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The depth or editing depth of Wikipedia is one of several possible rough indicators of the encyclopedia's collaborative quality, showing how frequently its articles are updated.

It does not refer to academic quality, which cannot be computed, but to Wikipedian quality, i.e. the depth of collaborativeness—a descriptor that is highly relevant for a Wikipedia.

Definition

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The formula assumes that a relatively high number of page edits and the presence of support pages means articles have been updated. And the latter support pages are assumed to be a more important factor.

In the list of Wikipedias, depth is currently defined as:

 

The depth can be simplified to the equivalent formula below:

 

Non-Articles are user pages, redirects, images, "project" pages, categories, templates, and all talk pages. Total is simply Non-Articles + Articles.

The English Wikipedia has the most depth, at 1258.2 ( = 20.13 × 62.49).

Among editions with at least 10,000 articles, the Ladin wikipedia has the least depth, at 0.002 ( = 1.27 × 0.001).

Background

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The measurement of depth was introduced after some limitations of the classic measurement of article count were realized. This insight is similar to the various suggestions to redefine the ordering of Wikipedias that appear on the international front page www.wikipedia.org. See Top Ten Wikipedias and Talk:Www.wikipedia.org portal.

Still in early February 2006 the list of Wikipedias only listed the article count. But on February 10, 2006, this changed into a table format that also listed the total edit count, number of users and admins.

The depth column first appeared on November 29, 2006. The initial definition was edits/articles, giving the English Wikipedia a value of 62. This definition changed already the next day to (Edits/Articles) × (Non-Articles/Articles), giving the English Wikipedia a value of 209. The next definition change occurred on October 9, 2007, when the Stub-ratio factor was appended. The stub ratio is (1-(Articles/Total)).[1] The new value for the English Wikipedia was 288. The formula changed again on October 17, October 28, and finally on April 11, 2008.

The discussion of the introduction of the depth parameter is found in Talk:List of Wikipedias/Archive 4. Early on, there were discussions of whether depth implies quality. The changes in October 2007 were discussed in Talk:List of Wikipedias/Archive 5#Depth 2.0.

10,000+ articles

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The table shows the list of Wikipedias with over 10,000 articles. It can be sorted by Depth.
Data on this page is automatically updated every day (Purge).

N.B.: Default sorting is by language code, but it is possible to sort the table by any column.

