User:Dcljr/Article counts

The information on this page is from 2012. The article counts for all Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikiversity, and Wikivoyage languages (but not Wikibooks) were recalculated on 29 March 2015. For more current information, see Article counts revisited.

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script was consistently undercounting articles, but it turns out I was using the wrong (or, more accurately, an out-of-date) definition of what counts as an article.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):

1. page links: e.g., [[Babel]] or [[Talk:Babel]], etc.
2. category links: [[Category:Software]]
3. image/file links: [[File:Yes.png]]
4. interlanguage links: [[de:Wikipedia:Hauptseite]] or [[:de:Wikipedia:Hauptseite]]
5. interwiki links: [[species:]]
6. hidden links: <!-- [[don't look at me]] -->
7. deactivated links: <nowiki>[[look at me]]</nowiki>
8. 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

Wiktionary article count changes on May 10, 2012

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

Wikisource article count changes on May 10, 2012

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. (Note: This happened on 29 March 2015.) 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 almost the same as in the previous section, except that the "articles before" and "articles after" counts are both based on database dumps made on the indicated dates (shown in the "date dumped" column). Each "articles before" count is from the appropriate "site_stats.sql" dump, and is equivalent to the on-wiki count given by an API request for "statistics", by the {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} magic word, and by Special:Statistics. The "articles after" count is based on parsing the "page.sql" and "pagelinks.sql" dumps, using the current definition of what constitutes an article.

Unlike the tables above, initial sorting for these tables is by "articles before" in reverse numerical order (since no secondary sort key was used, any "ties" are listed in an arbitrary order).

