Wikimedia News/2023

2022

Wikimedia News

2024

December 2023

• Wikipedia ends the year with 62,261,985 articles in 334 languages (plus 5 language wikis with 0 articles), which constitutes a 3% increase in articles over the past year.
• Wiktionary ends the year with 37,864,531 entries in 172 languages (plus 20 language wikis with 0 entries), a 17% increase in entries over the past year.
• Wikiquote ends the year with 314,215 content pages in 82 languages (plus 14 language wikis with 0 content pages), an 8% increase in content pages over the past year.
• Wikibooks ends the year with 372,069 book modules in 99 languages (plus 22 language wikis with 0 book modules), a 10% increase in book modules over the past year.
• Wikisource ends the year with 5,914,077 text units in 215 languages (comprising 5,834,907 units in 75 individual language wikis and an additional 79,170 units in 147 languages at the Multiligual Wikisource — 7 languages have content in both places), a 6% increase in text units over the past year.
• Wikinews ends the year with 1,750,447 articles in 35 languages, a 0.5% increase in articles over the past year.
• Wikiversity ends the year with 152,089 learning modules in 54 languages (comprising 148,340 modules in 17 separate language wikis and an additional 3,749 modules in 37 languages at Wikiversity Beta), a 6% increase in learning modules over the past year.
• Wikivoyage ends the year with 134,012 articles in 24 languages, a 3% increase in articles over the past year.
• Wikimedia Commons ends the year with 99,245,351 media files, an 11% increase over the past year.
• Wikispecies ends the year with 861,531 content pages, a 4% increase over the past year.
• Wikidata ends the year with 108,118,352 items, a 7% increase over the past year.
• Wikimedia Incubator ends the year with 168,299 content pages across 1,290 test wikis in 914 different languages (including 18 test wikis that are currently empty), an 18% increase in content pages and 5% increase in test wikis over the past year.
• The nascent Wikifunctions, still under development since opening to limited editing in August, ends the year with 3,790 functions.
• There were 22 content wikis created in 2023 (10 Wikipedias, 6 Wiktionaries, 3 Wikiquotes, 1 Wikibooks, 1 Wikisource, and 1 Wikinews), 10 more than were created in 2022.
• 3 content wikis were closed/locked in 2023 (2 Wikipedias and 1 Wikiquote).

Note: The article counts listed above are actual counts collected at around 00:00 UTC on 2024-01-01. 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 last hour of 2023-12-31) include closed (but not deleted) wikis and count "Simple English" as a separate language when such a wiki exists within a project.

29

• The Galician Wiktionary has reached 100,000 total pages.
• The Ukrainian Wikisource has reached 200,000 text units.

22

• The Interlingua Wikipedia has fallen below 30,000 articles, as a cross-wiki admin has deleted thousands of substandard articles created by a banned user.

19

• The Dagaare Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

18

• The Gun Wikiquote has reached 500 content pages.

14

• The Atikamekw Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
• The Sinhalese Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.

11

• The Kabardian Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.

9

• The Shan Wikibooks has reached 10,000 page edits.

7

• The German Wikiversity has reached 70,000 learning modules.

6

• The Talysh Wikipedia has reached 10,000 total pages.

5

• The Sinhalese Wiktionary has reached 2,000 entries.

4

• The Cree Wikipedia has dropped below 100 articles, as a user has moved over 100 underdeveloped articles from the main namespace into the project namespace prior to opening a discussion about closing the wiki.
• The Pa'O Wiktionary has reached 10,000 page edits.

3

• The Wayuu Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.
• The Uzbek Wiktionary has reached 10,000 registered users.

2

• The Malagasy Wiktionary has reached 4,000,000 entries.

1

• The Sango Wiktionary has reached 80,000 entries.

November 2023

28

• The Lombard Wiktionary has reached 30,000 entries.
• The Telugu Wikiquote has reached 500 content pages.

24

• The Nigerian Pidgin Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

23

• The Bengali Wiktionary has reached 50,000 entries.
• The Bengali Wikiquote has reached 500 content pages.
• The Dutch Wikisource has reached 15,000 text units.
• The Sundanese Wikisource has reached 200 text units.

21

• The Low German / Low Saxon Wikipedia has reached 1,000,000 page edits.
• The Tsonga Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.
• The Wikimania wiki has reached 100,000 total pages.

20

• The Standard Moroccan Amazigh Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
• The Sinhalese Wikibooks has reached 500 book modules.

19

• The Kurdish Wikipedia has reached 70,000 articles.

18

• The Kalmyk Wikipedia has dropped below 2,000 articles, as a steward has been working to clean up the wiki.

