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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 edit

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 1248.6 ( = 20.09 × 62.15).

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

Background edit

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 edit

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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No.
Language Language (local) Wiki Depth Articles Edits Total Pages
Acehnese Acehnese ace 7.07 12,939 150,387 27,705
Afrikaans Afrikaans af 38.62 116,019 2,663,118 393,003
Alemannic Alemannisch als 28.46 30,367 1,049,608 73,132
Amharic አማርኛ am 33.84 15,308 379,825 46,447
Aragonese Aragonés an 73.6 45,964 2,126,317 151,076
Arabic العربية ar 269.29 1,231,892 66,684,080 8,411,834
Moroccan Arabic داريجة ary 179.29 10,030 356,913 69,141
Egyptian Arabic مصرى arz 0.45 1,623,203 10,062,643 2,120,780
Assamese অসমীয়া as 162.93 13,365 420,100 94,109
Asturian Asturianu ast 10.32 135,131 4,181,448 238,923
Kotava Kotava avk 0.19 29,157 144,308 35,514
Azerbaijani Azərbaycanca az 44.9 199,784 7,588,830 564,839
South Azerbaijani تۆرکجه azb 5.1 243,503 1,558,996 577,369
Bashkir Башҡорт ba 24.35 63,599 1,271,607 182,504
Balinese Bali ban 3.77 23,463 181,849 46,486
Bavarian Boarisch bar 71.23 27,165 841,867 110,058
Samogitian Žemaitėška bat-smg 6.55 17,225 360,692 29,921
Central Bicolano Bikol bcl 15.66 17,140 274,095 44,456
Belarusian Беларуская be 23.48 242,066 4,712,899 691,236
Belarusian (Taraškievica) Беларуская (тарашкевіца) be-tarask 35.61 86,437 2,501,583 249,245
Bulgarian Български bg 28.35 298,224 12,198,397 670,510
Bengali বাংলা bn 302.85 152,155 7,350,103 1,239,528
Bishnupriya Manipuri বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী bpy 32.85 25,087 893,831 63,372
Breton Brezhoneg br 9.3 86,270 2,090,067 158,802
Bosnian Bosanski bs 85.93 93,429 3,591,060 372,293
Buginese Basa Ugi bug 0.73 15,838 202,523 20,101
Catalan Català ca 40.01 750,808 33,400,307 1,876,470
Chechen Нохчийн ce 8.35 601,332 10,357,527 1,190,651
Min Dong Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄ cdo 3.11 16,510 101,405 33,153
Cebuano Sinugboanong Binisaya ceb 2.18 6,118,678 35,037,774 11,228,674
Sorani کوردی ckb 49.31 55,118 1,208,778 220,384
Crimean Tatar Qırımtatarca crh 2.99 28,032 217,581 51,666
Czech Čeština cs 50.84 545,689 23,846,150 1,531,862
Chuvash Чăваш cv 8.95 52,840 820,909 110,940
Welsh Cymraeg cy 13.33 280,434 12,558,623 480,731
Danish Dansk da 57.57 299,508 11,726,691 944,455
German Deutsch de 93.55 2,906,301 242,998,916 8,009,663
Zazaki Zazaki diq 2.15 41,825 527,941 63,007
Greek Ελληνικά el 56.1 234,862 10,532,453 682,747
Emilian-Romagnol Emiliàn e rumagnòl eml 12.95 13,053 156,777 35,364
English English en 1248.64 6,819,310 1,217,132,910 60,577,856
Esperanto Esperanto eo 17.08 353,002 8,700,955 793,620
Spanish Español es 198.06 1,950,212 159,397,720 8,160,258
Estonian Eesti et 21.2 244,939 6,635,741 577,718
Basque Euskara eu 14.31 431,686 9,762,259 937,743
Persian فارسی fa 151.22 1,001,136 39,355,155 5,676,839
Finnish Suomi fi 38.54 572,275 22,308,168 1,490,695
Faroese Føroyskt fo 33.61 14,071 379,394 40,831
French Français fr 262.72 2,609,117 214,297,259 13,042,034