Wikipedia

Changes to Wikipedia article counts if they were updated on the indicated dates

wiki name	date dumped	articles before	articles after	change	pct change	level before	level after	level change
English Wikipedia	2012-07-02	3,988,360	4,029,386	+41,026	+1%	3,000,000	4,000,000	up to 4,000,000
German Wikipedia	2012-06-30	1,427,135	1,430,529	+3,394	+0.2%	1,000,000	1,000,000
French Wikipedia	2012-06-27	1,265,582	1,265,342	−240	−0.02%	1,000,000	1,000,000
Dutch Wikipedia	2012-06-27	1,051,192	1,051,240	+48	+0.00%	1,000,000	1,000,000
Italian Wikipedia	2012-07-05	936,676	944,787	+8,111	+0.9%	900,000	900,000
Polish Wikipedia	2012-06-18	903,338	903,005	−333	−0.04%	900,000	900,000
Spanish Wikipedia	2012-07-07	901,938	902,017	+79	+0.01%	900,000	900,000
Russian Wikipedia	2012-07-10	873,918	876,370	+2,452	+0.3%	800,000	800,000
Japanese Wikipedia	2012-06-30	812,896	818,859	+5,963	+0.7%	800,000	800,000
Portuguese Wikipedia	2012-06-27	740,216	740,207	−9	−0.00%	700,000	700,000
Chinese Wikipedia	2012-07-04	487,761	480,664	−7,097	−1%	400,000	400,000
Swedish Wikipedia	2012-07-05	479,154	479,104	−50	−0.01%	400,000	400,000
Vietnamese Wikipedia	2012-07-05	425,701	443,301	+17,600	+4%	400,000	400,000
Ukrainian Wikipedia	2012-07-12	390,969	391,448	+479	+0.1%	300,000	300,000
Catalan Wikipedia	2012-07-10	378,537	379,037	+500	+0.1%	300,000	300,000
Norwegian (Bokmål) Wikipedia	2012-07-11	347,326	339,089	−8,237	−2%	300,000	300,000
Finnish Wikipedia	2012-07-09	300,905	301,039	+134	+0.04%	300,000	300,000
Czech Wikipedia	2012-07-08	235,435	235,356	−79	−0.03%	200,000	200,000
Hungarian Wikipedia	2012-07-12	220,347	220,738	+391	+0.2%	200,000	200,000
Korean Wikipedia	2012-07-11	206,858	207,091	+233	+0.1%	200,000	200,000
Persian Wikipedia	2012-07-11	204,264	204,367	+103	+0.05%	200,000	200,000
Indonesian Wikipedia	2012-07-08	191,075	191,922	+847	+0.4%	150,000	150,000
Turkish Wikipedia	2012-07-02	189,792	190,322	+530	+0.3%	150,000	150,000
Arabic Wikipedia	2012-07-03	181,172	179,583	−1,589	−0.9%	150,000	150,000
Romanian Wikipedia	2012-07-09	181,151	181,531	+380	+0.2%	150,000	150,000
Slovak Wikipedia	2012-07-06	174,353	174,526	+173	+0.10%	150,000	150,000
Esperanto Wikipedia	2012-07-08	166,836	166,958	+122	+0.07%	150,000	150,000
Danish Wikipedia	2012-07-08	165,930	165,801	−129	−0.08%	150,000	150,000
Serbian Wikipedia	2012-07-01	161,274	161,671	+397	+0.2%	150,000	150,000
Lithuanian Wikipedia	2012-07-07	151,898	151,933	+35	+0.02%	150,000	150,000
Malay Wikipedia	2012-07-05	137,693	137,629	−64	−0.05%	100,000	100,000
Hebrew Wikipedia	2012-07-05	135,376	136,783	+1,407	+1%	100,000	100,000
Basque Wikipedia	2012-07-04	135,207	135,249	+42	+0.03%	100,000	100,000
Bulgarian Wikipedia	2012-07-09	133,326	133,477	+151	+0.1%	100,000	100,000
Slovenian Wikipedia	2012-07-09	133,224	133,236	+12	+0.01%	100,000	100,000
Kazakh Wikipedia	2012-07-06	127,580	124,780	−2,800	−2%	100,000	100,000
Volapük Wikipedia	2012-07-10	119,007	119,007	0	0%	100,000	100,000
Croatian Wikipedia	2012-07-09	110,736	114,627	+3,891	+4%	100,000	100,000
Waray-Waray Wikipedia	2012-07-07	110,436	110,376	−60	−0.05%	100,000	100,000
Hindi Wikipedia	2012-07-01	102,867	91,519	−11,348	−11%	100,000	90,000	down to 90,000
