −98% | 2,000 | 0 | down to 0 |
Scottish Gaelic Wiktionary | 179 | 173 | −6 | −3% | 100 | 100 | |
Inupiak Wiktionary | 132 | 134 | +2 | +2% | 100 | 100 | |
Javanese Wiktionary | 112 | 105 | −7 | −6% | 100 | 100 | |
Lingala Wiktionary | 124 | 117 | −7 | −6% | 100 | 100 | |
Maori Wiktionary | 156 | 144 | −12 | −8% | 100 | 100 | |
Maltese Wiktionary | 160 | 150 | −10 | −6% | 100 | 100 | |
Nauruan Wiktionary | 110 | 106 | −4 | −4% | 100 | 100 | |
Punjabi Wiktionary | 184 | 105 | −79 | −43% | 100 | 100 | |
Sango Wiktionary | 130 | 107 | −23 | −18% | 100 | 100 | |
Tok Pisin Wiktionary | 146 | 145 | −1 | −1% | 100 | 100 | |
Uzbek Wiktionary | 119 | 115 | −4 | −3% | 100 | 100 | |
Yiddish Wiktionary | 184 | 128 | −56 | −30% | 100 | 100 | |
Zhuang Wiktionary | 180 | 179 | −1 | −1% | 100 | 100 | |
Amharic Wiktionary | 373 | 173 | −200 | −54% | 200 | 100 | down to 100 |
Cherokee Wiktionary | 376 | 178 | −198 | −53% | 200 | 100 | down to 100 |
Sanskrit Wiktionary | 219 | 188 | −31 | −14% | 200 | 100 | down to 100 |
Somali Wiktionary | 203 | 199 | −4 | −2% | 200 | 100 | down to 100 |
Sundanese Wiktionary | 238 | 182 | −56 | −24% | 200 | 100 | down to 100 |
Tigrinya Wiktionary | 784 | 111 | −673 | −86% | 500 | 100 | down to 100 |
Interlingue Wiktionary | 184 | 283 | +99 | +54% | 100 | 200 | up to 200 |
Faroese Wiktionary | 336 | 333 | −3 | −1% | 200 | 200 | |
Manx Wiktionary | 270 | 268 | −2 | −1% | 200 | 200 | |
Inuktitut Wiktionary | 248 | 249 | +1 | +0% | 200 | 200 | |
Cornish Wiktionary | 296 | 289 | −7 | −2% | 200 | 200 | |
Mongolian Wiktionary | 204 | 205 | +1 | +0% | 200 | 200 | |
Oromo Wiktionary | 269 | 268 | −1 | −0% | 200 | 200 | |
Quechua Wiktionary | 376 | 281 | −95 | −25% | 200 | 200 | |
Aromanian Wiktionary | 232 | 252 | +20 | +9% | 200 | 200 | |
Kinyarwanda Wiktionary | 306 | 294 | −12 | −4% | 200 | 200 | |
Swati Wiktionary | 377 | 290 | −87 | −23% | 200 | 200 | |
Bengali Wiktionary | 713 | 236 | −477 | −67% | 500 | 200 | down to 200 |
Gujarati Wiktionary | 518 | 411 | −107 | −21% | 500 | 200 | down to 200 |
Pashto Wiktionary | 4,082 | 200 | −3,882 | −95% | 2,000 | 200 | down to 200 |
Aragonese Wiktionary | 577 | 691 | +114 | +20% | 500 | 500 | |
Tajik Wiktionary | 859 | 851 | −8 | −1% | 500 | 500 | |
Uyghur Wiktionary | 843 | 834 | −9 | −1% | 500 | 500 | |
Zulu Wiktionary | 719 | 579 | −140 | −19% | 500 | 500 | |
Greenlandic Wiktionary | 1,067 | 837 | −230 | −22% | 1,000 | 500 | down to 500 |
Sindhi Wiktionary | 1,073 | 953 | −120 | −11% | 1,000 | 500 | down to 500 |
Kyrgyz Wiktionary | 3,375 | 859 | −2516 | −75% | 2,000 | 500 | down to 500 |
Sinhalese Wiktionary | 935 | 1,066 | +131 | +14% | 500 | 1,000 | up to 1,000 |
Kashubian Wiktionary | 1,495 | 1,496 | +1 | +0% | 1,000 | 1,000 | |
Guarani Wiktionary | 1,695 | 1,700 | +5 | +0% | 1,000 | 1,000 | |
Interlingua Wiktionary | 1,768 | 1,378 | −390 | −22% | 1,000 | 1,000 | |
Marathi Wiktionary | 1,843 | 1,664 | −179 | −10% | 1,000 | 1,000 | |
Low Saxon Wiktionary | 1,247 | 1,256 | +9 | +1% | 1,000 | 1,000 | |
Serbo-Croatian Wiktionary | 1,022 | 1,019 | −3 | −0% | 1,000 | 1,000 | |
Slovak Wiktionary | 1,513 | 1,460 | −53 | −4% | 1,000 | 1,000 | |
Sesotho Wiktionary | 1,400 | 1,343 | −57 | −4% | 1,000 | 1,000 | |
Macedonian Wiktionary | 2,304 | 1,971 | −333 | −14% | 2,000 | 1,000 | down to 1,000 |
Malay Wiktionary | 1,465 | 2,095 | +630 | +43% | 1,000 | 2,000 | up to 2,000 |
Anglo-Saxon Wiktionary | 2,199 | 2,166 | −33 | −2% | 2,000 | 2,000 | |
Belarusian Wiktionary | 2,282 | 2,257 | −25 | −1% | 2,000 | 2,000 | |
Bosnian Wiktionary | 3,196 | 3,216 | +20 | +1% | 2,000 | 2,000 | |
Corsican Wiktionary | 2,028 | 2,094 | +66 | +3% | 2,000 | 2,000 | |
Irish Wiktionary | 2,117 | 2,245 | +128 | +6% | 2,000 | 2,000 | |
Upper Sorbian Wiktionary | 3,896 | 4,038 | +142 | +4% | 2,000 | 2,000 | |
Kazakh Wiktionary | 3,813 | 3,737 | −76 | −2% | 2,000 | 2,000 | |
Khmer Wiktionary | 2,616 | 2,395 | −221 | −8% | 2,000 | 2,000 | |
Nahuatl Wiktionary | 2,919 | 2,927 | +8 | +0% | 2,000 | 2,000 | |
Nynorsk Wiktionary | 4,549 | 4,538 | −11 | −0% | 2,000 | 2,000 | |
Western Panjabi Wiktionary | 2,006 | 4,974 | 2,968 | 148% | 2,000 | 2,000 | |
Turkmen Wiktionary | 4,385 | 4,396 | +11 | +0% | 2,000 | 2,000 | |
Wolof Wiktionary | 2,693 | 2,309 | −384 | −14% | 2,000 | 2,000 | |
Luxembourgish Wiktionary | 4,971 | 5,121 | +150 | +3% | 2,000 | 5,000 | up to 5,000 |
Azerbaijani Wiktionary | 5,721 | 6,136 | +415 | +7% | 5,000 | 5,000 | |
Danish Wiktionary | 7,288 | 7,235 | −53 | −1% | 5,000 | 5,000 | |
Armenian Wiktionary | 7,229 | 7,230 | +1 | +0% | 5,000 | 5,000 | |
Georgian Wiktionary | 5,319 | 5,452 | +133 | +3% | 5,000 | 5,000 | |
Latin Wiktionary | 8,244 | 8,275 | +31 | +0% | 5,000 | 5,000 | |
Latvian Wiktionary | 5,244 | 5,451 | +207 | +4% | 5,000 | 5,000 | |
Slovenian Wiktionary | 7,131 | 6,981 | −150 | −2% | 5,000 | 5,000 | |
Albanian Wiktionary | 7,508 | 7,313 | −195 | −3% | 5,000 | 5,000 | |
Tatar Wiktionary | 7,045 | 6,262 | −783 | −11% | 5,000 | 5,000 | |
Walloon Wiktionary | 7,368 | 6,888 | −480 | −7% | 5,000 | 5,000 | |