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Language Language (local) Wiki Depth Articles Edits Total Pages
Acehnese Acehnese ace 7.08 12,962 150,692 27,767
Afrikaans Afrikaans af 37.75 117,588 2,676,440 395,209
Alemannic Alemannisch als 28.36 30,509 1,054,236 73,370
Amharic አማርኛ am 33.6 15,374 380,701 46,531
Aragonese Aragonés an 75.3 46,275 2,141,795 153,925
Arabic العربية ar 270.8 1,235,871 67,114,956 8,453,722
Moroccan Arabic داريجة ary 184.84 10,100 363,191 70,673
Egyptian Arabic مصرى arz 0.46 1,623,988 10,194,992 2,127,199
Assamese অসমীয়া as 163.83 13,452 424,026 94,911
Asturian Asturianu ast 10.22 136,316 4,202,724 240,550
Kotava Kotava avk 0.19 29,205 144,587 35,575
Azerbaijani Azərbaycanca az 45.7 200,486 7,667,871 570,192
South Azerbaijani تۆرکجه azb 5.1 243,555 1,560,644 577,511
Bashkir Башҡорт ba 24.5 63,713 1,274,887 183,291
Balinese Bali ban 3.68 24,229 187,198 47,707
Bavarian Boarisch bar 71.31 27,168 842,462 110,108
Samogitian Žemaitėška bat-smg 6.55 17,228 360,773 29,930
Central Bicolano Bikol bcl 15.28 17,379 275,559 44,755
Belarusian Беларуская be 23.59 243,618 4,783,819 694,380
Belarusian (Taraškievica) Беларуская (тарашкевіца) be-tarask 35.84 86,904 2,514,304 251,440
Bulgarian Български bg 28.53 299,299 12,259,890 674,176
Bengali বাংলা bn 298.95 154,470 7,442,426 1,248,280
Bishnupriya Manipuri বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী bpy 32.85 25,087 893,925 63,373
Breton Brezhoneg br 9.02 86,499 2,102,508 157,612
Bosnian Bosanski bs 86.38 93,609 3,616,981 373,003
Buginese Basa Ugi bug 0.74 15,841 202,703 20,123
Catalan Català ca 40.05 754,552 33,602,479 1,885,828
Chechen Нохчийн ce 8.37 601,358 10,377,324 1,190,814
Min Dong Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄ cdo 3.1 16,529 101,487 33,177
Cebuano Sinugboanong Binisaya ceb 2.18 6,117,212 35,046,488 11,228,990
Sorani کوردی ckb 48.47 56,004 1,219,973 222,521
Crimean Tatar Qırımtatarca crh 3.37 28,207 225,787 53,404
Czech Čeština cs 50.8 548,832 24,001,128 1,539,586
Chuvash Чăваш cv 7.82 56,179 830,874 114,503
Welsh Cymraeg cy 14.13 280,683 12,856,452 485,741
Danish Dansk da 57.51 300,766 11,774,526 947,897
German Deutsch de 93.63 2,922,261 244,694,572 8,051,486
Zazaki Zazaki diq 2.16 41,886 530,169 63,110
Greek Ελληνικά el 56.09 236,325 10,614,466 686,411
Emilian-Romagnol Emiliàn e rumagnòl eml 12.95 13,060 156,917 35,376
English English en 1258.21 6,843,059 1,226,920,606 60,939,336
Esperanto Esperanto eo 17.15 355,271 8,768,834 799,461
Spanish Español es 197.97 1,963,166 160,564,053 8,208,625
Estonian Eesti et 21.23 245,840 6,668,180 579,836
Basque Euskara eu 14.33 434,474 9,814,674 944,689
Persian فارسی fa 151.82 1,006,245 39,724,762 5,704,619
Finnish Suomi fi 38.42 575,544 22,425,825 1,497,416
Faroese Føroyskt fo 33.44 14,113 379,943 40,883
French Français fr 263.83 2,620,493 215,902,163 13,108,367
North Frisian Nordfriisk frr 12.47 19,041 261,344 47,800
West Frisian Frysk fy 29.56 53,937 1,155,677 164,604
