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The depth or editing depth of Wikipedia is one of several possible rough indicators of the encyclopedia's collaborative quality.

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 1272.9 ( = 20.21 × 62.98).

Among editions with at least 10,000 articles, the Ladin wikipedia has the least depth, at 0.002 ( = 1.28 × 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 7.13 12,963 151,475 27,790
Afrikaans Afrikaans af 37.42 118,755 2,697,714 397,650
Alemannic Alemannisch als 28.21 30,653 1,057,139 73,614
Amharic አማርኛ am 33.75 15,372 381,401 46,580
Aragonese Aragonés an 78.23 46,817 2,208,367 157,349
Arabic العربية ar 273.4 1,242,091 67,898,571 8,515,242
Moroccan Arabic داريجة ary 190.25 10,296 376,547 72,695
Egyptian Arabic مصرى arz 0.49 1,625,107 10,604,976 2,134,598
Assamese অসমীয়া as 163.56 13,750 434,832 96,658
Asturian Asturianu ast 10.41 136,680 4,283,196 241,359
Kotava Kotava avk 0.19 29,618 145,182 36,016
Azerbaijani Azərbaycanca az 48.6 199,432 7,785,501 578,265
South Azerbaijani تۆرکجه azb 5.1 243,720 1,564,961 577,992
Bashkir Башҡорт ba 24.64 63,743 1,277,737 183,711
Balinese Bali ban 3.58 25,623 197,524 50,032
Bavarian Boarisch bar 71.33 27,172 843,584 110,065
Samogitian Žemaitėška bat-smg 6.56 17,231 360,959 29,937
Central Bicolano Bikol bcl 14.8 17,718 278,194 45,185
Belarusian Беларуская be 23.29 247,048 4,842,014 700,543
Belarusian (Taraškievica) Беларуская (тарашкевіца) be-tarask 36.51 87,625 2,563,487 254,427
Bulgarian Български bg 28.66 300,706 12,354,403 677,747
Bengali বাংলা bn 296.61 158,764 7,650,124 1,275,036
Bishnupriya Manipuri বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী bpy 32.93 25,087 894,200 63,431
Breton Brezhoneg br 8.86 86,941 2,110,945 157,661
Bosnian Bosanski bs 84.32 93,869 3,644,708 367,620
Buginese Basa Ugi bug 0.73 15,845 202,905 20,121
Catalan Català ca 40.24 760,606 34,029,239 1,901,045
Chechen Нохчийн ce 8.43 601,390 10,441,819 1,190,965
Min Dong Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄ cdo 3.14 16,551 102,088 33,285
Cebuano Sinugboanong Binisaya ceb 2.18 6,116,918 35,050,750 11,229,239
Sorani کوردی ckb 29.34 72,103 1,332,714 236,681
Crimean Tatar Qırımtatarca crh 3.57 28,420 230,580 54,544
Czech Čeština cs 50.63 554,234 24,249,219 1,551,856
Chuvash Чăваш cv 7.81 56,577 835,660 115,315
Welsh Cymraeg cy 15.69 281,177 13,115,835 498,260
Danish Dansk da 57.52 302,439 11,844,964 953,102
German Deutsch de 93.8 2,947,197 247,459,467 8,116,594
Zazaki Zazaki diq 2.15 42,083 531,990 63,395
Greek Ελληνικά el 55.3 240,535 10,753,768 695,410
Emilian-Romagnol Emiliàn e rumagnòl eml 12.98 13,059 157,173 35,376
English English en 1272.87 6,890,508 1,244,416,303 61,574,553
Esperanto Esperanto eo 17.09 359,344 8,850,658 808,285
Spanish Español es 197.51 1,981,984 162,347,113 8,267,928
Estonian Eesti et 21.2 247,848 6,728,980 584,058
Basque Euskara eu 13.91 444,949 9,906,261 962,225
Persian فارسی fa 152.48 1,014,949 40,331,583 5,745,048
Finnish Suomi fi 38.21 581,132 22,617,030 1,508,969
Faroese Føroyskt fo 33.63 14,113 381,009 40,944
French Français fr 265.98 2,639,097 218,663,218 13,223,502