Estonian Wikipedia	2012-07-06	98,121	97,487	−634	−0.6%	90,000	90,000
Galician Wikipedia	2012-07-04	87,916	88,031	+115	+0.1%	80,000	80,000
Azerbaijani Wikipedia	2012-07-08	88,172	86,872	−1,300	−1%	80,000	80,000
Nynorsk Wikipedia	2012-07-08	85,842	85,938	+96	+0.1%	80,000	80,000
Simple English Wikipedia	2012-07-07	84,624	82,404	−2,220	−3%	80,000	80,000
Latin Wikipedia	2012-07-07	76,405	76,483	+78	+0.1%	70,000	70,000
Greek Wikipedia	2012-07-08	75,219	75,351	+132	+0.2%	70,000	70,000
Thai Wikipedia	2012-07-09	74,506	74,492	−14	−0.02%	70,000	70,000
Nepal Bhasa Wikipedia	2012-07-07	69,476	69,961	+485	+0.7%	60,000	60,000
Aromanian Wikipedia	2012-07-07	61,657	61,594	−63	−0.1%	60,000	60,000
Occitan Wikipedia	2012-07-08	61,393	61,065	−328	−0.5%	60,000	60,000
Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia	2012-07-07	61,163	61,289	+126	+0.2%	60,000	60,000
Georgian Wikipedia	2012-07-07	58,130	58,327	+197	+0.3%	50,000	50,000
Macedonian Wikipedia	2012-07-07	56,898	56,897	−1	−0.00%	50,000	50,000
Tagalog Wikipedia	2012-07-09	55,922	55,913	−9	−0.02%	50,000	50,000
Haitian Wikipedia	2012-07-07	53,174	52,674	−500	−0.9%	50,000	50,000
Piedmontese Wikipedia	2012-07-08	50,469	50,473	+4	+0.01%	50,000	50,000
Telugu Wikipedia	2012-07-07	50,316	50,222	−94	−0.2%	50,000	50,000
Tamil Wikipedia	2012-07-06	47,212	45,716	−1,496	−3%	40,000	40,000
Belarusian (Tarashkevitsa) Wikipedia	2012-07-08	44,909	45,013	+104	+0.2%	40,000	40,000
Belarusian Wikipedia	2012-07-07	43,805	43,907	+102	+0.2%	40,000	40,000
Breton Wikipedia	2012-07-06	43,048	43,061	+13	+0.03%	40,000	40,000
Cebuano Wikipedia	2012-07-10	42,888	42,881	−7	−0.02%	40,000	40,000
Latvian Wikipedia	2012-07-07	42,545	42,685	+140	+0.3%	40,000	40,000
Albanian Wikipedia	2012-07-08	41,639	39,606	−2,033	−5%	40,000	30,000	down to 30,000
Javanese Wikipedia	2012-07-07	38,580	38,598	+18	+0.05%	30,000	30,000
Malagasy Wikipedia	2012-07-08	37,854	37,721	−133	−0.4%	30,000	30,000
Welsh Wikipedia	2012-07-01	36,687	36,755	+68	+0.2%	30,000	30,000
Marathi Wikipedia	2012-07-08	36,651	36,563	−88	−0.2%	30,000	30,000
Luxembourgish Wikipedia	2012-07-08	36,543	36,554	+11	+0.03%	30,000	30,000
Icelandic Wikipedia	2012-07-01	34,143	34,279	+136	+0.4%	30,000	30,000
Bosnian Wikipedia	2012-07-02	32,346	32,513	+167	+0.5%	30,000	30,000
Yoruba Wikipedia	2012-07-08	30,030	29,985	−45	−0.1%	30,000	20,000	down to 20,000
Aragonese Wikipedia	2012-07-07	27,748	27,775	+27	+0.10%	20,000	20,000
Lombard Wikipedia	2012-07-04	27,040	27,026	−14	−0.05%	20,000	20,000
Armenian Wikipedia	2012-07-07	26,615	26,431	−184	−0.7%	20,000	20,000
West Frisian Wikipedia	2012-07-07	25,128	25,112	−16	−0.06%	20,000	20,000
Bishnupriya Manipuri Wikipedia	2012-07-10	24,765	24,697	−68	−0.3%	20,000	20,000
Malayalam Wikipedia	2012-07-08	24,552	24,760	+208	+0.8%	20,000	20,000
Western Panjabi Wikipedia	2012-07-09	24,333	24,586	+253	+1%	20,000	20,000
Swahili Wikipedia	2012-07-06	24,072	24,070	−2	−0.01%	20,000	20,000
Bengali Wikipedia	2012-07-07	23,660	23,258	−402	−2%	20,000	20,000
Ido Wikipedia	2012-07-06	23,646	23,089	−557	−2%	20,000	20,000
Afrikaans Wikipedia	2012-07-01	23,145	23,176	+31	+0.1%	20,000	20,000