North Frisian Nordfriisk frr 12.44 18,953 260,049 47,531
West Frisian Frysk fy 29.79 53,538 1,151,309 163,743
Irish Gaeilge ga 6.3 60,202 1,212,432 104,597
Scottish Gaelic Gàidhlig gd 18.61 15,959 575,606 32,254
Galician Galego gl 29.11 206,521 6,715,819 515,109
Gorontalo Hulontalo gor 0.75 14,766 56,158 22,926
Gujarati ગુજરાતી gu 69.72 30,394 863,932 128,131
Hausa Hausa / هَوُسَ ha 2.1 44,915 416,786 71,973
Fiji Hindi Fiji Hindi hif 73.5 11,006 310,045 48,215
Hebrew עברית he 269.33 353,851 38,498,240 1,500,191
Hindi हिन्दी hi 237 161,511 6,098,628 1,316,954
Croatian Hrvatski hr 18.69 220,215 6,909,689 467,969
Upper Sorbian Hornjoserbsce hsb 26.06 13,934 383,100 35,624
Haitian Krèyol ayisyen ht 0.68 69,634 845,639 88,107
Hungarian Magyar hu 60.49 541,564 27,040,255 1,549,962
Armenian Հայերեն hy 63.11 308,284 9,918,445 1,137,717
Interlingua Interlingua ia 3.94 29,576 667,641 44,790
Indonesian Bahasa Indonesia id 138.05 692,123 25,630,795 3,839,531
Ilokano Ilokano ilo 72.79 15,378 400,648 70,358
Ido Ido io 2.5 47,847 1,046,019 67,012
Icelandic Íslenska is 31.22 58,478 1,856,458 151,971
Italian Italiano it 188.05 1,861,869 138,802,008 7,986,121
Japanese 日本語 ja 90.53 1,414,047 100,016,513 4,156,991
Javanese Basa Jawa jv 20.53 73,436 1,672,583 183,703
Georgian ქართული ka 31.51 172,159 4,638,594 484,457
Kazakh Қазақша kk 14.75 236,654 3,321,327 633,604
Kannada ಕನ್ನಡ kn 100.14 31,896 1,219,833 140,043
Korean 한국어 ko 166.82 667,277 36,781,875 3,215,535
Kurdish Kurdî ku 30.24 75,498 1,678,155 228,797
Kirghiz Кыргызча ky 0.66 79,209 473,182 110,246
Latin Latina la 14.49 138,924 3,820,415 282,817
Luxembourgish Lëtzebuergesch lb 25.26 63,342 2,511,256 137,959
Limburgish Limburgs li 85.27 14,895 463,807 67,280
Ligurian Lìgure lij 18.28 11,245 246,026 27,245
Ladin Ladin lld 0.002 180,713 237,770 187,522
Lombard Lumbaart lmo 8.57 73,961 1,270,837 147,803
Lithuanian Lietuvių lt 29.27 216,412 7,251,854 534,175
Latvian Latviešu lv 72.92 127,071 4,043,055 513,959
Maithili मैथिली mai 25.24 14,103 261,219 42,777
Banyumasan Basa Banyumasan map-bms 10.13 13,919 220,104 30,374
Malagasy Malagasy mg 10.6 97,166 1,074,443 249,650
Meadow Mari Олык Марий (Olyk Marij) mhr 17.66 11,382 196,628 30,096
Minangkabau Bahaso Minangkabau min 7.654 227,537 3,152,003 470,843
Macedonian Македонски mk 77.94 143,792 5,185,883 561,498
Malayalam മലയാളം ml 199.05 85,622 3,991,349 522,833
Mongolian Монгол mn 90.97 23,463 775,002 106,367
Meitei ꯃꯤꯇꯩꯂꯣꯟ mni 1.31 10,422 55,158 17,069
Marathi मराठी mr 38.89 96,185 2,407,727 312,184
Hill Mari Кырык Мары (Kyryk Mary) mrj 4.45 10,432 105,742 20,005
Malay Bahasa Melayu ms 20.68 372,827 6,170,535 1,083,100
Burmese language မြန်မာဘာသာ my 5.32 107,633 829,381 241,582
Mazandarani مَزِروني mzn 6.01 19,318 192,983 41,198
Neapolitan Nnapulitano nap 10.55 14,861 668,013 24,014
Low Saxon Plattdüütsch nds 6.37 84,691 1,013,212 173,050
Nepali नेपाली ne 61.17 32,965 1,208,464 111,162
Newari नेवारी new 8.59 72,344 866,936 164,820
Dutch Nederlands nl 19.06 2,157,472 67,306,194 4,627,109
Norwegian (Nynorsk) Nynorsk nn 15.02 169,419 3,537,804 386,382
Norwegian (Bokmål) Norsk (Bokmål) no 47.76 628,532 24,382,616 1,812,959
Navajo Diné bizaad nv 3.44 22,642 307,455 37,270
Occitan Occitan oc 10.1 89,671 2,424,632 163,736