Min Nan Wiktionary | 6,378 | 6,384 | +6 | +0% | 5,000 | 5,000 | |
Hindi Wiktionary | 105,353 | 6,180 | −99,173 | −94% | 100,000 | 5,000 | down to 5,000 |
Asturian Wiktionary | 11,394 | 11,401 | +7 | +0% | 10,000 | 10,000 | |
Welsh Wiktionary | 13,149 | 13,105 | −44 | −0% | 10,000 | 10,000 | |
Fijian Wiktionary | 10,887 | 10,884 | −3 | −0% | 10,000 | 10,000 | |
West Frisian Wiktionary | 13,160 | 13,322 | +162 | +1% | 10,000 | 10,000 | |
Hebrew Wiktionary | 11,423 | 10,056 | −1,367 | −12% | 10,000 | 10,000 | |
Swahili Wiktionary | 13,084 | 13,143 | +59 | +0% | 10,000 | 10,000 | |
Tagalog Wiktionary | 13,002 | 12,662 | −340 | −3% | 10,000 | 10,000 | |
Urdu Wiktionary | 13,085 | 10,180 | −2,905 | −22% | 10,000 | 10,000 | |
Afrikaans Wiktionary | 14,993 | 15,331 | +338 | +2% | 10,000 | 15,000 | up to 15,000 |
Sicilian Wiktionary | 16,671 | 16,800 | +129 | +1% | 15,000 | 15,000 | |
Simple English Wiktionary | 18,300 | 18,373 | +73 | +0% | 15,000 | 15,000 | |
Serbian Wiktionary | 15,327 | 15,949 | +622 | +4% | 15,000 | 15,000 | |
Bulgarian Wiktionary | 26,997 | 26,773 | −224 | −1% | 20,000 | 20,000 | |
Breton Wiktionary | 21,762 | 22,369 | +607 | +3% | 20,000 | 20,000 | |
Esperanto Wiktionary | 25,841 | 26,029 | +188 | +1% | 20,000 | 20,000 | |
Basque Wiktionary | 29,580 | 29,529 | −51 | −0% | 20,000 | 20,000 | |
Croatian Wiktionary | 20,881 | 20,830 | −51 | −0% | 20,000 | 20,000 | |
Icelandic Wiktionary | 21,093 | 20,987 | −106 | −1% | 20,000 | 20,000 | |
Occitan Wiktionary | 22,128 | 22,266 | +138 | +1% | 20,000 | 20,000 | |
Thai Wiktionary | 20,913 | 20,020 | −893 | −4% | 20,000 | 20,000 | |
Volapük Wiktionary | 23,551 | 22,480 | −1,071 | −5% | 20,000 | 20,000 | |
Telugu Wiktionary | 49,812 | 23,073 | −26,739 | −54% | 40,000 | 20,000 | down to 20,000 |
Catalan Wiktionary | 31,997 | 34,491 | +2,494 | +8% | 30,000 | 30,000 | |
Czech Wiktionary | 33,653 | 33,620 | −33 | −0% | 30,000 | 30,000 | |
Galician Wiktionary | 32,403 | 35,297 | +2,894 | +9% | 30,000 | 30,000 | |
Ukrainian Wiktionary | 30,780 | 32,404 | +1,624 | +5% | 30,000 | 30,000 | |
Lao Wiktionary | 60,674 | 37,602 | −23,072 | −38% | 60,000 | 30,000 | down to 30,000 |
Arabic Wiktionary | 48,446 | 47,233 | −1,213 | −3% | 40,000 | 40,000 | |
Romanian Wiktionary | 45,758 | 46,259 | +501 | +1% | 40,000 | 40,000 | |
Kurdish Wiktionary | 54,159 | 53,744 | −415 | −1% | 50,000 | 50,000 | |
Persian Wiktionary | 78,864 | 58,120 | −20,744 | −26% | 70,000 | 50,000 | down to 50,000 |
Spanish Wiktionary | 69,254 | 69,846 | +592 | +1% | 60,000 | 60,000 | |
Japanese Wiktionary | 78,121 | 77,861 | −260 | −0% | 70,000 | 70,000 | |
Estonian Wiktionary | 94,189 | 93,489 | −700 | −1% | 90,000 | 90,000 | |
Limburgish Wiktionary | 96,400 | 96,769 | +369 | +0% | 90,000 | 90,000 | |
Indonesian Wiktionary | 116,644 | 117,413 | +769 | +1% | 100,000 | 100,000 | |
Italian Wiktionary | 116,361 | 118,011 | +1,650 | +1% | 100,000 | 100,000 | |
Malayalam Wiktionary | 102,032 | 102,298 | +266 | +0% | 100,000 | 100,000 | |
Burmese Wiktionary | 114,891 | 122,788 | +7,897 | +7% | 100,000 | 100,000 | |
Norwegian (Bokmål) Wiktionary | 127,624 | 127,633 | +9 | +0% | 100,000 | 100,000 | |
Finnish Wiktionary | 192,481 | 193,883 | +1,402 | +1% | 150,000 | 150,000 | |
Hungarian Wiktionary | 180,895 | 182,750 | +1,855 | +1% | 150,000 | 150,000 | |
Ido Wiktionary | 195,289 | 195,440 | +151 | +0% | 150,000 | 150,000 | |
Dutch Wiktionary | 174,492 | 177,972 | +3,480 | +2% | 150,000 | 150,000 | |
Portuguese Wiktionary | 179,560 | 179,451 | −109 | −0% | 150,000 | 150,000 | |
Swedish Wiktionary | 176,248 | 176,417 | +169 | +0% | 150,000 | 150,000 | |
Greek Wiktionary | 191,251 | 290,691 | +99,440 | +52% | 150,000 | 200,000 | up to 200,000 |
German Wiktionary | 204,586 | 215,178 | +10,592 | +5% | 200,000 | 200,000 | |
Kannada Wiktionary | 207,226 | 205,740 | −1,486 | −1% | 200,000 | 200,000 | |
Polish Wiktionary | 282,631 | 283,572 | +941 | +0% | 200,000 | 200,000 | |
Tamil Wiktionary | 244,140 | 243,541 | −599 | −0% | 200,000 | 200,000 | |
Vietnamese Wiktionary | 229,571 | 229,055 | −516 | −0% | 200,000 | 200,000 | |
Turkish Wiktionary | 283,030 | 301,670 | +18,640 | +7% | 200,000 | 300,000 | up to 300,000 |
Korean Wiktionary | 340,537 | 341,084 | +547 | +0% | 300,000 | 300,000 | |
Russian Wiktionary | 327,449 | 437,287 | +109,838 | +34% | 300,000 | 400,000 | up to 400,000 |
Lithuanian Wiktionary | 604,846 | 608,048 | +3,202 | +1% | 600,000 | 600,000 | |
Chinese Wiktionary | 1,202,474 | 825,964 | −376,510 | −31% | 1,000,000 | 800,000 | down to 800,000 |
Malagasy Wiktionary | 1,430,731 | 1,495,456 | +64,725 | +5% | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 | |
English Wiktionary | 2,978,660 | 2,988,459 | +9,799 | +0% | 2,000,000 | 2,000,000 | |
French Wiktionary | 2,190,676 | 2,195,030 | +4,354 | +0% | 2,000,000 | 2,000,000 | |
wiki name | articles before | articles after | change | pct change | level before | level after | level change |
Note: 8 Wiktionaries rose up to new milestone levels and 24 fell to lower milestone levels.