Gujarati Wikipedia	2012-07-07	22,019	21,739	−280	−1%	20,000	20,000
Cantonese Wikipedia	2012-07-09	20,915	20,973	+58	+0.3%	20,000	20,000
Nepali Wikipedia	2012-07-08	20,626	18,678	−1,948	−9%	20,000	15,000	down to 15,000
Uzbek Wikipedia	2012-07-06	20,060	19,914	−146	−0.7%	20,000	15,000	down to 15,000
Low German/Low Saxon Wikipedia	2012-07-08	19,343	19,376	+33	+0.2%	15,000	15,000
Urdu Wikipedia	2012-07-07	18,634	16,789	−1,845	−10%	15,000	15,000
Kurdish Wikipedia	2012-07-08	18,594	18,484	−110	−0.6%	15,000	15,000
Asturian Wikipedia	2012-07-07	18,260	18,254	−6	−0.03%	15,000	15,000
Sicilian Wikipedia	2012-07-05	17,904	17,774	−130	−0.7%	15,000	15,000
Sundanese Wikipedia	2012-07-07	17,235	17,289	+54	+0.3%	15,000	15,000
Quechua Wikipedia	2012-07-07	17,100	17,134	+34	+0.2%	15,000	15,000
Zazaki Wikipedia	2012-07-08	16,432	16,939	+507	+3%	15,000	15,000
Bashkir Wikipedia	2012-07-01	15,987	15,957	−30	−0.2%	15,000	15,000
Tatar Wikipedia	2012-07-08	15,414	15,417	+3	+0.02%	15,000	15,000
Burmese Wikipedia	2012-07-07	15,221	13,010	−2,211	−15%	15,000	10,000	down to 10,000
Irish Wikipedia	2012-07-07	14,917	14,895	−22	−0.1%	10,000	10,000
Chuvash Wikipedia	2012-07-08	13,816	13,743	−73	−0.5%	10,000	10,000
Interlingua Wikipedia	2012-07-07	13,634	13,615	−19	−0.1%	10,000	10,000
Neapolitan Wikipedia	2012-07-09	13,536	13,440	−96	−0.7%	10,000	10,000
Samogitian Wikipedia	2012-07-02	13,226	13,186	−40	−0.3%	10,000	10,000
Banyumasan Wikipedia	2012-07-07	12,959	12,838	−121	−0.9%	10,000	10,000
Walloon Wikipedia	2012-07-05	12,444	12,363	−81	−0.7%	10,000	10,000
Alemannic Wikipedia	2012-07-08	11,803	11,783	−20	−0.2%	10,000	10,000
Amharic Wikipedia	2012-07-08	11,686	7,263	−4,423	−38%	10,000	5,000	down to 5,000
Kannada Wikipedia	2012-07-07	11,662	11,538	−124	−1%	10,000	10,000
Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia	2012-07-07	10,915	7,928	−2,987	−27%	10,000	5,000	down to 5,000
Buginese Wikipedia	2012-07-09	10,681	10,677	−4	−0.04%	10,000	10,000
Tajik Wikipedia	2012-07-08	10,321	10,325	+4	+0.04%	10,000	10,000
Min Nan Wikipedia	2012-06-29	9,930	9,922	−8	−0.08%	5,000	5,000
Yiddish Wikipedia	2012-07-05	9,582	10,203	+621	+6%	5,000	10,000	up to 10,000
Venetian Wikipedia	2012-07-06	9,468	9,490	+22	+0.2%	5,000	5,000
Scots Wikipedia	2012-06-29	9,423	9,384	−39	−0.4%	5,000	5,000
Fiji Hindi Wikipedia	2012-06-28	9,226	9,258	+32	+0.3%	5,000	5,000
Tarantino Wikipedia	2012-07-06	9,139	9,130	−9	−0.10%	5,000	5,000
Ossetian Wikipedia	2012-06-28	8,698	8,692	−6	−0.07%	5,000	5,000
Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia	2012-06-30	8,604	8,703	+99	+1%	5,000	5,000
Nahuatl Wikipedia	2012-06-29	8,491	8,467	−24	−0.3%	5,000	5,000
Mazandarani Wikipedia	2012-07-02	8,352	8,239	−113	−1%	5,000	5,000
Sakha Wikipedia	2012-06-28	8,201	7,718	−483	−6%	5,000	5,000
Kyrgyz Wikipedia	2012-06-30	7,934	7,608	−326	−4%	5,000	5,000
Mongolian Wikipedia	2012-06-28	7,755	7,529	−226	−3%	5,000	5,000
Sanskrit Wikipedia	2012-07-04	7,639	6,857	−782	−10%	5,000	5,000
Kapampangan Wikipedia	2012-07-04	7,540	7,470	−70	−0.9%	5,000	5,000
Upper Sorbian Wikipedia	2012-06-28	7,375	7,334	−41	−0.6%	5,000	5,000
Limburgish Wikipedia	2012-07-05	7,023	7,004	−19	−0.3%	5,000	5,000