Oriya ଓଡ଼ିଆ or 77.82 18,015 530,857 79,525
Ossetian Иронау os 59.19 18,317 557,090 67,293
Punjabi ਪੰਜਾਬੀ pa 21.34 54,204 751,676 175,014
Polish Polski pl 33.78 1,613,163 73,475,033 3,723,817
Piedmontese Piemontèis pms 2.24 68,819 871,086 104,484
Western Panjabi شاہ مکھی پنجابی pnb 3.33 72,576 661,198 131,667
Pashto پښتو ps 29.59 19,026 317,972 66,272
Portuguese Português pt 196.39 1,123,757 67,695,225 5,689,172
Quechua Runa Simi qu 22.74 24,071 671,847 57,714
Romanian Română ro 157.86 445,669 16,176,541 2,757,601
Russian Русский ru 157.92 1,977,283 137,256,510 7,961,612
Sanskrit संस्कृतम् sa 175.25 12,179 485,452 75,953
Sakha Саха тыла sah 30.55 17,462 406,081 52,002
Sicilian Sicilianu scn 16.78 26,274 738,813 55,871
Scots Scots sco 57.01 34,885 886,130 139,329
Sindhi سنڌي، سندھی ، सिन्ध sd 28.36 17,010 267,887 59,818
Serbo-Croatian Srpskohrvatski / Српскохрватски sh 749.14 459,466 41,846,478 4,652,872
Shan လိၵ်ႈတႆး shn 3.68 13,534 63,672 31,919
Sinhalese සිංහල si 150.7 20,588 662,637 134,421
Simple English Simple English simple 59.31 251,165 9,495,281 819,409
Slovak Slovenčina sk 23.12 248,652 7,820,367 571,965
Slovenian Slovenščina sl 31.27 184,981 6,197,644 469,788
Albanian Shqip sq 37.15 97,290 2,655,610 294,912
Serbian Српски sr 167.3 688,770 27,691,220 4,128,766
Sundanese Basa Sunda su 2.38 61,687 665,540 98,259
Swedish Svenska sv 17.49 2,583,898 54,580,069 6,236,359
Swahili Kiswahili sw 10.25 80,553 1,330,402 173,770
Silesian Ślůnsko szl 0.37 57,959 369,130 73,832
Tamil தமிழ் ta 34.97 165,206 3,935,479 520,497
Telugu తెలుగు te 87.71 94,737 4,150,027 353,804
Tajik Тоҷикӣ tg 10.54 112,505 1,397,146 274,317
Thai ไทย th 331.98 164,018 11,455,985 1,082,775
Tagalog Tagalog tl 147.52 47,241 2,102,763 241,818
Turkish Türkçe tr 166.14 606,756 32,607,138 2,965,190
Tatar Татарча tt 1.71 501,204 4,142,317 787,071
Ukrainian Українська uk 57.89 1,321,904 42,350,808 4,657,247
Urdu اردو ur 105.76 205,480 6,198,077 1,092,765
Uzbek O‘zbek uz 34.06 259,854 4,287,402 987,801
Venetian Vèneto vec 9.02 69,284 1,168,162 141,781
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt vi 723.35 1,293,121 71,287,124 19,467,699
Volapük Volapük vo 217.8 36,656 3,298,567 153,266
Walloon Walon wa 25.83 12,308 404,284 29,086
Waray-Waray Winaray war 4.25 1,266,437 7,600,594 2,871,076
Wu 吴语 wuu 0.68 43,574 315,431 59,085
Mingrelian მარგალური (Margaluri) xmf 4.11 20,892 220,280 38,618
Yiddish ייִדיש yi 46.37 15,452 592,800 44,175
Yoruba Yorùbá yo 5.02 34,021 581,203 58,135
Chinese 中文 zh 209.49 1,417,177 82,173,299 7,693,397
Classical Chinese 古文 / 文言文 zh-classical 190.64 13,282 405,087 107,951
Min Nan Bân-lâm-gú zh-min-nan 6.47 433,042 3,204,051 1,069,691
Cantonese 粵語 zh-yue 10.55 139,596 2,127,979 313,693
Zulu isiZulu zu 6.33 11,343 106,995 25,196
Language Language (local) Wiki Depth Articles Edits Total Pages


Trends edit

 
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 1249 94 263 34 91 188 19 196 198 158 17 209 48 39 40 58 166 158 218 51 60 17 23 58 138 269 269 167 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 edit

More lists of Wikipedias by various criteria :  [ edit ]

Notes edit

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

External Link edit

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