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December 2022

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  • Wikipedia ends the year with 60,245,010 articles in 326 languages (plus 3 language wikis with 0 articles), which constitutes a 4% increase in articles over the past year.
  • Wiktionary ends the year with 32,481,510 entries in 166 languages (plus 20 language wikis with 0 entries), a 5% increase in entries over the past year.
  • Wikiquote ends the year with 289,674 content pages in 80 languages (plus 13 language wikis with 0 content pages), a 9% increase in content pages over the past year.
  • Wikibooks ends the year with 339,727 book modules in 98 languages (plus 22 language wikis with 0 book modules), a 9% increase in book modules over the past year.
  • Wikisource ends the year with 5,555,695 text units in 213 languages (comprising 5,500,296 units in 74 individual language wikis and an additional 55,399 units in 146 languages at the Multiligual Wikisource — 7 languages have content in both places), a 9% increase in text units over the past year.
  • Wikinews ends the year with 1,741,499 articles in 34 languages, a 0.4% increase in articles over the past year.
  • Wikiversity ends the year with 143,885 learning modules in 54 languages (comprising 140,440 modules in 17 separate language wikis and an additional 3,445 modules in 37 languages at Wikiversity Beta), a 6% increase in learning modules over the past year.
  • Wikivoyage ends the year with 130,573 articles in 24 languages, a 3% increase in articles over the past year.
  • Wikimedia Commons ends the year with 89,709,814 media files, a 12% increase over the past year.
  • Wikispecies ends the year with 829,235 content pages, a 6% increase over the past year.
  • Wikidata ends the year with 101,103,735 items, a 5% increase over the past year.
  • Wikimedia Incubator ends the year with 143,153 content pages across 1,225 test wikis in 877 different languages (including 15 test wikis that are currently empty), a 5% increase in content pages and 10% increase in test wikis over the past year.
  • There were 12 content wikis created in 2022 (4 Wikipedias, 3 Wiktionaries, 4 Wikiquotes, and 1 Wikivoyage), 6 fewer than were created in 2021.
  • No content wikis were closed/locked in 2022.
Note: The article counts listed above are actual counts collected at around 00:20 UTC on 2023-01-01 (a little late this year). All counts are based on what MediaWiki sees as constituting an article (or content page), as reflected at each wiki's Special:Statistics page. Language counts (which were collected in the first 2 hours of 2023-01-01) include closed (but not deleted) wikis and count "Simple English" as a separate language when such a wiki exists within a project.

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November 2022

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October 2022

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September 2022

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  • The Welsh Wikipedia has reached 200,000 articles, as thousands of new articles are being created by a bot.

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  • The Indonesian Wiktionary has reached 150,000 entries and 1,000,000 page edits, with the addition of thousands of bot-created entries (by a local admin).

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August 2022

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  • The Santali Wikipedia has reached 100,000 page edits.
  • The maintenance script that initializes (recounts) the on-wiki statistics for all Wikimedia wikis is now set to run at 9pm UTC every day; this time was chosen to better sync up with daily statistics collection activities that begin at midnight UTC.

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  • The Volapük Wikipedia has fallen below 40,000 articles, as a local admin continues to clean up the wiki.

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  • The newly created Nigerian Pidgin Wikipedia has had its on-wiki statistics initialized, resulting in 241 articles.
  • The maintenance script that initializes the on-wiki statistics for all Wikimedia wikis (reflected on each wiki's Special:Statistics page) is now set to run every day at 5:39am UTC, rather than only twice a month; one side effect is that newly created wikis will see their article counts reflect reality much sooner after their content has been imported.

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  • The Volapük Wikipedia has fallen below 50,000 articles, as the purge of bot-created articles continues.

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  • The Bavarian Wikipedia has fallen below 30,000 articles, as a local admin has started purging bot-created articles, which were only partially translated into Bavarian.
  • The Gun Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
  • The Javanese Wikipedia has reached 70,000 articles.

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  • The Volapük Wikipedia has fallen below 60,000 articles, as the purge of bot-created articles continues.

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  • The Volapük Wikipedia has fallen below 70,000 articles, as the purge of bot-created articles continues.

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  • The Volapük Wikipedia has fallen below 80,000 articles, as the purge of bot-created articles continues.

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  • The Volapük Wikipedia has fallen below 90,000 articles, as the purge of bot-created articles that started last month continues.

July 2022

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  • The Volapük Wikipedia has fallen below 100,000 articles, as a local admin has started purging old, outdated, bot-created articles.

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  • The Tulu Wikipedia has reached 100,000 page edits.
  • The Pa'O Wikipedia is open for editing after being created as a standalone wiki two days ago, with content imported from the test wiki at the Wikimedia Incubator.

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  • The Vietnamese Wikibooks has reached 20,000 book modules, as a user has been creating thousands of new book modules about plant species that largely duplicate content already in the Vietnamese Wikipedia.

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May 2022

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  • The newly created Tyap Wikipedia has had its statistics initialized, resulting in 401 articles.

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  • The Tyap Wikipedia is open for editing after being created as a standalone wiki earlier today, with content imported from the test wiki in the Wikimedia Incubator.

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April 2022

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  • The Hausa Wiktionary has reached 1,000 entries.
  • The Ukrainian Wikisource has dropped below 80,000 text units (down to around 79,775) after having its articles recounted.
  • The on-wiki statistics of the two newest Wikimedia wikis (created on March 23rd) have been initialized, resulting in the following article counts:

March 2022

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  • The Ladin Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles, as the creation of stubs about municipalities continues (see 20 January); such stubs now constitute approximately 95% of the wiki's articles.
  • The Thai Wikipedia has reached 10,000,000 page edits.

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  • The following two wikis are open for editing, after being created as standalone wikis earlier today; the on-wiki statistics of each should be initialized at the beginning of next month.

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February 2022

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  • The Ukrainian Wikipedia has reached 50 administrators (including one non-human abuse-filter account).

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January 2022

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  • The Crimean Tatar Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles, as a user has created hundreds of new stubs for Russian rural localities (selos) in the last few days.
  • The Ladin Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles, as the municipality-stub creation begun earlier this month (see 8 January) continues with Germany.

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  • The Ladin Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles, as a user has added over one thousand new stubs about Italian municipalities (comunes).

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