Maori Wikipedia	2012-06-30	7,019	7,014	−5	−0.07%	5,000	5,000
Sinhalese Wikipedia	2012-07-04	6,707	5,411	−1,296	−19%	5,000	5,000
Corsican Wikipedia	2012-07-04	6,270	6,156	−114	−2%	5,000	5,000
Sorani Wikipedia	2012-06-30	6,138	6,034	−104	−2%	5,000	5,000
Gan Wikipedia	2012-06-27	6,081	6,027	−54	−0.9%	5,000	5,000
Gilaki Wikipedia	2012-07-02	5,972	5,672	−300	−5%	5,000	5,000
Tibetan Wikipedia	2012-07-04	5,584	5,016	−568	−10%	5,000	5,000
Faroese Wikipedia	2012-06-29	5,541	5,530	−11	−0.2%	5,000	5,000
Bavarian Wikipedia	2012-06-30	5,507	5,423	−84	−2%	5,000	5,000
Central Bicolano Wikipedia	2012-07-06	5,422	5,411	−11	−0.2%	5,000	5,000
Ilokano Wikipedia	2012-07-05	5,243	4,250	−993	−19%	5,000	2,000	down to 2,000
Hill Mari Wikipedia	2012-07-05	5,075	4,772	−303	−6%	5,000	2,000	down to 2,000
Voro Wikipedia	2012-06-27	4,832	4,802	−30	−0.6%	2,000	2,000
Dutch Low Saxon Wikipedia	2012-06-28	4,800	4,810	+10	+0.2%	2,000	2,000
Northern Sami Wikipedia	2012-06-30	4,773	4,650	−123	−3%	2,000	2,000
Turkmen Wikipedia	2012-06-28	4,483	4,193	−290	−6%	2,000	2,000
West Flemish Wikipedia	2012-06-28	4,455	4,401	−54	−1%	2,000	2,000
Pashto Wikipedia	2012-07-06	4,374	4,332	−42	−1.0%	2,000	2,000
Manx Wikipedia	2012-06-28	4,033	4,040	+7	+0.2%	2,000	2,000
Rusyn/Ruthenian Wikipedia	2012-06-30	3,674	3,357	−317	−9%	2,000	2,000
Divehi Wikipedia	2012-06-29	3,617	2,934	−683	−19%	2,000	2,000
Norman Wikipedia	2012-06-27	3,513	3,516	+3	+0.09%	2,000	2,000
Pangasinan Wikipedia	2012-06-28	3,476	975	−2,501	−72%	2,000	500	down to 500
Punjabi Wikipedia	2012-06-28	3,412	2,755	−657	−19%	2,000	2,000
Komi-Permyak Wikipedia	2012-07-05	3,396	3,378	−18	−0.5%	2,000	2,000
Romansh Wikipedia	2012-07-06	3,351	3,304	−47	−1%	2,000	2,000
Khmer Wikipedia	2012-06-28	3,278	3,059	−219	−7%	2,000	2,000
Komi Wikipedia	2012-06-30	3,252	3,195	−57	−2%	2,000	2,000
Udmurt Wikipedia	2012-06-28	3,080	2,929	−151	−5%	2,000	2,000
Kashubian Wikipedia	2012-06-30	3,077	3,048	−29	−0.9%	2,000	2,000
Meadow Mari Wikipedia	2012-07-06	3,028	3,149	+121	+4%	2,000	2,000
Friulian Wikipedia	2012-06-28	3,009	2,922	−87	−3%	2,000	2,000
Maltese Wikipedia	2012-06-28	2,998	2,955	−43	−1%	2,000	2,000
Zeelandic Wikipedia	2012-07-04	2,948	2,913	−35	−1%	2,000	2,000
Wu Wikipedia	2012-06-30	2,941	2,876	−65	−2%	2,000	2,000
Ligurian Wikipedia	2012-06-30	2,908	2,464	−444	−15%	2,000	2,000
Uyghur Wikipedia	2012-06-28	2,898	2,098	−800	−28%	2,000	2,000
Mingrelian Wikipedia	2012-07-05	2,876	2,875	−1	−0.03%	2,000	2,000
Ladino Wikipedia	2012-06-30	2,875	2,864	−11	−0.4%	2,000	2,000
Pali Wikipedia	2012-07-06	2,803	2,509	−294	−10%	2,000	2,000
Sardinian Wikipedia	2012-06-30	2,736	2,649	−87	−3%	2,000	2,000
Bihari Wikipedia	2012-07-05	2,709	2,572	−137	−5%	2,000	2,000
Classical Chinese Wikipedia	2012-06-30	2,704	2,686	−18	−0.7%	2,000	2,000
Oriya Wikipedia	2012-06-28	2,669	2,654	−15	−0.6%	2,000	2,000
Novial Wikipedia	2012-06-27	2,612	2,480	−132	−5%	2,000	2,000
Ripuarian Wikipedia	2012-06-28	2,599	2,654	+55	+2%	2,000	2,000
Anglo-Saxon Wikipedia	2012-07-06	2,542	2,510	−32	−1%	2,000	2,000
Cornish Wikipedia	2012-06-30	2,421	2,409	−12	−0.5%	2,000	2,000
Somali Wikipedia	2012-06-28	2,410	2,120	−290	−12%	2,000	2,000
