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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 1281.4 ( = 20.27 × 63.22).

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 7.14 12,966 151,697 27,800
Afrikaans Afrikaans af 36.82 120,049 2,713,279 399,618
Alemannic Alemannisch als 28.16 30,698 1,058,781 73,671
Amharic አማርኛ am 33.81 15,375 381,881 46,606
Aragonese Aragonés an 78.87 47,075 2,224,226 158,778
Arabic العربية ar 276.16 1,246,377 68,538,970 8,570,686
Moroccan Arabic داريجة ary 197.1 10,341 380,256 74,679
Egyptian Arabic مصرى arz 0.5 1,625,592 10,726,924 2,136,913
Assamese অসমীয়া as 159.85 14,183 448,132 98,069
Asturian Asturianu ast 10.46 136,809 4,297,751 241,735
Kotava Kotava avk 0.19 29,741 145,553 36,147
Azerbaijani Azərbaycanca az 49.3 200,573 7,847,661 585,165
South Azerbaijani تۆرکجه azb 5.1 243,805 1,566,520 578,234
Bashkir Башҡорт ba 24.59 63,755 1,279,145 183,503
Balinese Bali ban 3.56 26,639 202,866 52,099
Bavarian Boarisch bar 71.58 27,166 844,452 110,191
Samogitian Žemaitėška bat-smg 6.57 17,239 361,180 29,968
Central Bicolano Bikol bcl 14.39 17,958 279,674 45,407
Belarusian Беларуская be 23.25 248,185 4,867,805 702,912
Belarusian (Taraškievica) Беларуская (тарашкевіца) be-tarask 36.82 87,959 2,576,942 256,263
Bulgarian Български bg 28.71 301,402 12,399,448 679,451
Bengali বাংলা bn 296.82 160,222 7,753,893 1,283,124
Bishnupriya Manipuri বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী bpy 32.93 25,087 894,290 63,428
Breton Brezhoneg br 8.84 87,200 2,115,030 158,073
Bosnian Bosanski bs 85.02 94,083 3,656,888 370,034
Buginese Basa Ugi bug 0.73 15,846 202,940 20,123
Catalan Català ca 40.34 763,767 34,227,459 1,909,533
Chechen Нохчийн ce 8.43 601,406 10,448,415 1,191,012
Min Dong Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄ cdo 3.13 16,555 102,208 33,281
Cebuano Sinugboanong Binisaya ceb 2.18 6,116,888 35,052,540 11,229,373
Sorani کوردی ckb 29.87 73,075 1,378,279 239,603
Crimean Tatar Qırımtatarca crh 3.6 28,441 231,026 54,692
Czech Čeština cs 50.68 557,062 24,383,530 1,560,178
Chuvash Чăваш cv 7.84 56,850 839,519 116,045
Welsh Cymraeg cy 16.39 281,378 13,331,795 502,570
Danish Dansk da 57.34 303,806 11,878,637 956,701
German Deutsch de 93.83 2,962,094 249,010,033 8,154,220
Zazaki Zazaki diq 2.16 42,161 533,169 63,525
Greek Ελληνικά el 55.05 242,727 10,827,314 700,944
Emilian-Romagnol Emiliàn e rumagnòl eml 12.98 13,064 157,354 35,377
English English en 1281.42 6,915,650 1,254,688,622 61,903,997
Esperanto Esperanto eo 17.12 361,336 8,909,394 813,005
Spanish Español es 197.45 1,991,559 163,300,101 8,301,191
Estonian Eesti et 21.13 249,108 6,760,945 586,359
Basque Euskara eu 13.95 447,869 9,959,575 969,994
Persian فارسی fa 152.34 1,020,094 40,587,286 5,765,483
Finnish Suomi fi 38.26 583,964 22,791,547 1,515,269
Faroese Føroyskt fo 33.66 14,133 382,473 40,971
French Français fr 267.13 2,649,185 220,118,254 13,287,193
North Frisian Nordfriisk frr 11.98 20,079 268,917 50,059
West Frisian Frysk fy 29.48 54,610 1,173,448 166,212
Irish Gaeilge ga 6.65 61,125 1,246,774 107,374