North Frisian Nordfriisk frr 12.13 19,732 266,263 49,310
West Frisian Frysk fy 29.31 54,392 1,166,250 165,222
Irish Gaeilge ga 6.57 60,760 1,234,271 106,493
Scottish Gaelic Gàidhlig gd 18.78 15,984 577,069 32,398
Galician Galego gl 27.59 214,468 6,842,635 527,155
Gorontalo Hulontalo gor 0.78 14,779 57,333 23,063
Gujarati ગુજરાતી gu 71.66 30,438 870,977 129,975
Hausa Hausa / هَوُسَ ha 2.07 50,448 531,277 78,330
Fiji Hindi Fiji Hindi hif 73.98 11,242 314,166 49,703
Hebrew עברית he 270.33 363,112 39,660,261 1,539,274
Hindi हिन्दी hi 242.62 163,428 6,257,938 1,342,474
Croatian Hrvatski hr 18.79 222,545 7,016,488 473,044
Upper Sorbian Hornjoserbsce hsb 26.07 13,949 383,730 35,660
Haitian Krèyol ayisyen ht 0.73 69,746 849,717 89,093
Hungarian Magyar hu 60.29 548,166 27,435,347 1,564,630
Armenian Հայերեն hy 63.33 313,076 10,112,683 1,155,068
Interlingua Interlingua ia 3.94 29,719 670,159 45,011
Indonesian Bahasa Indonesia id 138.71 706,089 26,351,351 3,909,002
Ilokano Ilokano ilo 72.92 15,388 401,666 70,401
Ido Ido io 2.3 50,461 1,054,372 70,224
Icelandic Íslenska is 31.28 59,050 1,875,957 153,534
Italian Italiano it 189.49 1,884,573 141,099,316 8,100,386
Japanese 日本語 ja 90.92 1,432,107 101,868,452 4,207,225
Javanese Basa Jawa jv 20.16 74,106 1,694,855 183,638
Georgian ქართული ka 30.77 175,533 4,696,048 490,097
Kazakh Қазақша kk 15.17 237,596 3,383,758 640,070
Kannada ಕನ್ನಡ kn 96.6 32,809 1,241,753 141,761
Korean 한국어 ko 165.4 686,752 37,867,616 3,290,162
Kurdish Kurdî ku 29.63 84,013 1,844,478 253,580
Kirghiz Кыргызча ky 0.72 78,399 486,863 109,895
Latin Latina la 14.67 139,484 3,846,793 284,886
Luxembourgish Lëtzebuergesch lb 25.48 63,938 2,544,402 139,518
Limburgish Limburgs li 85.86 15,000 470,772 67,713
Ligurian Lìgure lij 18.84 11,296 251,461 27,513
Ladin Ladin lld 0.002 180,767 240,400 187,661
Lombard Lumbaart lmo 8.06 74,355 1,286,312 145,294
Lithuanian Lietuvių lt 29.97 219,354 7,384,311 545,806
Latvian Latviešu lv 72.51 130,116 4,144,163 524,136
Maithili मैथिली mai 26.12 14,118 263,500 43,400
Banyumasan Basa Banyumasan map-bms 10.15 13,927 220,477 30,403
Malagasy Malagasy mg 10.59 98,138 1,087,617 251,843
Meadow Mari Олык Марий (Olyk Marij) mhr 18.56 11,361 198,806 30,544
Minangkabau Bahaso Minangkabau min 7.662 227,798 3,156,018 471,522
Macedonian Македонски mk 76.85 146,641 5,267,655 569,227
Malayalam മലയാളം ml 201.47 85,991 4,027,247 527,899
Mongolian Монгол mn 87.24 24,319 791,279 108,384
Meitei ꯃꯤꯇꯩꯂꯣꯟ mni 1.38 10,435 57,775 17,097
Marathi मराठी mr 38.92 98,081 2,476,575 317,008
Hill Mari Кырык Мары (Kyryk Mary) mrj 4.69 10,433 106,197 20,316
Malay Bahasa Melayu ms 19.2 390,891 6,316,072 1,108,366
Burmese language မြန်မာဘာသာ my 5.57 108,378 847,423 246,197
Mazandarani مَزِروني mzn 1.94 45,125 248,695 81,015
Neapolitan Nnapulitano nap 10.57 14,885 668,631 24,068
Low Saxon Plattdüütsch nds 6.85 85,057 1,027,232 177,609
Nepali नेपाली ne 71.88 31,339 1,247,545 110,365
Newari नेवारी new 8.69 72,454 869,024 165,745
Dutch Nederlands nl 19.23 2,168,682 68,036,805 4,656,943
Norwegian (Nynorsk) Nynorsk nn 14.92 171,089 3,563,309 389,616
Norwegian (Bokmål) Norsk (Bokmål) no 47.89 636,178 24,662,884 1,837,987