Irish Gaeilge ga 6.42 60,382 1,221,633 105,313
Scottish Gaelic Gàidhlig gd 18.62 15,961 576,214 32,258
Galician Galego gl 27.79 211,754 6,767,099 521,680
Gorontalo Hulontalo gor 0.75 14,767 56,375 22,949
Gujarati ગુજરાતી gu 70.39 30,408 866,152 128,785
Hausa Hausa / هَوُسَ ha 1.89 47,723 456,905 74,135
Fiji Hindi Fiji Hindi hif 73.46 11,101 311,407 48,746
Hebrew עברית he 269.98 356,844 38,863,153 1,514,204
Hindi हिन्दी hi 238.51 162,143 6,134,265 1,326,697
Croatian Hrvatski hr 18.81 221,078 6,965,621 470,190
Upper Sorbian Hornjoserbsce hsb 26.07 13,937 383,306 35,632
Haitian Krèyol ayisyen ht 0.72 69,697 847,896 88,816
Hungarian Magyar hu 60.77 543,121 27,190,441 1,555,927
Armenian Հայերեն hy 63.02 310,958 10,009,798 1,146,387
Interlingua Interlingua ia 3.95 29,635 668,638 44,898
Indonesian Bahasa Indonesia id 138.63 697,043 25,943,182 3,864,625
Ilokano Ilokano ilo 72.86 15,383 401,202 70,376
Ido Ido io 2.42 48,662 1,049,219 67,929
Icelandic Íslenska is 31.33 58,622 1,863,882 152,459
Italian Italiano it 188.68 1,870,325 139,660,119 8,031,122
Japanese 日本語 ja 90.67 1,420,541 100,691,264 4,174,838
Javanese Basa Jawa jv 20.54 73,736 1,685,754 184,188
Georgian ქართული ka 31.36 173,273 4,662,882 486,793
Kazakh Қазақша kk 15 236,519 3,347,133 635,790
Kannada ಕನ್ನಡ kn 97.53 32,331 1,227,420 140,269
Korean 한국어 ko 167.69 674,226 37,364,091 3,248,713
Kurdish Kurdî ku 34.01 76,160 1,766,083 239,850
Kirghiz Кыргызча ky 0.68 78,876 477,121 110,050
Latin Latina la 14.56 139,093 3,830,022 283,512
Luxembourgish Lëtzebuergesch lb 25.34 63,466 2,521,545 138,273
Limburgish Limburgs li 84.65 14,957 464,369 67,372
Ligurian Lìgure lij 18.57 11,255 247,760 27,380
Ladin Ladin lld 0.002 180,759 238,122 187,602
Lombard Lumbaart lmo 8.6 74,107 1,274,048 148,229
Lithuanian Lietuvių lt 29.45 216,981 7,299,249 536,057
Latvian Latviešu lv 72.53 128,304 4,073,744 517,916
Maithili मैथिली mai 25.59 14,108 262,146 43,021
Banyumasan Basa Banyumasan map-bms 10.12 13,933 220,281 30,398
Malagasy Malagasy mg 10.59 97,451 1,077,856 250,264
Meadow Mari Олык Марий (Olyk Marij) mhr 17.97 11,396 197,730 30,312
Minangkabau Bahaso Minangkabau min 7.665 227,640 3,153,325 471,281
Macedonian Македонски mk 77.1 145,129 5,208,387 564,732
Malayalam മലയാളം ml 200.09 85,717 4,003,423 524,657
Mongolian Монгол mn 89.51 23,806 782,513 107,152
Meitei ꯃꯤꯇꯩꯂꯣꯟ mni 1.36 10,427 57,364 17,066
Marathi मराठी mr 38.67 97,004 2,431,374 313,676
Hill Mari Кырык Мары (Kyryk Mary) mrj 4.54 10,432 105,897 20,122
Malay Bahasa Melayu ms 20.18 378,743 6,222,359 1,091,234
Burmese language မြန်မာဘာသာ my 5.41 107,916 836,658 243,191
Mazandarani مَزِروني mzn 2.69 29,349 211,780 53,527
Neapolitan Nnapulitano nap 10.54 14,885 668,284 24,051
Low Saxon Plattdüütsch nds 6.63 84,984 1,018,547 175,909
Nepali नेपाली ne 69.29 31,457 1,227,975 109,729
Newari नेवारी new 8.61 72,341 867,309 164,893
Dutch Nederlands nl 19.14 2,161,302 67,581,439 4,638,841
Norwegian (Nynorsk) Nynorsk nn 14.99 169,934 3,548,291 387,348