Scottish Gaelic Gàidhlig gd 18.81 15,984 577,401 32,407
Galician Galego gl 27.33 216,627 6,886,185 531,183
Gorontalo Hulontalo gor 0.79 14,789 57,649 23,092
Gujarati ગુજરાતી gu 72.13 30,476 873,275 130,551
Hausa Hausa / هَوُسَ ha 2.14 51,406 545,157 80,299
Fiji Hindi Fiji Hindi hif 74.64 11,297 316,777 50,117
Hebrew עברית he 270.58 365,857 39,960,833 1,551,765
Hindi हिन्दी hi 244.85 163,662 6,297,758 1,348,863
Croatian Hrvatski hr 18.91 223,464 7,059,304 475,685
Upper Sorbian Hornjoserbsce hsb 26.1 13,959 384,217 35,696
Haitian Krèyol ayisyen ht 0.79 70,382 857,411 90,769
Hungarian Magyar hu 60.28 550,385 27,571,958 1,570,105
Armenian Հայերեն hy 63.29 313,988 10,144,426 1,157,878
Interlingua Interlingua ia 3.95 29,761 671,175 45,083
Indonesian Bahasa Indonesia id 138.09 711,292 26,533,946 3,926,724
Ilokano Ilokano ilo 72.97 15,391 401,959 70,418
Ido Ido io 2.21 51,429 1,056,665 71,302
Icelandic Íslenska is 31.22 59,410 1,884,144 154,448
Italian Italiano it 190.31 1,892,662 142,018,953 8,145,767
Japanese 日本語 ja 91.06 1,438,148 102,494,007 4,224,111
Javanese Basa Jawa jv 20.3 74,141 1,702,745 183,911
Georgian ქართული ka 30.56 176,515 4,711,635 491,788
Kazakh Қазақша kk 15.24 238,272 3,401,020 642,687
Kannada ಕನ್ನಡ kn 97.39 32,962 1,255,451 142,585
Korean 한국어 ko 166.3 690,738 38,140,397 3,317,982
Kurdish Kurdî ku 28.75 87,471 1,875,361 263,144
Kirghiz Кыргызча ky 0.78 77,016 494,545 108,829
Latin Latina la 14.71 139,655 3,854,992 285,361
Luxembourgish Lëtzebuergesch lb 25.44 64,209 2,556,720 139,981
Limburgish Limburgs li 87.5 15,026 476,942 68,159
Ligurian Lìgure lij 18.96 11,323 253,054 27,610
Ladin Ladin lld 0.002 180,770 240,696 187,671
Lombard Lumbaart lmo 8.06 74,484 1,288,220 145,596
Lithuanian Lietuvių lt 30.16 220,084 7,424,828 548,618
Latvian Latviešu lv 72.45 131,021 4,172,446 527,563
Maithili मैथिली mai 26.39 14,118 264,191 43,573
Banyumasan Basa Banyumasan map-bms 10.15 13,930 220,723 30,399
Malagasy Malagasy mg 10.6 98,386 1,090,929 252,473
Meadow Mari Олык Марий (Olyk Marij) mhr 18.85 11,331 199,072 30,624
Minangkabau Bahaso Minangkabau min 7.659 227,999 3,158,416 471,906
Macedonian Македонски mk 76.23 147,596 5,283,214 571,401
Malayalam മലയാളം ml 202.26 86,234 4,047,139 530,073
Mongolian Монгол mn 86.53 24,562 796,724 109,114
Meitei ꯃꯤꯇꯩꯂꯣꯟ mni 1.38 10,437 58,018 17,103
Marathi मराठी mr 39.05 98,519 2,499,656 318,144
Hill Mari Кырык Мары (Kyryk Mary) mrj 4.78 10,431 106,359 20,419
Malay Bahasa Melayu ms 18.93 395,512 6,369,371 1,115,625
Burmese language မြန်မာဘာသာ my 5.65 108,519 851,486 247,641
Mazandarani مَزِروني mzn 2.1 45,142 268,914 81,061
Neapolitan Nnapulitano nap 10.56 14,885 668,756 24,061
Low Saxon Plattdüütsch nds 6.91 85,080 1,028,695 178,130
Nepali नेपाली ne 72.32 31,391 1,255,758 110,626
Newari नेवारी new 8.71 72,463 869,467 165,900
Dutch Nederlands nl 19.28 2,172,510 68,264,053 4,666,377
Norwegian (Nynorsk) Nynorsk nn 14.77 172,221 3,571,008 391,305
Norwegian (Bokmål) Norsk (Bokmål) no 47.9 638,937 24,768,155 1,846,264
Navajo Diné bizaad nv 3.45 22,657 307,953 37,306