Wikisource
wiki name | articles before | articles after | change | pct change | level before | level after | level change |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Anglo-Saxon Wikisource | 4 | 1 | −3 | −75% | 0 | 0 | |
Faroese Wikisource | 60 | 11 | −49 | −82% | 0 | 0 | |
Haitian Wikisource | 25 | 12 | −13 | −52% | 0 | 0 | |
Min Nan Wikisource | 56 | 59 | +3 | +5% | 0 | 0 | |
Slovak Wikisource | 229 | 35 | −194 | −85% | 200 | 0 | down to 0 |
Welsh Wikisource | 271 | 174 | −97 | −36% | 200 | 100 | down to 100 |
Galician Wikisource | 401 | 381 | −20 | −5% | 200 | 200 | |
Kannada Wikisource | 341 | 308 | −33 | −10% | 200 | 200 | |
Lithuanian Wikisource | 407 | 327 | −80 | −20% | 200 | 200 | |
Marathi Wikisource | 356 | 234 | −122 | −34% | 200 | 200 | |
Estonian Wikisource | 717 | 435 | −282 | −39% | 500 | 200 | down to 200 |
Bosnian Wikisource | 1,643 | 429 | −1,214 | −74% | 1,000 | 200 | down to 200 |
Azeri Wikisource | 2,381 | 382 | −1,999 | −84% | 2,000 | 200 | down to 200 |
Gujarati Wikisource | 233 | 507 | +274 | +118% | 200 | 500 | up to 500 |
Bulgarian Wikisource | 598 | 580 | −18 | −3% | 500 | 500 | |
Sakha Wikisource | 558 | 558 | 0 | 0% | 500 | 500 | |
Belarusian Wikisource | 478 | 1,507 | +1,029 | +215% | 200 | 1,000 | up to 1,000 |
Danish Wikisource | 1,451 | 1,677 | +226 | +16% | 1,000 | 1,000 | |
Esperanto Wikisource | 1,603 | 1,605 | +2 | +0% | 1,000 | 1,000 | |
Indonesian Wikisource | 1,554 | 1,804 | +250 | +16% | 1,000 | 1,000 | |
Icelandic Wikisource | 1,765 | 1,756 | −9 | −1% | 1,000 | 1,000 | |
Tamil Wikisource | 1,892 | 1,722 | −170 | −9% | 1,000 | 1,000 | |
Breton Wikisource | 3,535 | 1,881 | −1,654 | −47% | 2,000 | 1,000 | down to 1,000 |
Limburgish Wikisource | 2,336 | 1,525 | −811 | −35% | 2,000 | 1,000 | down to 1,000 |
Macedonian Wikisource | 2,734 | 1,846 | −888 | −32% | 2,000 | 1,000 | down to 1,000 |
Ukrainian Wikisource | 4,563 | 1,947 | −2,616 | −57% | 2,000 | 1,000 | down to 1,000 |
Norwegian (Bokmål) Wikisource | 1,667 | 4,145 | +2,478 | +149% | 1,000 | 2,000 | up to 2,000 |
Venetian Wikisource | 1,974 | 3,301 | +1,327 | +67% | 1,000 | 2,000 | up to 2,000 |
Armenian Wikisource | 2,426 | 4,755 | +2,329 | +96% | 2,000 | 2,000 | |
Japanese Wikisource | 4,098 | 2,844 | −1,254 | −31% | 2,000 | 2,000 | |
Latin Wikisource | 3,021 | 3,511 | +490 | +16% | 2,000 | 2,000 | |
Malayalam Wikisource | 3,611 | 3,143 | −468 | −13% | 2,000 | 2,000 | |
Serbian Wikisource | 4,454 | 3,390 | −1,064 | −24% | 2,000 | 2,000 | |
Yiddish Wikisource | 2,304 | 2,578 | +274 | +12% | 2,000 | 2,000 | |
Dutch Wikisource | 5,524 | 4,226 | −1,298 | −23% | 5,000 | 2,000 | down to 2,000 |
Turkish Wikisource | 5,156 | 2,990 | −2,166 | −42% | 5,000 | 2,000 | down to 2,000 |
Bengali Wikisource | 5,398 | 5,494 | +96 | +2% | 5,000 | 5,000 | |
Greek Wikisource | 5,978 | 5,651 | −327 | −5% | 5,000 | 5,000 | |
Finnish Wikisource | 7,138 | 7,964 | +826 | +12% | 5,000 | 5,000 | |
Croatian Wikisource | 7,914 | 5,003 | −2,911 | −37% | 5,000 | 5,000 | |
Korean Wikisource | 8,582 | 8,331 | −251 | −3% | 5,000 | 5,000 | |
Romanian Wikisource | 8,496 | 8,323 | −173 | −2% | 5,000 | 5,000 | |
Sanskrit Wikisource | 5,784 | 5,794 | +10 | +0% | 5,000 | 5,000 | |
Slovenian Wikisource | 6,614 | 9,042 | +2,428 | +37% | 5,000 | 5,000 | |
Telugu Wikisource | 7,278 | 6,734 | −544 | −7% | 5,000 | 5,000 | |
Vietnamese Wikisource | 7,087 | 7,205 | +118 | +2% | 5,000 | 5,000 | |
Thai Wikisource | 13,599 | 5,051 | −8,548 | −63% | 10,000 | 5,000 | down to 5,000 |
Multiligual (Beta) Wikisource | 10,742 | 10,743 | +1 | +0% | 10,000 | 10,000 | |
Catalan Wikisource | 5,707 | 16,461 | +10,754 | +188% | 5,000 | 15,000 | up to 15,000 |
Czech Wikisource | 15,051 | 16,106 | +1,055 | +7% | 15,000 | 15,000 | |
Arabic Wikisource | 20,844 | 19,658 | −1,186 | −6% | 20,000 | 15,000 | down to 15,000 |
Hungarian Wikisource | 19,293 | 20,128 | +835 | +4% | 15,000 | 20,000 | up to 20,000 |
Persian Wikisource | 22,057 | 21,906 | −151 | −1% | 20,000 | 20,000 | |
Swedish Wikisource | 17,732 | 46,780 | +29,048 | +164% | 15,000 | 40,000 | up to 40,000 |
Spanish Wikisource | 52,159 | 77,230 | +25,071 | +48% | 50,000 | 70,000 | up to 70,000 |
Polish Wikisource | 35,682 | 83,510 | +47,828 | +134% | 30,000 | 80,000 | up to 80,000 |
Hebrew Wikisource | 34,144 | 91,256 | +57,112 | +167% | 30,000 | 90,000 | up to 90,000 |
Portuguese Wikisource | 87,931 | 95,409 | +7,478 | +9% | 80,000 | 90,000 | up to 90,000 |
Italian Wikisource | 67,136 | 115,444 | +48,308 | +72% | 60,000 | 100,000 | up to 100,000 |
Chinese Wikisource | 106,648 | 107,768 | +1,120 | +1% | 100,000 | 100,000 | |
German Wikisource | 86,340 | 253,283 | +166,943 | +193% | 80,000 | 200,000 | up to 200,000 |
Russian Wikisource | 217,137 | 222,029 | +4,892 | +2% | 200,000 | 200,000 | |
English Wikisource | 369,323 | 767,673 | +398,350 | +108% | 300,000 | 700,000 | up to 700,000 |
French Wikisource | 281,166 | 1,100,463 | +819,297 | +291% | 200,000 | 1,000,000 | up to 1,000,000 |
wiki name | articles before | articles after | change | pct change | level before | level after | level change |
Note: 15 Wikisources rose up to new milestone levels and 13 fell to lower milestone levels.