17

• The Santali Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.

16

• Wikimedia Commons has reached 100,000,000 uploaded files.

13

• The Nahuatl Wiktionary has reached 10,000 total pages.

12

• The Goan Konkani Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.

8

• The Toba Batak Wikipedia is open for editing after being created as a standalone wiki two days ago, with 701 articles imported from the test wiki in the Wikimedia Incubator.
• The Banjar Wikiquote is open for editing after being created as a standalone wiki two days ago, with 505 articles imported from the test wiki in the Wikimedia Incubator.

7

• The Dagaare Wikipedia is open for editing after being created as a standalone wiki yesterday, with 573 articles imported from the test wiki in the Wikimedia Incubator.
• The Standard Moroccan Amazigh Wikipedia is open for editing after being created as a standalone wiki yesterday, with 916 articles imported from the test wiki in the Wikimedia Incubator.
• The Tyap Wiktionary has reached 1,000 total pages.

October 2023

31

• The Icelandic Wiktionary has reached 60,000 entries.

29

• The Bengali Wiktionary has reached 10,000 registered users.

28

• The Igbo Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.

27

• The Galician Wikipedia has reached 200,000 articles.

26

• The Fante Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.

24

• The Fon Wikipedia has reached 10,000 page edits.
• The Ido Wikipedia has reached 40,000 articles.

23

• The Alemannic Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles.

22

• The Malay Wiktionary has reached 20,000 entries.

21

• The Classical Chinese Wikipedia has reached 100,000 registered users.

20

• The Fon Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.

18

• The Aragonese Wikipedia has reached 2,000 uploaded files.
• The Bengali Wikiquote has reached 1,000 registered users.
• The Venetian Wikisource has reached 5,000 text units.

15

• The Tyap Wiktionary has reached 500 entries.

14

• The Tongan Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.

12

• The Romani Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
• The Thai Wikiquote has reached 100 content pages.

10

• The Angika Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.
• The Multilingual Wikisource has reached 1,000,000 page edits.

8

• The Kalmyk Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.

7

• The Sinhalese Wikipedia has reached 100,000 total pages.

4

• The Zazaki Wiktionary has reached 10,000 total pages.
• The Fon Wikipedia is (apparently) open for editing after being created as a standalone wiki yesterday, with 447 articles imported from the test wiki in the Wikimedia Incubator.

September 2023

30

• The Central Bikol Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.

28

• The Turkish Wikivoyage has reached 500 articles.

25

• The Wayuu Wikipedia has reached 1,000 total pages.

22

• The Simple English Wiktionary has reached 50,000 total pages.
• The Kurdish Wiktionary has reached 1,000,000 total pages.
• The Somali Wiktionary has reached 2,000 entries.
• The Welsh Wikisource has reached 5,000 text units.

17

• The Alemannic Wikipedia has reached 100,000 registered users.

16

• The Kurdish Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles.

13

• The Lithuanian Wikibooks has reached 2,000 book modules.

10

• The Piedmontese Wikisource has reached 1,000 registered users.

9

• The Wayuu Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.
• The Lithuanian Wikibooks has reached 1,000 book modules.
• The Portuguese Wikinews has reached 30,000 articles.

8

• The Portuguese Wiktionary has reached 400,000 entries.

3

• The Kyrgyz Wikipedia has dropped below 80,000 articles as a local admin has been working to clean up the wiki.

2

• The Balinese Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.
• The Sinhalese Wiktionary has reached 10,000 total pages.

1

• The Hausa Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles.
• The Hausa Wiktionary has reached 2,000 entries.

August 2023

31

• The Talysh Wikipedia is open for editing after being created as a standalone wiki two days ago, with 5,663 articles imported from the test wiki in the Wikimedia Incubator.
• The Swedish Wiktionary has reached 900,000 entries.

30

• The Greek Wiktionary has reached 1,000,000 entries.
• The Kinyarwanda Wikipedia has reached 100,000 page edits.
• The Pa'O Wiktionary has reached 2,000 entries.

29

• The Sundanese Wikisource is open for editing after being created as a standalone wiki about two weeks ago (on 16 August), with 190 text units imported from the Multiligual Wikisource.

25

• The Tumbuka Wikipedia has reached 100,000 page edits.

23

• The Balinese Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.
• The Greek Wiktionary has reached 1,000,000 total pages.

22

• Wikifunctions has reached 2,000 functions.

21

• The Adyghe Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.
• The Greek Wiktionary has reached 900,000 entries.
• The Kurdish Wiktionary has reached 800,000 entries.
• The Polish Wiktionary has reached 100,000 registered users.