Occitan Occitan oc 10.15 90,256 2,442,890 164,991
Oriya ଓଡ଼ିଆ or 75.35 18,816 547,252 82,062
Ossetian Иронау os 56.53 19,442 569,609 71,080
Punjabi ਪੰਜਾਬੀ pa 21.82 55,231 772,596 179,654
Polish Polski pl 34.55 1,636,194 75,137,923 3,798,465
Piedmontese Piemontèis pms 2.21 69,157 873,278 104,774
Western Panjabi شاہ مکھی پنجابی pnb 3.49 73,560 674,151 135,020
Pashto پښتو ps 30.87 19,972 340,438 70,458
Portuguese Português pt 199.05 1,138,545 68,872,884 5,799,976
Quechua Runa Simi qu 22.97 24,073 674,424 57,868
Romanian Română ro 128.77 500,807 16,621,319 2,856,852
Russian Русский ru 159.71 2,011,658 141,406,144 8,093,996
Sanskrit संस्कृतम् sa 181.56 12,219 489,518 77,897
Sakha Саха тыла sah 32.59 17,187 411,219 52,119
Sicilian Sicilianu scn 17.25 26,338 754,987 56,174
Scots Scots sco 58.7 34,445 893,024 138,303
Sindhi سنڌي، سندھی ، सिन्ध sd 28.54 18,483 297,474 64,434
Serbo-Croatian Srpskohrvatski / Српскохрватски sh 748.25 460,177 42,215,274 4,628,004
Shan လိၵ်ႈတႆး shn 3.71 13,710 65,246 32,273
Sinhalese සිංහල si 183.55 21,704 727,375 159,320
Simple English Simple English simple 60 260,407 9,879,381 853,178
Slovak Slovenčina sk 23.38 251,094 7,923,891 579,399
Slovenian Slovenščina sl 31.85 187,567 6,332,566 478,548
Albanian Shqip sq 36.86 100,754 2,716,740 306,093
Serbian Српски sr 171.63 697,759 28,842,387 4,176,050
Sundanese Basa Sunda su 2.45 61,815 672,848 98,911
Swedish Svenska sv 17.94 2,597,972 56,211,133 6,274,434
Swahili Kiswahili sw 9.07 87,178 1,363,693 183,518
Silesian Ślůnsko szl 0.38 58,452 374,216 74,490
Tamil தமிழ் ta 42.15 169,611 4,138,457 582,853
Telugu తెలుగు te 80.12 101,550 4,312,167 366,581
Tajik Тоҷикӣ tg 10.53 114,077 1,414,155 278,249
Thai ไทย th 339.12 168,934 11,956,314 1,121,869
Tagalog Tagalog tl 146.43 47,862 2,132,627 243,610
Turkish Türkçe tr 186.41 624,519 34,231,062 3,253,114
Tatar Татарча tt 2.26 502,256 4,400,959 829,832
Ukrainian Українська uk 59.3 1,354,417 43,906,530 4,804,588
Urdu اردو ur 101.27 214,834 6,441,070 1,113,898
Uzbek O‘zbek uz 36.23 293,137 5,319,964 1,092,814
Venetian Vèneto vec 9.28 69,357 1,177,302 142,972
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt vi 729.53 1,294,099 71,909,099 19,492,230
Volapük Volapük vo 193.67 38,757 3,305,621 155,884
Walloon Walon wa 26.05 12,476 408,877 29,612
Waray-Waray Winaray war 4.25 1,266,606 7,603,813 2,870,194
Wu 吴语 wuu 0.76 44,447 327,386 61,147
Mingrelian მარგალური (Margaluri) xmf 4.31 21,590 232,261 40,251
Yiddish ייִדיש yi 46.16 15,486 594,495 44,163
Yoruba Yorùbá yo 4.92 34,648 589,178 58,973
Chinese 中文 zh 210.58 1,452,097 84,780,766 7,873,655
Classical Chinese 古文 / 文言文 zh-classical 193.08 13,488 411,175 110,761
Min Nan Bân-lâm-gú zh-min-nan 6.5 433,424 3,218,961 1,071,084
Cantonese 粵語 zh-yue 10.76 142,687 2,207,310 321,281
Zulu isiZulu zu 6.43 11,556 111,042 25,635
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 1281 94 267 35 91 190 19 199 197 160 18 211 48 38 40 59 186 129 194 51 60 17 23 57 138 271 276 166 30 172
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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