Saterland Frisian Wikipedia	2012-06-28	2,372	2,600	+228	+10%	2,000	2,000
Navajo Wikipedia	2012-06-27	2,369	2,379	+10	+0.4%	2,000	2,000
Hakka Wikipedia	2012-07-05	2,269	2,248	−21	−0.9%	2,000	2,000
North Frisian Wikipedia	2012-07-06	2,251	2,285	+34	+2%	2,000	2,000
Aymara Wikipedia	2012-07-05	2,240	2,108	−132	−6%	2,000	2,000
Franco-Provençal/Arpitan Wikipedia	2012-06-29	2,189	2,163	−26	−1%	2,000	2,000
Extremaduran Wikipedia	2012-07-05	2,078	2,266	+188	+9%	2,000	2,000
Silesian Wikipedia	2012-06-29	2,051	2,346	+295	+14%	2,000	2,000
Picard Wikipedia	2012-06-27	2,026	1,950	−76	−4%	2,000	1,000	down to 1,000
Interlingue Wikipedia	2012-06-30	1,922	1,902	−20	−1%	1,000	1,000
Gagauz Wikipedia	2012-07-05	1,918	1,835	−83	−4%	1,000	1,000
Hawaiian Wikipedia	2012-07-06	1,844	1,825	−19	−1%	1,000	1,000
Kalmyk Wikipedia	2012-06-30	1,836	1,606	−230	−13%	1,000	1,000
Lingala Wikipedia	2012-07-02	1,828	1,777	−51	−3%	1,000	1,000
Kinyarwanda Wikipedia	2012-07-04	1,808	1,750	−58	−3%	1,000	1,000
Pennsylvania German Wikipedia	2012-07-05	1,805	1,623	−182	−10%	1,000	1,000
Palatinate German Wikipedia	2012-07-05	1,779	1,775	−4	−0.2%	1,000	1,000
Karachay-Balkar Wikipedia	2012-06-30	1,756	1,752	−4	−0.2%	1,000	1,000
Veps Wikipedia	2012-06-29	1,746	1,746	0	0%	1,000	1,000
Crimean Tatar Wikipedia	2012-06-28	1,728	1,713	−15	−0.9%	1,000	1,000
Emiliano-Romagnolo Wikipedia	2012-06-28	1,717	1,724	+7	+0.4%	1,000	1,000
Guarani Wikipedia	2012-07-02	1,689	1,642	−47	−3%	1,000	1,000
Acehnese Wikipedia	2012-06-30	1,683	1,776	+93	+6%	1,000	1,000
Tongan Wikipedia	2012-06-29	1,648	1,669	+21	+1%	1,000	1,000
Chechen Wikipedia	2012-06-30	1,602	1,280	−322	−20%	1,000	1,000
Greenlandic Wikipedia	2012-06-28	1,568	1,552	−16	−1%	1,000	1,000
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic Wikipedia	2012-07-05	1,536	1,521	−15	−1.0%	1,000	1,000
Erzya Wikipedia	2012-07-06	1,513	1,454	−59	−4%	1,000	1,000
Lower Sorbian Wikipedia	2012-06-27	1,422	1,649	+227	+16%	1,000	1,000
Assamese Wikipedia	2012-07-06	1,337	1,204	−133	−10%	1,000	1,000
Banjar Wikipedia	2012-07-05	1,290	1,176	−114	−9%	1,000	1,000
Papiamentu Wikipedia	2012-06-29	1,284	1,112	−172	−13%	1,000	1,000
Tok Pisin Wikipedia	2012-06-28	1,202	1,197	−5	−0.4%	1,000	1,000
Lak Wikipedia	2012-06-30	1,191	1,193	+2	+0.2%	1,000	1,000
Moksha Wikipedia	2012-06-30	1,131	1,007	−124	−11%	1,000	1,000
Wolof Wikipedia	2012-07-01	1,117	985	−132	−12%	1,000	500	down to 500
Lojban Wikipedia	2012-06-28	1,107	1,094	−13	−1%	1,000	1,000
Kabyle Wikipedia	2012-07-04	1,068	969	−99	−9%	1,000	500	down to 500
Shona Wikipedia	2012-06-30	1,043	963	−80	−8%	1,000	500	down to 500
Avar Wikipedia	2012-07-02	1,021	998	−23	−2%	1,000	500	down to 500
Zamboanga Chavacano Wikipedia	2012-06-29	947	788	−159	−17%	500	500
Tahitian Wikipedia	2012-06-27	876	673	−203	−23%	500	500
Sranan Tongo Wikipedia	2012-06-28	869	813	−56	−6%	500	500
Kabardian Wikipedia	2012-07-05	832	832	0	0%	500	500
Lao Wikipedia	2012-07-01	820	681	−139	−17%	500	500
Lezgian Wikipedia	2012-06-30	811	810	−1	−0.1%	500	500
Abkhazian Wikipedia	2012-06-28	791	754	−37	−5%	500	500
Mirandese Wikipedia	2012-06-30	736	1,255	+519	+71%	500	1,000	up to 1,000