20

• The Simple English Wiktionary has reached 40,000 entries.
• The Tswana Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.
• The Assamese Wikiquote has reached 500 content pages.

17

• The Azerbaijani Wikiquote has reached 10,000 total pages.

16

• The Pa'O Wiktionary is open for editing after being created as a standalone wiki earlier today, with approximately 1,500 entries imported from the Incubator test wiki.

14

• The Fiji Hindi Wiktionary has reached 1,000 registered users.

13

• The Galician Wiktionary has reached 80,000 entries.

12

• The Min Nan Wikisource has reached 10,000 page edits.

11

• The Sango Wiktionary has reached 70,000 entries.
• Wikifunctions has reached 10,000 total pages.

9

• The Danish Wikisource has reached 10,000 registered users.

2

• The Mandailing Wiktionary has reached 2,000 entries and 10,000 page edits.

1

• The Moroccan Arabic Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.
• Wikifunctions has been opened to editing in a limited rollout.

July 2023

31

• The Karakalpak Wikipedia has reached 10,000 total pages.

29

• The Armenian Wikipedia has reached 300,000 articles.
• The Multilingual Wikisource has reached 70,000 text units.

27

• The Min Dong Wikipedia has reached 100,000 page edits.
• The Walloon Wiktionary has reached 30,000 entries.
• The Balinese Wikisource has reached 1,000 registered users.

26

• The Farefare Wikipedia has reached 10,000 page edits.
• The Mandailing Wiktionary is open for editing after being created as a standalone wiki yesterday, with 54 entries imported from the test wiki in the Incubator (the low entry count is due to the lack of links on main-namespace pages).
• Wikifunctions has been added to the Wikimedia site matrix, but isn't quite ready for editing yet.

24

• The Pa'O Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.
• The Wikimedia Foundation Governance wiki has reached 100,000 registered users.

22

• The Belarusian Wikisource has reached 15,000 text units.

21

• The Central Bikol Wikiquote has reached 100 content pages.

20

• The Tyap Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.

18

• The Azerbaijani Wiktionary has reached 10,000 registered users.

15

• The Walloon Wikisource has reached 2,000 text units.

13

• The Belarusian (Taraškievica) Wikipedia has reached 2,000 uploaded files.
• The Uzbek Wikipedia has reached 100,000 registered users.

10

• The Nigerian Pidgin Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.

9

• The Wikimania wiki has reached 100,000 registered users.

7

• The Dzongkha Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.

5

• The Ghanaian Pidgin Wikipedia is open for editing after having been created as a standalone wiki yesterday, with about 700 articles imported from the test wiki in the Wikimedia Incubator.

1

• The Tongan Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.
• The Japanese Wiktionary has reached 100,000 registered users.

June 2023

30

• The Amis Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

28

• The Belarusian Wiktionary has reached 5,000 entries.

25

• The Mongolian Wikipedia has reached 100,000 total pages.

24

• The Tumbuka Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.

22

• The Gun Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.
• The English Wikisource has reached 1,000,000 text units.

18

• The Simple English Wiktionary has reached 500,000 page edits.

17

• The Kazakh Wiktionary has reached 10,000 entries.
• The Azerbaijani Wikisource has reached 10,000 text units.

15

• The Javanese Wikisource has reached 1,000 registered users.

11

• The Papiamentu Wikipedia has reached 100,000 page edits.

9

• The Chechen Wikipedia has reached 600,000 articles.

8

• The Central Kurdish/Sorani Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.

7

• The Kazakh Wiktionary has reached 100,000 page edits.

5

• The Irish Wikipedia has reached 100,000 total pages.

4

• The Western Punjabi Wikipedia has reached 70,000 articles.
• The Bengali Wikisource has reached 30,000 text units.

3

• The Breton Wikipedia has reached 80,000 articles.
• The Kannada Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles.

2

• The Sango Wiktionary has reached 60,000 entries.
• The Indonesian Wikibooks has reached 5,000 book modules.

1

• The English Wikipedia has fallen below 900 administrators, due to the most recent desysopping (for inactivity).
• The Fula Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
• The Farefare Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.

May 2023

31

• The Chechen Wikipedia has reached 10,000,000 page edits.
• The Chinese Wikisource has reached 100,000 registered users.

30

• The Malagasy Wiktionary has reached 3,000,000 entries.

29

• The Punjabi Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.

26

• The Ladin Wikipedia has reached 150,000 articles.

25

• The Lombard Wikipedia has reached 70,000 articles.

23

• The Mon Wiktionary has reached 1,000 registered users.

20

• The Pontic Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.