Changes to article counts in other projects
Eventually the article counts will need to be updated on the other Wikimedia wikis. The tables below show the changes that would have occurred if the "updateArticleCount.php" script were run on each of the other "content wikis" on the day that wiki's database was most recently dumped (as of the time the tables were filled in). The columns are as in the previous section, except for the "date dumped" column, which should be self-explanatory. Unlike the tables above, initial sorting is by "articles before" in reverse numerical order.
Wikipedias
wiki name | date dumped | articles before | articles after | change | pct change | level before | level after | level change |
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Note: The English Wikipedia is too large to include in this analysis.
Wikibooks
wiki name | date dumped | articles before | articles after | change | pct change | level before | level after | level change |
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German Wikibooks | 2012-06-22 | 19,101 | 21,500 | +2,399 | +13% | 15,000 | 20,000 | up to 20,000 |
French Wikibooks | 2012-06-28 | 11,801 | 9,298 | −2,503 | −21% | 10,000 | 5,000 | down to 5,000 |
Hungarian Wikibooks | 2012-06-28 | 10,307 | 8,976 | −1,331 | −13% | 10,000 | 5,000 | down to 5,000 |
Japanese Wikibooks | 2012-06-20 | 8,863 | 8,613 | −250 | −3% | 5,000 | 5,000 | |
Dutch Wikibooks | 2012-06-28 | 6,084 | 6,987 | +903 | +15% | 5,000 | 5,000 | |
Polish Wikibooks | 2012-06-26 | 5,937 | 4,672 | −1,265 | −21% | 5,000 | 2,000 | down to 2,000 |
Italian Wikibooks | 2012-06-26 | 5,587 | 4,465 | −1,122 | −20% | 5,000 | 2,000 | down to 2,000 |
Spanish Wikibooks | 2012-06-28 | 5,320 | 4,926 | −394 | −7% | 5,000 | 2,000 | down to 2,000 |
Vietnamese Wikibooks | 2012-06-27 | 5,101 | 608 | −4,493 | −88% | 5,000 | 500 | down to 500 |
Hebrew Wikibooks | 2012-06-27 | 4,452 | 3,504 | −948 | −21% | 2,000 | 2,000 | |
Albanian Wikibooks | 2012-06-26 | 3,245 | 3,212 | −33 | −1% | 2,000 | 2,000 | |
Finnish Wikibooks | 2012-06-27 | 2,586 | 1,643 | −943 | −36% | 2,000 | 1,000 | down to 1,000 |
Catalan Wikibooks | 2012-06-28 | 2,211 | 1,445 | −766 | −35% | 2,000 | 1,000 | down to 1,000 |
Indonesian Wikibooks | 2012-06-27 | 1,817 | 1,815 | −2 | −0.1% | 1,000 | 1,000 | |
Russian Wikibooks | 2012-06-21 | 1,706 | 1,098 | −608 | −36% | 1,000 | 1,000 | |
Czech Wikibooks | 2012-06-20 | 1,399 | 805 | −594 | −42% | 1,000 | 500 | down to 500 |
Chinese Wikibooks | 2012-06-28 | 1,248 | 1,117 | −131 | −10% | 1,000 | 1,000 | |
Croatian Wikibooks | 2012-06-27 | 1,149 | 966 | −183 | −16% | 1,000 | 500 | down to 500 |
Swedish Wikibooks | 2012-06-21 | 1,136 | 899 | −237 | −21% | 1,000 | 500 | down to 500 |
Turkish Wikibooks | 2012-06-28 | 1,076 | 768 | −308 | −29% | 1,000 | 500 | down to 500 |
Danish Wikibooks | 2012-06-28 | 1,023 | 737 | −286 | −28% | 1,000 | 500 | down to 500 |
Thai Wikibooks | 2012-06-20 | 961 | 738 | −223 | −23% | 500 | 500 | |
Galician Wikibooks | 2012-06-27 | 912 | 1,114 | +202 | +22% | 500 | 1,000 | up to 1,000 |
Norwegian (Bokmål) Wikibooks | 2012-06-28 | 886 | 727 | −159 | −18% | 500 | 500 | |
Korean Wikibooks | 2012-06-28 | 862 | 703 | −159 | −18% | 500 | 500 | |
Tamil Wikibooks | 2012-06-25 | 859 | 668 | −191 | −22% | 500 | 500 | |
Persian Wikibooks | 2012-06-27 | 841 | 649 | −192 | −23% | 500 | 500 | |
Serbian Wikibooks | 2012-06-27 | 795 | 783 | −12 | −2% | 500 | 500 | |
Arabic Wikibooks | 2012-06-20 | 730 | 428 | −302 | −41% | 500 | 200 | down to 200 |
Tagalog Wikibooks | 2012-06-20 | 730 | 118 | −612 | −84% | 500 | 100 | down to 100 |
Macedonian Wikibooks | 2012-06-21 | 713 | 279 | −434 | −61% | 500 | 200 | down to 200 |
Icelandic Wikibooks | 2012-06-26 | 652 | 481 | −171 | −26% | 500 | 200 | down to 200 |
Tatar Wikibooks | 2012-06-28 | 486 | 241 | −245 | −50% | 200 | 200 | |
Lithuanian Wikibooks | 2012-06-25 | 479 | 256 | −223 | −47% | 200 | 200 | |
Georgian Wikibooks | 2012-06-21 | 463 | 206 | −257 | −56% | 200 | 200 | |
Azerbaijani Wikibooks | 2012-06-25 | 450 | 212 | −238 | −53% | 200 | 200 | |
Esperanto Wikibooks | 2012-06-28 | 442 | 404 | −38 | −9% | 200 | 200 | |
Simple English Wikibooks | 2012-06-20 | 429 | 330 | −99 | −23% | 200 | 200 | |
Romanian Wikibooks | 2012-06-27 | 407 | 199 | −208 | −51% | 200 | 100 | down to 100 |
Bulgarian Wikibooks | 2012-06-22 | 376 | 276 | −100 | −27% | 200 | 200 | |
Greek Wikibooks | 2012-06-28 | 315 | 142 | −173 | −55% | 200 | 100 | down to 100 |
Ukrainian Wikibooks | 2012-06-28 | 306 | 246 | −60 | −20% | 200 | 200 | |
Armenian Wikibooks | 2012-06-27 | 300 | 272 | −28 | −9% | 200 | 200 | |
Slovenian Wikibooks | 2012-06-22 | 285 | 216 | −69 | −24% | 200 | 200 | |
Slovak Wikibooks | 2012-06-21 | 283 | 318 | +35 | +12% | 200 | 200 | |
Sinhalese Wikibooks | 2012-06-21 | 229 | 257 | +28 | +12% | 200 | 200 | |
Limburgish Wikibooks | 2012-06-26 | 207 | 66 | −141 | −68% | 200 | 0 | down to 0 |
Latin Wikibooks | 2012-06-21 | 197 | 66 | −131 | −66% | 100 | 0 | down to 0 |
Anglo-Saxon Wikibooks | 2012-06-26 | 173 | 153 | −20 | −12% | 100 | 100 | |
Interlingua Wikibooks | 2012-06-27 | 169 | 75 | −94 | −56% | 100 | 0 | down to 0 |
Chuvash Wikibooks | 2012-06-26 | 165 | 67 | −98 | −59% | 100 | 0 | down to 0 |
Estonian Wikibooks | 2012-06-28 | 153 | 93 | −60 | −39% | 100 | 0 | down to 0 |