Latgalian Wikipedia	2012-07-05	727	727	0	0%	500	500
Nauruan Wikipedia	2012-06-28	712	709	−3	−0.4%	500	500
Igbo Wikipedia	2012-07-02	692	685	−7	−1%	500	500
Kongo Wikipedia	2012-07-01	680	665	−15	−2%	500	500
Tetum Wikipedia	2012-07-04	657	645	−12	−2%	500	500
Zhuang Wikipedia	2012-06-28	606	517	−89	−15%	500	500
Karakalpak Wikipedia	2012-06-28	589	539	−50	−8%	500	500
Northern Sotho Wikipedia	2012-07-05	568	568	0	0%	500	500
Zulu Wikipedia	2012-06-28	560	519	−41	−7%	500	500
Romani Wikipedia	2012-07-06	524	510	−14	−3%	500	500
Old Church Slavonic Wikipedia	2012-06-30	507	519	+12	+2%	500	500
Tswana Wikipedia	2012-06-29	491	470	−21	−4%	200	200
Cherokee Wikipedia	2012-07-04	443	395	−48	−11%	200	200
Cheyenne Wikipedia	2012-06-29	433	423	−10	−2%	200	200
Gothic Wikipedia	2012-06-28	423	415	−8	−2%	200	200
Samoan Wikipedia	2012-07-01	420	401	−19	−5%	200	200
Bislama Wikipedia	2012-06-29	406	360	−46	−11%	200	200
Moldovan Wikipedia	2012-06-28	401	394	−7	−2%	200	200
Bambara Wikipedia	2012-07-02	386	329	−57	−15%	200	200
Inuktitut Wikipedia	2012-06-30	385	305	−80	−21%	200	200
Norfolk Wikipedia	2012-07-05	374	367	−7	−2%	200	200
Inupiak Wikipedia	2012-07-05	370	148	−222	−60%	200	100	down to 100
Swati Wikipedia	2012-06-28	361	361	0	0%	200	200
Sindhi Wikipedia	2012-06-30	357	327	−30	−8%	200	200
Pontic Wikipedia	2012-07-05	347	331	−16	−5%	200	200
Min Dong Wikipedia	2012-06-29	317	318	+1	+0.3%	200	200
Ewe Wikipedia	2012-06-28	291	291	0	0%	200	200
Hausa Wikipedia	2012-06-28	274	112	−162	−59%	200	100	down to 100
Tigrinya Wikipedia	2012-06-28	255	121	−134	−53%	200	100	down to 100
Buryat (Russia) Wikipedia	2012-06-30	250	240	−10	−4%	200	200
Tsonga Wikipedia	2012-07-06	241	177	−64	−27%	200	100	down to 100
Oromo Wikipedia	2012-06-28	239	227	−12	−5%	200	200
Kashmiri Wikipedia	2012-06-28	238	122	−116	−49%	200	100	down to 100
Kikuyu Wikipedia	2012-07-02	198	187	−11	−6%	100	100
Venda Wikipedia	2012-07-06	190	129	−61	−32%	100	100
Sango Wikipedia	2012-06-30	183	165	−18	−10%	100	100
Kirundi Wikipedia	2012-06-27	183	91	−92	−50%	100	0	down to 0
Cree Wikipedia	2012-06-28	167	138	−29	−17%	100	100
Dzongkha Wikipedia	2012-06-28	166	136	−30	−18%	100	100
Luganda Wikipedia	2012-07-01	163	70	−93	−57%	100	0	down to 0
Akan Wikipedia	2012-07-05	158	104	−54	−34%	100	100
Fula Wikipedia	2012-06-27	150	105	−45	−30%	100	100
Tumbuka Wikipedia	2012-07-01	151	80	−71	−47%	100	0	down to 0
Fijian Wikipedia	2012-06-27	149	109	−40	−27%	100	100
Sesotho Wikipedia	2012-07-06	145	128	−17	−12%	100	100
Twi Wikipedia	2012-07-06	142	89	−53	−37%	100	0	down to 0
Xhosa Wikipedia	2012-07-01	140	112	−28	−20%	100	100
Chamorro Wikipedia	2012-06-29	140	121	−19	−14%	100	100
Chichewa Wikipedia	2012-06-27	141	77	−64	−45%	100	0	down to 0
Ndonga Wikipedia	2012-06-28	21	8	−13	−62%	0	0
Sichuan Yi Wikipedia	2012-07-06	16	3	−13	−81%	0	0
Choctaw Wikipedia	2012-07-01	15	6	−9	−60%	0	0
Marshallese Wikipedia	2012-06-29	10	4	−6	−60%	0	0
Afar Wikipedia	2012-06-29	6	1	−5	−83%	0	0
Kuanyama Wikipedia	2012-07-02	5	4	−1	−20%	0	0
Hiri Motu Wikipedia	2012-07-06	3	3	0	0%	0	0
Muscogee Wikipedia	2012-06-28	2	1	−1	−50%	0	0
Kanuri Wikipedia	2012-06-28	1	0	−1	−100%	0	0
Herero Wikipedia	2012-07-06	0	0	0	0	0	0