19

• The Japanese Wikivoyage has reached 1,000 articles.
• The Albanian Wikipedia has reached 90,000 articles.

18

• The Igbo Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.

17

• The Tulu Wikipedia has reached 10,000 total pages.

15

• The Akan Wikipedia has had all of its entries deleted, after having been closed back in April.
• The Gorontalo Wiktionary has reached 10,000 entries.

14

• The Kabardian Wiktionary has reached 20,000 entries.
• The Kazakh Wiktionary has reached 10,000 total pages.

13

• The Mirandese Wikipedia has reached 100,000 page edits.

12

• The Mazandarani Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.

11

• The Hungarian Wiktionary has reached 500,000 entries, as a user has been creating thousands of new entries lacking definitions.
• The Kabardian Wiktionary has reached 15,000 entries.

10

• The Lombard Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles.

9

• The Danish Wiktionary has reached 40,000 entries.

8

• The Kabardian Wiktionary has reached 2,000 entries.

7

• The Hebrew Wikivoyage has reached 10,000 registered users.

6

• The Malagasy Wiktionary has reached 2,000,000 entries, as tens of thousands of entries for verb forms have been added in the last few days.

5

• The Igbo Wikiquote has reached 500 articles.

1

• The Nauruan Wikipedia has been closed and its content moved into a test wiki in the Wikimedia Incubator.
• The Mon Wiktionary has reached 40,000 entries.

April 2023

30

• The French Wikisource has reached 500,000 text units.

29

• The Farefare Wikipedia has reached 1,000 total pages.

28

• The Sesotho Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.

25

• The Indonesian Wikiquote has reached 2,000 articles.

24

• The Greek Wikipedia has reached 10,000,000 page edits.

21

• The Tatar Wikipedia has reached 500,000 articles.
• The Kabardian Wiktionary is open for editing after being created as a standalone wiki yesterday, with over 1000 entries imported from the Incubator test wiki.
• The Gun Wikinews is open for editing after being created as a standalone wiki yesterday, with approximately 800 articles imported from the Incubator test wiki.

20

• The Fante Wikipedia is open for editing after being created as a standalone wiki earlier today, with 208 articles imported from the Incubator test wiki.
• The Tyap Wiktionary is open for editing after being created as a standalone wiki earlier today, with 460 entries imported from the Incubator test wiki.

13

• The Punjabi Wikibooks has reached 1,000 total pages.
• The Russian Wikiquote has reached 100,000 registered users.

12

• The MediaWiki wiki has reached 60,000 content pages.

11

• Wikimedia's Donate wiki has reached 1,000 uploaded files.
• The Wolof Wikiquote has been closed and its content moved into a test wiki in the Wikimedia Incubator.

10

• The Interlingua Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles.
• The Tumbuka Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
• The Mingrelian Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.

6

• The Portuguese Wikivoyage has reached 10,000 total pages.

4

• The Akan Wikipedia has fallen below 500 articles, as almost 200 articles have been deleted or moved to the Twi Wikipedia since the wiki was closed three days ago.
• The Lao Wikipedia has reached 100,000 page edits.

1

• The Central Kurdish/Sorani Wiktionary has reached 5,000 entries.
• The Akan Wikipedia has been closed after having been found to be largely redundant with the Twi Wikipedia and not an appropriate Wikipedia in the first place, since Akan is considered a family of languages including Twi and Fante, the latter of which has a test wiki in the Incubator. (Note that the Akan Wikibooks and Akan Wiktionary have been closed since 2007 and 2008, respectively).

March 2023

31

• The Assamese Wikiquote has reached 10,000 page edits.

29

• The Pennsylvania German Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
• The Central Kurdish/Sorani Wiktionary is open for editing after being created as a standalone wiki earlier today, with 4,985 entries imported from the Incubator test wiki.
• The Portuguese Wiktionary has reached 300,000 entries.

23

• The Armenian Wikipedia has reached 1,000,000 total pages.

22

• The Angika Wikipedia is open for editing after having been created yesterday, with 1,269 articles imported from the Incubator test wiki.

21

• The Kashmiri Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.
• The Kinyarwanda Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
• The Assamese Wikiquote has reached 1,000 total pages.

20

• The Ukrainian Wikisource has reached 150,000 text units.

19

• The Icelandic Wiktionary has reached 50,000 entries.
• The Javanese Wikisource has reached 10,000 total pages.

18

• The Inuktitut Wikipedia has dropped below 500 articles after some cleanup by a global admin.

17

• The Samoan Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.

16

• The Khmer Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.

15

• The Madurese Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

14

• The Farefare Wikipedia has reached 200 articles.