Urdu Wikibooks | 2012-06-28 | 143 | 134 | −9 | −6% | 100 | 100 | |
Marathi Wikibooks | 2012-06-28 | 142 | 22 | −120 | −85% | 100 | 0 | down to 0 |
Bengali Wikibooks | 2012-06-21 | 138 | 38 | −100 | −72% | 100 | 0 | down to 0 |
Malay Wikibooks | 2012-06-28 | 136 | 138 | +2 | +1% | 100 | 100 | |
Hindi Wikibooks | 2012-06-27 | 122 | 50 | −72 | −59% | 100 | 0 | down to 0 |
Occitan Wikibooks | 2012-06-28 | 118 | 94 | −24 | −20% | 100 | 0 | down to 0 |
Malayalam Wikibooks | 2012-06-20 | 112 | 66 | −46 | −41% | 100 | 0 | down to 0 |
Kazakh Wikibooks | 2012-06-23 | 113 | 111 | −2 | −2% | 100 | 100 | |
Basque Wikibooks | 2012-06-27 | 86 | 43 | −43 | −50% | 0 | 0 | |
Latvian Wikibooks | 2012-06-25 | 69 | 82 | +13 | +19% | 0 | 0 | |
West Frisian Wikibooks | 2012-06-25 | 67 | 41 | −26 | −39% | 0 | 0 | |
Interlingue Wikibooks | 2012-06-21 | 66 | 41 | −25 | −38% | 0 | 0 | |
Nepali Wikibooks | 2012-06-20 | 61 | 49 | −12 | −20% | 0 | 0 | |
Khmer Wikibooks | 2012-06-28 | 59 | 55 | −4 | −7% | 0 | 0 | |
Telugu Wikibooks | 2012-06-20 | 54 | 16 | −38 | −70% | 0 | 0 | |
Afrikaans Wikibooks | 2012-06-20 | 51 | 26 | −25 | −49% | 0 | 0 | |
Tajik Wikibooks | 2012-06-23 | 48 | 45 | −3 | −6% | 0 | 0 | |
Sanskrit Wikibooks | 2012-06-23 | 45 | 36 | −9 | −20% | 0 | 0 | |
Punjabi Wikibooks | 2012-06-27 | 40 | 23 | −17 | −42% | 0 | 0 | |
Bosnian Wikibooks | 2012-06-21 | 36 | 28 | −8 | −22% | 0 | 0 | |
Kyrgyz Wikibooks | 2012-06-21 | 36 | 3 | −33 | −92% | 0 | 0 | |
Malagasy Wikibooks | 2012-06-28 | 32 | 14 | −18 | −56% | 0 | 0 | |
Welsh Wikibooks | 2012-06-28 | 32 | 26 | −6 | −19% | 0 | 0 | |
Belarusian Wikibooks | 2012-06-20 | 31 | 16 | −15 | −48% | 0 | 0 | |
Min Nan Wikibooks | 2012-06-21 | 29 | 16 | −13 | −45% | 0 | 0 | |
Asturian Wikibooks | 2012-06-20 | 27 | 5 | −22 | −81% | 0 | 0 | |
Kurdish Wikibooks | 2012-06-22 | 18 | 13 | −5 | −28% | 0 | 0 | |
Corsican Wikibooks | 2012-06-22 | 12 | 4 | −8 | −67% | 0 | 0 | |
Swahili Wikibooks | 2012-06-26 | 12 | 9 | −3 | −25% | 0 | 0 | |
Turkmen Wikibooks | 2012-06-20 | 11 | 0 | −11 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Uzbek Wikibooks | 2012-06-27 | 10 | 4 | −6 | −60% | 0 | 0 | |
Alemannic Wikibooks | 2012-06-23 | 8 | 0 | −8 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Sundanese Wikibooks | 2012-06-26 | 8 | 2 | −6 | −75% | 0 | 0 | |
Quechua Wikibooks | 2012-06-20 | 8 | 4 | −4 | −50% | 0 | 0 | |
Bambara Wikibooks | 2012-06-23 | 7 | 0 | −7 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Volapük Wikibooks | 2012-06-26 | 7 | 2 | −5 | −71% | 0 | 0 | |
Gujarati Wikibooks | 2012-06-28 | 6 | 0 | −6 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Nauruan Wikibooks | 2012-06-23 | 6 | 1 | −5 | −83% | 0 | 0 | |
Akan Wikibooks | 2012-06-25 | 6 | 0 | −6 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Tibetan Wikibooks | 2012-06-20 | 5 | 0 | −5 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Xhosa Wikibooks | 2012-06-25 | 5 | 1 | −4 | −80% | 0 | 0 | |
Kashmiri Wikibooks | 2012-06-28 | 5 | 0 | −5 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Luxembourgish Wikibooks | 2012-06-21 | 5 | 0 | −5 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Mongolian Wikibooks | 2012-06-28 | 5 | 0 | −5 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Northern Sami Wikibooks | 2012-06-20 | 5 | 0 | −5 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Kannada Wikibooks | 2012-06-27 | 5 | 2 | −3 | −60% | 0 | 0 | |
Aymara Wikibooks | 2012-06-21 | 4 | 0 | −4 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Low German/Low Saxon Wikibooks | 2012-06-20 | 4 | 1 | −3 | −75% | 0 | 0 | |
Gothic Wikibooks | 2012-06-21 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0 | |
Chamorro Wikibooks | 2012-06-20 | 4 | 0 | −4 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Uyghur Wikibooks | 2012-06-28 | 4 | 0 | −4 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Yoruba Wikibooks | 2012-06-28 | 4 | 0 | −4 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Pashto Wikibooks | 2012-06-27 | 4 | 1 | −3 | −75% | 0 | 0 | |
Afar Wikibooks | 2012-06-20 | 3 | 0 | −3 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Assamese Wikibooks | 2012-06-27 | 3 | 0 | −3 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Guarani Wikibooks | 2012-06-26 | 3 | 0 | −3 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Walloon Wikibooks | 2012-06-26 | 3 | 2 | −1 | −33% | 0 | 0 | |
Zulu Wikibooks | 2012-06-26 | 3 | 1 | −2 | −67% | 0 | 0 | |
Lingala Wikibooks | 2012-06-23 | 3 | 0 | −3 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Nahuatl Wikibooks | 2012-06-23 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0 | |
Romansh Wikibooks | 2012-06-27 | 3 | 0 | −3 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Zhuang Wikibooks | 2012-06-27 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0 | |
Irish Wikibooks | 2012-06-26 | 1 | 0 | −1 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Bashkir Wikibooks | 2012-06-22 | 1 | 0 | −1 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Bislama Wikibooks | 2012-06-21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Maori Wikibooks | 2012-06-20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Burmese Wikibooks | 2012-06-28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Things to note:
- 2 Wikibooks languages would rise to new milestone levels and 29 would fall.