Navajo Diné bizaad nv 3.45 22,645 307,649 37,293
Occitan Occitan oc 10.15 90,048 2,437,817 164,600
Oriya ଓଡ଼ିଆ or 76.42 18,561 541,801 81,489
Ossetian Иронау os 56.78 19,200 566,642 70,082
Punjabi ਪੰਜਾਬੀ pa 21.77 54,981 768,432 178,669
Polish Polski pl 34.42 1,630,038 74,676,801 3,782,281
Piedmontese Piemontèis pms 2.22 69,064 872,913 104,664
Western Panjabi شاہ مکھی پنجابی pnb 3.45 73,366 671,323 134,290
Pashto پښتو ps 31.01 19,714 337,099 69,598
Portuguese Português pt 198.38 1,134,340 68,564,112 5,768,657
Quechua Runa Simi qu 22.97 24,061 673,970 57,843
Romanian Română ro 136.31 483,518 16,452,241 2,821,209
Russian Русский ru 158.93 2,002,419 140,254,175 8,050,384
Sanskrit संस्कृतम् sa 179.96 12,213 488,669 77,429
Sakha Саха тыла sah 32.6 17,119 409,803 51,907
Sicilian Sicilianu scn 16.91 26,297 741,219 56,027
Scots Scots sco 58.45 34,493 891,718 138,371
Sindhi سنڌي، سندھی ، सिन्ध sd 28.73 18,152 291,457 63,601
Serbo-Croatian Srpskohrvatski / Српскохрватски sh 748.61 459,980 42,202,811 4,627,350
Shan လိၵ်ႈတႆး shn 3.71 13,681 64,965 32,240
Sinhalese සිංහල si 178.22 21,348 712,040 153,803
Simple English Simple English simple 60.15 257,835 9,780,122 845,948
Slovak Slovenčina sk 23.29 250,505 7,895,851 577,447
Slovenian Slovenščina sl 31.63 186,882 6,296,276 475,829
Albanian Shqip sq 37.01 100,035 2,697,194 304,531
Serbian Српски sr 170.49 695,116 28,459,768 4,168,804
Sundanese Basa Sunda su 2.44 61,808 671,950 98,874
Swedish Svenska sv 17.85 2,595,506 55,915,130 6,266,490
Swahili Kiswahili sw 9.82 83,742 1,351,091 179,338
Silesian Ślůnsko szl 0.38 58,321 373,453 74,311
Tamil தமிழ் ta 42.25 168,069 4,094,710 578,760
Telugu తెలుగు te 81.37 100,219 4,284,333 363,569
Tajik Тоҷикӣ tg 10.48 113,931 1,410,649 277,487
Thai ไทย th 337.73 167,139 11,777,164 1,110,223
Tagalog Tagalog tl 147.66 47,544 2,125,364 242,822
Turkish Türkçe tr 174.18 622,398 33,870,944 3,112,470
Tatar Татарча tt 2.18 502,041 4,257,361 829,027
Ukrainian Українська uk 59.01 1,347,473 43,534,699 4,775,653
Urdu اردو ur 102.39 212,434 6,376,795 1,108,788
Uzbek O‘zbek uz 33.83 299,948 5,248,588 1,097,887
Venetian Vèneto vec 9.27 69,335 1,176,566 142,907
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt vi 726.77 1,295,078 71,781,653 19,485,651
Volapük Volapük vo 202.09 38,017 3,303,666 155,127
Walloon Walon wa 25.99 12,436 407,626 29,490
Waray-Waray Winaray war 4.25 1,266,601 7,603,353 2,870,174
Wu 吴语 wuu 0.73 44,192 324,040 60,544
Mingrelian მარგალური (Margaluri) xmf 4.3 21,517 230,505 40,133
Yiddish ייִדיש yi 46.19 15,474 594,065 44,139
Yoruba Yorùbá yo 5 34,371 586,803 58,663
Chinese 中文 zh 209.76 1,445,046 84,142,806 7,828,848
Classical Chinese 古文 / 文言文 zh-classical 191.17 13,482 409,654 110,136
Min Nan Bân-lâm-gú zh-min-nan 6.49 433,356 3,215,509 1,070,580
Cantonese 粵語 zh-yue 10.68 141,971 2,187,051 319,176
Zulu isiZulu zu 6.4 11,531 110,156 25,592
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 1273 94 266 34 91 189 19 198 198 159 18 210 48 38 40 59 174 136 202 51 60 17 23 58 139 270 273 165 30 170
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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