Note:

• 3 Wikipedias would rise to new milestone levels and 26 would fall to lower levels.

Wikibooks

Changes to Wikibooks article counts if they were updated on the indicated dates

wiki name	date dumped	articles before	articles after	change	pct change	level before	level after	level change
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 to lower levels.
• 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

Changes to Wikiquote article counts if they were updated on the indicated dates

wiki name	date dumped	articles before	articles after	change	pct change	level before	level after	level change
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:

• No Wikiquotes would rise to new milestone levels and 30 would fall to lower levels.
• The Alemannic Wikiquote exists as a separate namespace within that language's Wikipedia, so it is not included in this analysis.

Wikinews

Changes to Wikinews article counts if they were updated on the indicated dates

wiki name	date dumped	articles before	articles after	change	pct change	level before	level after	level change
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:

• No Wikinews languages would rise to new milestone levels and 11 would fall to lower 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

Changes to Wikiversity article counts if they were updated on the indicated dates

wiki name	date dumped	articles before	articles after	change	pct change	level before	level after	level change
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.

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
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…":

• P = "…page link" (the new definition, used since May 2011)
• P-C = "…page or category link"
• P+C = "…page and category link" (i.e., at least one of each — note that this is the only one of these definitions that uses an "intersection" of two criteria)
• P-C-I = "…page, category, or image/file link"
• P-C-L = "…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., page links])
• P-C-T = "…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)
• P-C-I-L-W = "…page, category, image/file, interlanguage, or interwiki link" (this more or less stands in for the "old" way of counting articles, although 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 any text simply containing the string "[[")
• P-C-I-L-W-T = "…page, category, image/file, interlanguage, or interwiki link, or any template call"

If anyone wants to suggest Yet Another definition, I can modify my Perl script to use it (as long as it's based on some combination of the database-tracked link types listed above — in particular, I can't use the "comma" counting method, since that would require parsing the actual raw wiki code for each page).

The following table contains alternate article-count statistics based on the definitions just listed above for several 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.

To be more specific: the "significance" of a change in article count is defined here as the (absolute) change multiplied by the percent change; this is based on the idea that a large percent change isn't actually significant if it reflects a small actual change in count, and vice-versa. The table includes 5 or 10 wikis from each project (5 each from the smaller Wikinews and Wikiversity projects, 10 each from the rest) that showed the most significant changes in the tables above. (Note, therefore, that these are not the 60 most significant changes overall, because of the "stratified" manner in which they were selected.)

The rows of the table are initially sorted by project (chronologically, by date the project debuted — same order as the other tables above on this page), then alphabetically by language code.

As for the meanings of the columns…

Table key:

• project – two-letter abbreviation for each project, for sorting purposes (WP = Wikipedia, WT = Wiktionary, etc. — the rest should be sufficiently obvious)
• wiki name – linked to the Main Page of each wiki
• dump date – matches the dump date used in the appropriate table above; if the wiki is a Wiktionary or Wikisource, the "before" date is used (i.e., before the on-wiki article counts were fixed)
• stats articles – on-wiki article counts according to {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}, etc. (see the discussion of article counts for Wikipedia, etc., above for more explanation)
• content-ns non-redirs – number of non-redirects in all content namespaces (in other words, pool of "possible articles" based on common "baseline" criterion for all article counting methods)
• P article count – number of articles based on "P" definition above (this is the current official definition of an article)
• P-C article count, etc. – number of articles based on alternative definitions listed above
• (%) – all percents are out of "content-ns non-redirs" and apply to the column immediately to their left (for example, the first "(%)" column is the percent of content-namespace non-redirects that qualified as articles under the "pagelink" criterion)

Article counts by various criteria for wikis with significant (actual or potential) article-count changes

project	wiki name	dump date	stats articles	content-ns non-redirs	P article count	(%)	P-C article count	(%)	P+C article count	(%)	P-C-I article count	(%)	P-C-L article count	(%)	P-C-T article count	(%)	P-C-I-L-W article count	(%)	P-C-I-L-W-T article count	(%)
WP	Amharic Wikipedia	2012-07-08	11,686	11,711	7,263	62%	11,705	99.95%	7,244	62%	11,708	99.97%	11,707	99.97%	11,707	99.97%	11,709	99.98%	11,709	99.98%
WP	Burmese Wikipedia	2012-07-07	15,221	16,121	13,010	81%	15,481	96%	12,545	78%	15,553	96%	15,616	97%	15,493	96%	15,636	97%	15,644	97%

Note: 58 more wikis to be added to table…

Note: Progress in this section has come to a halt because I lost the working version of my Perl script that counted the articles in these various other ways. Although it's possible I could reconstruct this script, it doesn't look likely in the forseeable future. Sorry...