- The English Wikibooks and Portuguese Wikibooks use the "comma" article counting method, and so are not included in this analysis.
- The Alemannic Wikibooks exists as a separate namespace within that language's Wikipedia, so it is not included in this analysis.
Wikiquote
wiki name | date dumped | articles before | articles after | change | pct change | level before | level after | level change |
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English Wikiquote | 2012-06-18 | 21,173 | 20,013 | −1,160 | −5% | 20,000 | 20,000 | |
Polish Wikiquote | 2012-06-16 | 18,188 | 14,149 | −4,039 | −22% | 15,000 | 10,000 | down to 10,000 |
Italian Wikiquote | 2012-06-23 | 14,718 | 14,639 | −79 | −0.5% | 10,000 | 10,000 | |
Russian Wikiquote | 2012-06-23 | 8,031 | 4,656 | −3,375 | −42% | 5,000 | 2,000 | down to 2,000 |
French Wikiquote | 2012-06-26 | 7,787 | 6,114 | −1,673 | −21% | 5,000 | 5,000 | |
German Wikiquote | 2012-06-22 | 6,944 | 7,497 | +553 | +8% | 5,000 | 5,000 | |
Portuguese Wikiquote | 2012-06-17 | 6,574 | 6,369 | −205 | −3% | 5,000 | 5,000 | |
Spanish Wikiquote | 2012-06-17 | 5,512 | 4,966 | −546 | −10% | 5,000 | 2,000 | down to 2,000 |
Slovak Wikiquote | 2012-06-22 | 4,850 | 4,851 | +1 | +0.02% | 2,000 | 2,000 | |
Bulgarian Wikiquote | 2012-06-21 | 4,263 | 1,654 | −2,609 | −61% | 2,000 | 1,000 | down to 1,000 |
Czech Wikiquote | 2012-06-20 | 4,268 | 3,969 | −299 | −7% | 2,000 | 2,000 | |
Bosnian Wikiquote | 2012-06-21 | 3,568 | 3,482 | −86 | −2% | 2,000 | 2,000 | |
Turkish Wikiquote | 2012-06-16 | 3,282 | 2,723 | −559 | −17% | 2,000 | 2,000 | |
Slovenian Wikiquote | 2012-06-22 | 2,473 | 1,807 | −666 | −27% | 2,000 | 1,000 | down to 1,000 |
Hebrew Wikiquote | 2012-06-17 | 2,286 | 1,941 | −345 | −15% | 2,000 | 1,000 | down to 1,000 |
Esperanto Wikiquote | 2012-06-26 | 2,036 | 1,952 | −84 | −4% | 2,000 | 1,000 | down to 1,000 |
Lithuanian Wikiquote | 2012-06-23 | 2,028 | 2,010 | −18 | −0.9% | 2,000 | 2,000 | |
Greek Wikiquote | 2012-06-20 | 1,760 | 1,506 | −254 | −14% | 1,000 | 1,000 | |
Ukrainian Wikiquote | 2012-06-17 | 1,638 | 539 | −1,099 | −67% | 1,000 | 500 | down to 500 |
Indonesian Wikiquote | 2012-06-25 | 1,596 | 1,564 | −32 | −2% | 1,000 | 1,000 | |
Chinese Wikiquote | 2012-06-17 | 1,560 | 1,092 | −468 | −30% | 1,000 | 1,000 | |
Persian Wikiquote | 2012-06-17 | 1,412 | 1,279 | −133 | −9% | 1,000 | 1,000 | |
Hungarian Wikiquote | 2012-06-16 | 1,298 | 808 | −490 | −38% | 1,000 | 500 | down to 500 |
Finnish Wikiquote | 2012-06-17 | 1,161 | 336 | −825 | −71% | 1,000 | 200 | down to 200 |
Dutch Wikiquote | 2012-06-16 | 1,148 | 1,003 | −145 | −13% | 1,000 | 1,000 | |
Swedish Wikiquote | 2012-06-25 | 1,102 | 436 | −666 | −60% | 1,000 | 200 | down to 200 |
Limburgish Wikiquote | 2012-06-20 | 958 | 911 | −47 | −5% | 500 | 500 | |
Norwegian (Bokmål) Wikiquote | 2012-06-17 | 870 | 322 | −548 | −63% | 500 | 200 | down to 200 |
Nynorsk Wikiquote | 2012-06-16 | 831 | 872 | +41 | +5% | 500 | 500 | |
Japanese Wikiquote | 2012-06-20 | 779 | 627 | −152 | −20% | 500 | 500 | |
Azerbaijani Wikiquote | 2012-06-22 | 756 | 146 | −610 | −81% | 500 | 100 | down to 100 |
Armenian Wikiquote | 2012-06-16 | 714 | 649 | −65 | −9% | 500 | 500 | |
Catalan Wikiquote | 2012-06-21 | 681 | 607 | −74 | −11% | 500 | 500 | |
Simple English Wikiquote | 2012-06-17 | 591 | 588 | −3 | −0.5% | 500 | 500 | |
Estonian Wikiquote | 2012-06-17 | 560 | 278 | −282 | −50% | 500 | 200 | down to 200 |
Arabic Wikiquote | 2012-06-21 | 550 | 150 | −400 | −73% | 500 | 100 | down to 100 |
Croatian Wikiquote | 2012-06-17 | 509 | 399 | −110 | −22% | 500 | 200 | down to 200 |
Welsh Wikiquote | 2012-06-20 | 442 | 386 | −56 | −13% | 200 | 200 | |
Georgian Wikiquote | 2012-06-21 | 433 | 168 | −265 | −61% | 200 | 100 | down to 100 |
Korean Wikiquote | 2012-06-17 | 430 | 159 | −271 | −63% | 200 | 100 | down to 100 |
Malayalam Wikiquote | 2012-06-20 | 391 | 170 | −221 | −57% | 200 | 100 | down to 100 |
Galician Wikiquote | 2012-06-17 | 392 | 157 | −235 | −60% | 200 | 100 | down to 100 |
Serbian Wikiquote | 2012-06-16 | 379 | 193 | −186 | −49% | 200 | 100 | down to 100 |
Romanian Wikiquote | 2012-06-22 | 352 | 132 | −220 | −62% | 200 | 100 | down to 100 |
Kurdish Wikiquote | 2012-06-21 | 330 | 242 | −88 | −27% | 200 | 200 | |
Telugu Wikiquote | 2012-06-22 | 242 | 160 | −82 | −34% | 200 | 100 | down to 100 |
Thai Wikiquote | 2012-06-21 | 243 | 184 | −59 | −24% | 200 | 100 | down to 100 |
Icelandic Wikiquote | 2012-06-21 | 212 | 130 | −82 | −39% | 200 | 100 | down to 100 |
Basque Wikiquote | 2012-06-17 | 189 | 140 | −49 | −26% | 100 | 100 | |
Danish Wikiquote | 2012-06-17 | 186 | 69 | −117 | −63% | 100 | 0 | down to 0 |
Afrikaans Wikiquote | 2012-06-21 | 164 | 10 | −154 | −94% | 100 | 0 | down to 0 |
Albanian Wikiquote | 2012-06-16 | 139 | 66 | −73 | −53% | 100 | 0 | down to 0 |
Vietnamese Wikiquote | 2012-06-16 | 138 | 70 | −68 | −49% | 100 | 0 | down to 0 |
Tamil Wikiquote | 2012-06-26 | 109 | 65 | −44 | −40% | 100 | 0 | down to 0 |
Hindi Wikiquote | 2012-06-17 | 99 | 24 | −75 | −76% | 0 | 0 | |
Latin Wikiquote | 2012-06-17 | 91 | 55 | −36 | −40% | 0 | 0 | |
Breton Wikiquote | 2012-06-26 | 73 | 31 | −42 | −58% | 0 | 0 | |
Belarusian Wikiquote | 2012-06-20 | 59 | 19 | −40 | −68% | 0 | 0 | |
Marathi Wikiquote | 2012-06-17 | 53 | 36 | −17 | −32% | 0 | 0 | |
Asturian Wikiquote | 2012-06-16 | 37 | 15 | −22 | −59% | 0 | 0 | |