10

• The Javanese Wikisource has reached 2,000 text units.
• The Dutch Wikinews has reached 10,000 registered users.

6

• The Karachay-Balkar Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.

5

• The Asturian Wiktionary has reached 50,000 entries.

4

• The Azerbaijani Wikibooks has reached 10,000 registered users.

2

• The Gorontalo Wiktionary has reached 10,000 total pages.
• The Sango Wiktionary has reached 50,000 entries, as a user has been creating hundreds of new entries with example sentences but no definitions.

February 2023

27

• The Cebuano Wikipedia has reached 100,000 registered users.
• The Wayuu Wikipedia is open for editing after having been created earlier today, with 459 articles imported from the test wiki.
• The Farefare Wikipedia is open for editing after having been created earlier today, with 147 articles imported from the test wiki.
• The Vietnamese Wikibooks has reached 40,000 book pages, as a local admin has been writing a "History Encyclopedia" that would seem to be redundant, given the existence of the Vietnamese Wikipedia.
• The Spanish Wikisource has fallen below 90,000 text units, as the consolidation of texts continues (see 15 February, below).
• The Multilingual Wikisource has reached 60,000 text units.

26

• The Kashmiri Wikipedia has reached 10,000 total pages.

23

• The Chichewa Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.

22

• The Gorontalo Wiktionary has reached 5,000 entries.

19

• The Nigerian Pidgin Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.

17

• The Oromo Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.

16

• The Inari Sami Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.

15

• The Luganda Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
• The Spanish Wikisource has fallen below 100,000 text units, as a bot has been consolidating thousands of separate short pages into fewer longer pages.

14

• The Zulu Wikipedia has reached 100,000 page edits.
• The Sundanese Wikiquote has reached 2,000 articles.

12

• The Ladin Wikipedia has reached 100,000 articles, as a local admin has been creating thousands of stubs about villages in India.
• The Marathi Wikipedia has reached 90,000 articles.
• The Scots Wikipedia has reached 100,000 registered users.

11

• The Ladin Wikipedia has reached 100,000 total pages and 90,000 articles.
• The Hungarian Wiktionary has reached 400,000 entries, as a user has been creating thousands of essentially content-free entries.

9

• The Inupiak Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.

6

• The Punjabi Wikipedia has reached 40,000 articles.

5

• The Ladin Wikipedia has reached 80,000 articles.
• The Classical Chinese Wikipedia has reached 100,000 total pages.

4

• The Chichewa Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

3

• The Shan Wikibooks has fallen below 200 book pages.
• The Basque Wikisource has reached 1,000 registered users.

January 2023

31

• The Turkish Wikiquote has reached 5,000 articles.

29

• The Vietnamese Wikibooks has reached 30,000 book pages.

27

• The Catalan Wikisource has reached 10,000 registered users.
• The Vietnamese Wikivoyage has reached 10,000 registered users.

23

• The Tok Pisin Wiktionary has dropped below 1,000 entries.

20

• The Lingua Franca Nova Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.

19

• The Scots Wikipedia has dropped below 40,000 articles, as a local admin has been cleaning up the wiki.

18

• The Gorontalo Wiktionary has reached 2,000 entries, as a bot has been adding links (via a template) to thousands of existing pages in the main namespace.

16

• The Zhuang Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.

15

• The French Wikipedia has reached 200 million page edits.

14

• The Hindi Wikiquote has reached 500 articles.

13

• The Malay Wiktionary has reached 15,000 entries.

12

• The Hebrew Wikisource has reached 1,000,000 total pages, as a bot has been adding tens of thousands of new redirects each day (on the average) for the past two weeks, with the result that the total page count of the wiki has more than doubled in that time.

11

• The Twi Wikipedia has reached 100,000 page edits.

10

• The Wikimedia Commons has reached 90,000,000 uploaded files, almost exactly one year after reaching 80,000,000.

8

• The Estonian Wikiquote has reached 100,000 page edits.

7

• The Thai Wikipedia has reached 1,000,000 total pages.

4

• The following standalone wikis are open for editing after having been created earlier today, with content imported from the Wikimedia Incubator:
  • The Shan Wikibooks has been created, with approximately 410 book pages imported from the test wiki.
  • The Assamese Wikiquote has been created, with approximately 240 articles imported from the test wiki.
  • The Gun Wikiquote has been created, with 429 articles imported from the test wiki.
  • The Gorontalo Wiktionary has been created, with 223 entries imported from the test wiki.

1

• The English Wikipedia has fallen below 1,000 administrators, due to a mass-desysopping (for inactivity).
• The Ewe Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.

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