Norwegian (Bokmål) Norsk (Bokmål) no 47.65 632,338 24,489,843 1,823,395
Navajo Diné bizaad nv 3.45 22,645 307,536 37,280
Occitan Occitan oc 10.14 89,740 2,429,411 163,975
Oriya ଓଡ଼ିଆ or 77.09 18,293 536,661 80,496
Ossetian Иронау os 58.66 18,574 560,795 68,174
Punjabi ਪੰਜਾਬੀ pa 21.52 54,521 758,591 176,542
Polish Polski pl 33.91 1,620,652 73,923,173 3,744,725
Piedmontese Piemontèis pms 2.24 68,872 871,742 104,563
Western Panjabi شاہ مکھی پنجابی pnb 3.38 72,661 663,898 132,261
Pashto پښتو ps 30.41 19,247 325,705 67,602
Portuguese Português pt 197.16 1,127,722 68,013,794 5,719,778
Quechua Runa Simi qu 22.9 24,042 672,451 57,759
Romanian Română ro 153.36 454,326 16,298,082 2,776,525
Russian Русский ru 157.63 1,986,603 138,332,190 7,975,618
Sanskrit संस्कृतम् sa 176.67 12,193 486,563 76,423
Sakha Саха тыла sah 30.23 17,648 408,316 52,415
Sicilian Sicilianu scn 16.79 26,285 739,160 55,903
Scots Scots sco 57.87 34,607 888,792 138,550
Sindhi سنڌي، سندھی ، सिन्ध sd 26.73 17,666 274,258 60,605
Serbo-Croatian Srpskohrvatski / Српскохрватски sh 748.85 459,795 41,887,678 4,653,683
Shan လိၵ်ႈတႆး shn 3.67 13,622 64,219 32,045
Sinhalese සිංහල si 163.05 20,906 683,626 143,001
Simple English Simple English simple 59.59 253,475 9,597,523 828,282
Slovak Slovenčina sk 23.24 249,191 7,850,514 574,020
Slovenian Slovenščina sl 31.37 185,766 6,225,879 472,350
Albanian Shqip sq 36.95 98,249 2,668,556 297,719
Serbian Српски sr 167.43 690,938 27,853,145 4,136,146
Sundanese Basa Sunda su 2.39 61,741 667,358 98,401
Swedish Svenska sv 17.56 2,589,924 54,993,364 6,247,715
Swahili Kiswahili sw 10.11 81,693 1,338,435 175,861
Silesian Ślůnsko szl 0.38 58,109 370,019 74,028
Tamil தமிழ் ta 40.8 166,193 4,023,490 563,470
Telugu తెలుగు te 85.88 96,731 4,205,967 358,415
Tajik Тоҷикӣ tg 10.47 113,306 1,403,700 275,806
Thai ไทย th 334.42 165,180 11,577,791 1,093,498
Tagalog Tagalog tl 146.97 47,420 2,113,917 241,883
Turkish Türkçe tr 174.81 612,977 33,340,751 3,073,789
Tatar Татарча tt 1.72 501,622 4,158,646 788,325
Ukrainian Українська uk 58.32 1,331,618 42,833,175 4,700,426
Urdu اردو ur 105.13 207,447 6,259,535 1,098,471
Uzbek O‘zbek uz 26.79 299,889 4,436,047 1,057,843
Venetian Vèneto vec 9.08 69,289 1,171,292 142,005
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt vi 724.13 1,293,946 71,428,766 19,475,612
Volapük Volapük vo 211.3 37,174 3,300,519 153,834
Walloon Walon wa 25.82 12,377 405,760 29,268
Waray-Waray Winaray war 4.25 1,266,543 7,601,962 2,871,331
Wu 吴语 wuu 0.7 43,843 318,612 59,739
Mingrelian მარგალური (Margaluri) xmf 4.21 21,039 224,409 39,044
Yiddish ייִדיש yi 46.33 15,458 593,273 44,167
Yoruba Yorùbá yo 5 34,142 582,813 58,281
Chinese 中文 zh 209.51 1,427,684 82,904,871 7,743,154
Classical Chinese 古文 / 文言文 zh-classical 187.88 13,459 406,749 108,928
Min Nan Bân-lâm-gú zh-min-nan 6.49 433,110 3,209,718 1,069,898
Cantonese 粵語 zh-yue 10.34 141,865 2,147,961 317,212
Zulu isiZulu zu 6.37 11,378 107,987 25,273
Language Language (local) Wiki Depth Articles Edits Total Pages