Uzbek Wikiquote | 2012-06-16 | 32 | 17 | −15 | −47% | 0 | 0 | |
Anglo-Saxon Wikiquote | 2012-06-26 | 27 | 13 | −14 | −52% | 0 | 0 | |
Urdu Wikiquote | 2012-06-18 | 27 | 10 | −17 | −63% | 0 | 0 | |
Min Nan Wikiquote | 2012-06-17 | 25 | 6 | −19 | −76% | 0 | 0 | |
Gujarati Wikiquote | 2012-06-17 | 23 | 9 | −14 | −61% | 0 | 0 | |
Sundanese Wikiquote | 2012-06-26 | 21 | 2 | −19 | −90% | 0 | 0 | |
Luxembourgish Wikiquote | 2012-06-20 | 21 | 10 | −11 | −52% | 0 | 0 | |
Kannada Wikiquote | 2012-06-17 | 18 | 4 | −14 | −78% | 0 | 0 | |
Wolof Wikiquote | 2012-06-21 | 15 | 1 | −14 | −93% | 0 | 0 | |
Kyrgyz Wikiquote | 2012-06-20 | 12 | 1 | −11 | −92% | 0 | 0 | |
Kazakh Wikiquote | 2012-06-16 | 10 | 1 | −9 | −90% | 0 | 0 | |
Tatar Wikiquote | 2012-06-16 | 7 | 0 | −7 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Corsican Wikiquote | 2012-06-20 | 6 | 2 | −4 | −67% | 0 | 0 | |
Quechua Wikiquote | 2012-06-16 | 6 | 0 | −6 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Amharic Wikiquote | 2012-06-20 | 6 | 2 | −4 | −67% | 0 | 0 | |
Bambara Wikiquote | 2012-06-26 | 5 | 0 | −5 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Uyghur Wikiquote | 2012-06-17 | 5 | 0 | −5 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Cornish Wikiquote | 2012-06-21 | 4 | 0 | −4 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Irish Wikiquote | 2012-06-26 | 3 | 1 | −2 | −67% | 0 | 0 | |
Nauruan Wikiquote | 2012-06-17 | 3 | 0 | −3 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Turkmen Wikiquote | 2012-06-17 | 3 | 0 | −3 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Volapük Wikiquote | 2012-06-18 | 3 | 0 | −3 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Zhuang Wikiquote | 2012-06-17 | 1 | 0 | −1 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Low German Wikiquote | 2012-06-20 | 1 | 0 | −1 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Kashmiri Wikiquote | 2012-06-17 | 1 | 0 | −1 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Kanuri Wikiquote | 2012-06-17 | 1 | 0 | −1 | −100% | 0 | 0 | |
Cree Wikiquote | 2012-06-21 | 1 | 0 | −1 | −100% | 0 | 0 |
Things to note:
- 30 Wikiquotes would fall to lower milestone levels and none would rise to new levels.
- The Alemannic Wikiquote exists as a separate namespace within that language's Wikipedia, so it is not included in this analysis.
Wikinews
wiki name | date dumped | articles before | articles after | change | pct change | level before | level after | level change |
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Serbian Wikinews | 2012-06-22 | 71,510 | 71,497 | −13 | −0.02% | 70,000 | 70,000 | |
English Wikinews | 2012-06-20 | 19,169 | 19,364 | +195 | +1% | 15,000 | 15,000 | |
Polish Wikinews | 2012-06-26 | 12,824 | 10,481 | −2,343 | −18% | 10,000 | 10,000 | |
French Wikinews | 2012-06-17 | 12,204 | 11,849 | −355 | −3% | 10,000 | 10,000 | |
German Wikinews | 2012-06-20 | 11,387 | 11,874 | +487 | +4% | 10,000 | 10,000 | |
Italian Wikinews | 2012-06-16 | 8,499 | 6,956 | −1,543 | −18% | 5,000 | 5,000 | |
Spanish Wikinews | 2012-06-17 | 7,758 | 7,788 | +30 | +0.4% | 5,000 | 5,000 | |
Portuguese Wikinews | 2012-06-17 | 7,409 | 5,796 | −1,613 | −22% | 5,000 | 5,000 | |
Chinese Wikinews | 2012-06-22 | 4,187 | 3,930 | −257 | −6% | 2,000 | 2,000 | |
Russian Wikinews | 2012-06-25 | 3,801 | 3,500 | −301 | −8% | 2,000 | 2,000 | |
Japanese Wikinews | 2012-06-17 | 3,486 | 1,222 | −2,264 | −65% | 2,000 | 1,000 | down to 1,000 |
Swedish Wikinews | 2012-06-25 | 3,275 | 2,065 | −1,210 | −37% | 2,000 | 2,000 | |
Tamil Wikinews | 2012-06-21 | 2,203 | 1,928 | −275 | −12% | 2,000 | 1,000 | down to 1,000 |
Catalan Wikinews | 2012-06-21 | 2,056 | 1,036 | −1,020 | −50% | 2,000 | 1,000 | down to 1,000 |
Greek Wikinews | 2012-06-23 | 1,829 | 1,817 | −12 | −0.7% | 1,000 | 1,000 | |
Czech Wikinews | 2012-06-17 | 1,655 | 1,297 | −358 | −22% | 1,000 | 1,000 | |
Persian Wikinews | 2012-06-16 | 1,447 | 1,400 | −47 | −3% | 1,000 | 1,000 | |
Arabic Wikinews | 2012-06-16 | 1,218 | 1,104 | −114 | −9% | 1,000 | 1,000 | |
Dutch Wikinews | 2012-06-16 | 1,215 | 284 | −931 | −77% | 1,000 | 200 | down to 200 |
Finnish Wikinews | 2012-06-22 | 1,177 | 368 | −809 | −69% | 1,000 | 200 | down to 200 |
Romanian Wikinews | 2012-06-23 | 1,120 | 1,268 | +148 | +13% | 1,000 | 1,000 | |
Hebrew Wikinews | 2012-06-16 | 1,053 | 220 | −833 | −79% | 1,000 | 200 | down to 200 |
Bulgarian Wikinews | 2012-06-21 | 999 | 98 | −901 | −90% | 500 | 0 | down to 0 |
Turkish Wikinews | 2012-06-21 | 939 | 888 | −51 | −5% | 500 | 500 | |
Hungarian Wikinews | 2012-06-17 | 813 | 494 | −319 | −39% | 500 | 200 | down to 200 |
Sindhi Wikinews | 2012-06-21 | 749 | 13 | −736 | −98% | 500 | 0 | down to 0 |
Albanian Wikinews | 2012-06-26 | 728 | 728 | 0 | 0% | 500 | 500 | |
Ukrainian Wikinews | 2012-06-17 | 667 | 260 | −407 | −61% | 500 | 200 | down to 200 |
Norwegian (Bokmål) Wikinews | 2012-06-17 | 584 | 574 | −10 | −2% | 500 | 500 | |
Bosnian Wikinews | 2012-06-21 | 259 | 279 | +20 | +8% | 200 | 200 | |
Thai Wikinews | 2012-06-21 | 181 | 25 | −156 | −86% | 100 | 0 | down to 0 |
Esperanto Wikinews | 2012-06-26 | 162 | 164 | +2 | +1% | 100 | 100 | |
Korean Wikinews | 2012-06-16 | 158 | 153 | −5 | −3% | 100 | 100 |
Things to note:
- 11 Wikinews languages would fall to lower milestone levels and none would rise to new levels.
- The Alemannic Wikinews and Low German/Low Saxon Wikinews exist as separate namespaces within their respective language Wikipedias and so are not included in this analysis.
Wikiversity
wiki name | date dumped | articles before | articles after | change | pct change | level before | level after | level change |
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English Wikiversity | 2012-06-25 | 18,359 | 15,513 | −2,846 | −16% | 15,000 | 15,000 | |
French Wikiversity | 2012-06-17 | 9,221 | 7,387 | −1,834 | −20% | 5,000 | 5,000 | |
German Wikiversity | 2012-06-20 | 3,926 | 12,531 | +8,605 | +219.18% | 2,000 | 10,000 | up to 10,000 |
Multilingual Wikiversity | 2012-06-20 | 3,000 | 2,284 | −716 | −24% | 2,000 | 2,000 | |
Russian Wikiversity | 2012-06-16 | 2,522 | 2,190 | −332 | −13% | 2,000 | 2,000 | |
Czech Wikiversity | 2012-06-17 | 2,478 | 1,679 | −799 | −32% | 2,000 | 1,000 | down to 1,000 |
Italian Wikiversity | 2012-06-20 | 1,640 | 1,637 | −3 | −0.2% | 1,000 | 1,000 | |
Spanish Wikiversity | 2012-06-17 | 1,178 | 921 | −257 | −22% | 1,000 | 500 | down to 500 |
Portuguese Wikiversity | 2012-06-17 | 1,078 | 1,161 | +83 | +8% | 1,000 | 1,000 | |
Arabic Wikiversity | 2012-06-16 | 536 | 535 | −1 | −0.2% | 500 | 500 | |
Greek Wikiversity | 2012-06-16 | 459 | 317 | −142 | −31% | 200 | 200 | |
Finnish Wikiversity | 2012-06-17 | 416 | 302 | −114 | −27% | 200 | 200 | |
Swedish Wikiversity | 2012-06-15 | 402 | 315 | −87 | −22% | 200 | 200 | |
Slovenian Wikiversity | 2012-06-21 | 258 | 258 | 0 | 0% | 200 | 200 | |
Japanese Wikiversity | 2012-06-17 | 146 | 134 | −12 | −8% | 100 | 100 |
Note: 1 Wikiversity would rise to a new milestone level and 2 would fall to lower levels.
Other possible article counting criteria
Clearly there are big differences between the old and new definitions of what constitutes an article. While the new definition may be closer to the original intent of the "Article count reform" voters (although even this is not entirely clear), people have gotten used to the old way of doing things and might be disturbed by large changes in article counts. In particular, some might consider it a "bug" in the new method that, say, category links are no longer considered.
For this reason, it might be time to think about what other criteria could be used to count articles.
Below is a table containing alternate article-count statistics for several (10 or 5) wikis from each project that either have shown (Wiktionaries and Wikisources) or would show if updated (the rest) the "most significant" changes in article counts. (The "significance" of a change in article count is defined as the percent change multiplied by the actual change; this is based on the idea that a large percentage change is more significant if it reflects a large actual change, and vice-versa.)
As alluded to earlier, these statistics were generated by a Perl script I (dcljr) wrote to download and parse relevant database dumps. Unlike the previous "Wiktionaries" and "Wikisources" tables, these stats are not based on API queries but instead are all based on dumps (the ones for the two aforementioned projects being before May 10).
For convenience, I repeat here the list of different types of links (now including "template links") that have been used — or could possibly be used — to count articles, along with the associated SQL databases that currently track such links (note that "page.sql" contains the page IDs that each of these other databases refer to):
link type | examples | database |
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page (on same wiki) | [[Babel]] , [[Talk:Babel]] , [[:Category:Software]] , [[:Image:Cat.jpg]] , [[:File:Cat.jpg]] |
pagelinks.sql |
category | [[Category:Software]] |
categorylinks.sql |
image/file | [[Image:Cat.jpg]] , [[File:Cat.jpg]] |
imagelinks.sql |
interlanguage | [[de:Wikipedia:Hauptseite]] , [[:de:Wikipedia:Hauptseite]] |
langlinks.sql |
interwiki | [[species:]] , [[wookieepedia:]] |
iwlinks.sql |
template | {{fact}} , {{fact|date=June 2012}} |
templatelinks.sql |
hidden× | <!-- [[don't look at me]] --> |
(none) |
deactivated× | <nowiki>[[look at me]]</nowiki> |
(none) |
any text containing "[["× | Wikilinks start with two open-brackets (<tt>[[</tt>). |
(none) |
- Note ×: Not a real wikilink, so not contained in any "links" database.
Note that a "template link" does not mean a wikilink provided by a template; it simply refers to any {{template call}}
, regardless of whether the template provides any wikilinks (or, indeed, any content at all, since the target template may not even exist).
Now for the various definitions of what might constitute an article — all of which should be understood to begin with the phrase "non-redirect in a content namespace, containing at least one…":
- pagelink definition – "…page link" (the new definition, used since May 2011)
- page-cat definition – "…page or category link"
- page-cat-img defintion – "…page, category, or image/file link"
- any-wikilink defintion – "…page, category, image/file, interlanguage, or interwiki link" (this more or less stands in for the "old" way of counting articles, even though it's not the same — as explained above, as with all of these dump-based counting methods, it counts wikilinks that are provided via template calls, which the old method couldn't do, and doesn't count hidden or deactivated links, nor "non-link" text simply containing the string "[[")
- page-cat-templ definition – "…page or category link, or any template call" (regardless of whether the template provides any links — the idea behind this definition is that all of these somehow refer to other pages definitely on the same wiki)
- page-cat-lang defintion – "…page, category, or interlanguage link" (the idea here is that since interlanguage links connect "equivalent" content in different languages, they should be treated similarly to links between articles on the same wiki [i.e., pagelinks])
If someone wants to suggest Yet Another definition, I can modify my Perl script to use it (as long as it uses some combination of the database-tracked link types listed above).
project | wiki name | date | total pages | stats articles | pagelink article count | pct diff | page-cat article count | pct diff | page-cat-img article count | pct diff | any-wikilink article count | pct diff | page-cat-templ article count | pct diff | page-cat-lang article count | pct diff |
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