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Trend of article depth.

The table shows how the depth of the largest 30 languages[2] of Wikipedia has developed over time.

Date en de fr pl ja it nl pt es ru sv zh no fi ca uk tr ro vo cs hu eo sk da id he ar ko lt sr
Today 1258 94 264 34 91 189 19 197 198 158 18 210 48 38 40 58 175 153 211 51 61 17 23 58 139 270 271 168 29 167
1 July 2022 1130 93 253 33 87 179 18 182 204 154 16 206 46 39 39 55 166 146 15 47 59 16 22 60 116 260 237 154 28 157
1 Jan 2022 1094 92 246 32 86 176 17 179 207 138 14 205 46 39 37 54 175 145 14 47 59 16 21 64 103 257 231 152 27 156
1 July 2021 1072 93 242 32 85 172 17 176 210 137 12 202 46 40 36 53 199 122 14 46 59 16 21 64 103 258 227 153 26 155
1 Jan 2021 1041 94 239 31 84 168 16 175 210 136 9 201 42 40 34 49 203 120 14 45 59 16 21 63 108 259 219 151 24 157
1 July 2020 1009 94 236 30 84 169 16 172 208 136 7 198 42 40 32 44 222 118 14 47 59 17 20 64 109 259 214 152 23 157
1 Jan 2020 985 94 234 30 83 164 16 171 204 137 7 195 41 41 31 39 205 117 14 47 59 17 20 64 109 261 175 149 23 155
1 July 2019 964 94 229 30 82 160 15 166 199 135 7 188 42 42 30 38 200 114 14 46 58 17 19 64 110 260 182 150 23 151
1 Jan 2019 937 95 225 29 81 157 15 154 196 132 6 181 40 42 30 37 199 112 14 45 58 17 19 67 118 254 238 146 22 144
1 July 2018 907 94 224 28 80 155 14 150 205 134 6 175 39 42 30 38 205 110 14 42 58 17 19 67 117 247 225 110 23 141
1 Jan 2018 1011 97 222 27 80 132 14 148 204 149 6 175 38 45 31 39 221 103 15 42 59 17 19 66 125 254 219 115 23 133
1 July 2017 980 98 217 25 78 125 13 142 196 144 5 169 36 45 31 40 222 86 15 41 58 17 19 68 123 261 188 115 23 90
1 Jan 2017 953 100 213 24 77 122 13 138 191 140 5 161 36 45 31 39 229 85 15 40 58 17 19 66 107 256 218 112 22 71
1 July 2016 933 102 208 22 75 120 12 136 187 136 6 165 37 45 31 38 226 82 15 40 58 17 18 66 104 253 233 105 21 66
1 Jan 2016 910 98 205 21 72 115 11 133 198 131 9 163 35 46 31 37 240 82 15 41 59 17 18 68 84 251 223 90 21 69
1 July 2015 888 97 205 21 71 109 11 130 190 125 12 147 34 46 31 36 229 77 15 42 76 17 18 70 76 253 214 87 31 66
1 Jan 2015 887 89 193 20 69 105 9 123 176 115 11 131 32 44 31 37 210 97 15 39 97 18 19 70 65 257 214 87 31 66
1 July 2014 868 90 181 18 68 101 9 121 174 113 11 114 26 45 30 27 211 94 16 39 99 18 18 69 60 256 237 80 31 63
1 Jan 2014 824 90 172 18 66 98 10 117 172 109 11 108 28 45 27 38 214 90 15 39 100 18 18 67 56 253 248 82 31 57
1 July 2013 769 89 164 19 64 95 9 112 170 106 15 100 28 45 26 38 212 88 15 39 100 18 18 66 112 249 235 82 18 64
1 Jan 2013 731 89 165 17 61 91 18 103 175 104 38 108 28 44 24 38 214 81 15 38 99 18 15 62 88 242 243 77 17 57
1 July 2012 688 88 157 16 58 89 19 96 166 99 44 148 28 44 22 36 207 101 13 38 98 17 15 58 89 236 241 76 16 52
1 Jan 2012 648 89 151 14 56 85 18 88 158 92 50 90 29 44 20 35 207 97 12 37 92 16 24 39 72 231 230 74 17 51
1 July 2011 613 89 145 13 54 81 30 82 163 91 48 83 27 43 18 34 192 93 12 37 90 16 22 36 63 227 225 71 17 47
1 Jan 2011 572 87 140 10 51 77 29 71 179 90 46 80 25 41 17 33 185 86 11 34 86 16 20 35 61 220 208 62 17 40
1 July 2010 522 88 139 11 49 75 30 77 189 91 35 68 24 39 18 31 177 73 10 32 81 15 19 34 61 208 197 51 19 47
1 Jan 2010 478 86 128 10 46 71 27 74 141 87 31 63 23 37 17 25 159 54 9 33 71 14 16 31 42 205 167 43 19 46
1 July 2009 440 84 121 10 43 66 25 71 116 81 28 63 22 35 17 26 132 36 8 32 70 13 14 28 35 184 142 39 17 56
1 Jan 2009 413 81 115 9 41 57 23 66 94 74 24 71 20 32 17 15 95 30 8 28 64 13 10 26 30 177 117 36 15 52
1 July 2008 368 77 101 8 38 47 21 58 69 63 19 56 20 30 15 10 66 25 8 26 51 12 8 24 24 159 108 34 14 46
1 Jan 2008 302 70 79 9 33 43 20 49 51 56 15 59 18 27 14 12 43 17 3 24 39 11 7 21 20 132 107 27 12 35
1 July 2007 320 100 59 15 36 59 23 31 39 32
1 Jan 2007 224 87 45 12 32 37 19 25 34 24

See also

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More lists of Wikipedias by various criteria :  [ edit ]

Notes

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  1. ↑ List of Wikipedias
  2. ↑ At November 2008.
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