List of Wikipedias
This page contains information about all 333 languages for which official Wikipedias have been created under the auspices of the Wikimedia Foundation. The table below, however, excludes 13 Wikipedias that were closed and moved to the Wikimedia Incubator for further development, leaving a current total of 320 active Wikipedias. Content in other languages is being developed at the Wikimedia Incubator; languages which meet certain criteria can get their own wikis.
The table entries are ordered by current article count. Each entry gives the language name in English (linked to the English Wikipedia article for the language); its "local name" (i.e. in the language itself, linked to the article in that language's wiki); the language code used in the wiki's URL address and in interwiki links to it (linked to the local Main Page); and statistics on articles, edits, administrators, users, active users, and images (each linked to an appropriate local special page).
To start a Wikipedia in a new language, please see our language proposal policy and the Incubator manual. Note: Just adding a link here does not create a new Wikipedia, nor does it serve to request that one be created.
If a wiki becomes active and is not listed here, please post a notice on this article's talk page, including a link to all the relevant Wikipedia pages, and help promote the effort by announcing it on the Wikipedia-L mailing list, and at Wikimedia News.
The tables here are maintained automatically based on statistics collected by a bot four times a day, so it is not necessary to "manually" update the table. (The way this is being done makes that impossible, anyway.) If something is wrong with an entry other than simply having slightly outdated statistics, post about it on the talk page.
More lists of Wikipedias by various criteria : [ edit ]
- List of Wikipedias by article count, users, file count and depth and its source (both updated every 6 hours)
- List of Wikipedias by edits per article and depth (both updated every 6 hours)
- List of Wikipedias by language group and family (both updated every 6 hours) and language families as a tree (not just Wikipedias)
- List of Wikipedias by country (updated manually)
- List of Wikipedias by speakers per article (updated every 6 hours)
- List of Wikipedias by sample of articles and expanded sample of articles (both updated monthly)
- List of Wikipedias by featured and good articles (both updated manually)
- List of Wikipedias by creation date (incomplete)
- List of Wikipedias in multiple writing systems
- List of Wikipedias having local media files and zero local media files (both updated manually)
- List of Wikipedia milestones or en:Wikipedia:Milestone statistics (tracking of major article-count milestones)
- List of largest wikis (not just Wikimedia wikis)
- Wikimedia News (announcements and tracking of milestones for all Wikimedia projects)
- Tell us about your Wikipedia
Notes
- The "All pages" column refers to the number of pages in all namespaces, including both articles (the official article count of each wiki) and non-articles (user pages, images, talk pages, "project" pages, categories, and templates).
- "Active Users" are registered users who have made at least one edit in the last thirty days.
- "Files" is the number of locally uploaded files. Note that some large Wikipedias do not use local images or other media files and rely on Commons completely, so the value "0" is not a glitch (see also List of Wikipedias having zero local media files).
All Wikipedias ordered by number of articles
The languages listed here are Wikipedias that have been created as separate subdomains of wikipedia.org, ordered by number of articles. The table can also be sorted by other columns. It excludes closed Wikipedias. Historical data of this table dating back to 2007 can be found in the history of this table (or, after 15 October 2022, in the history of the current source of the data).
- These statistics are updated four times a day. See commons:Data:Wikipedia statistics/data.tab for the date/time of last update. (If reloading this page doesn't update the numbers to what is seen at Commons, try purging the cache.)
Totals | Articles | All pages | Edits | Admins | Users | Active users | Files |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All active Wikipedias | 61,219,701 | 252,904,226 | 3,348,924,764 | 3,604 | 108,122,973 | 298,919 | 2,768,323 |
Other Wikipedias
Not yet created
Please visit the Wikimedia Incubator for new language versions (known as "tests") that may become stand-alone wikis in the future. See the Incubator Manual and FAQ for more information.
- Manually maintained list of test Wikipedias in the Incubator
- Search for a wiki in over 400 different languages (includes normal Wikipedias and test Wikipedias)
Closed and read-only
These Wikipedias are closed and in read-only status. Existing users can still log in and their user preferences are still effective, but they cannot edit any pages. Editiable copies of these Wikipedias can be found in the Incubator; for example, the page cho:Chahta at the closed Choctaw Wikipedia can be found (and edited) at incubator:Wp/cho/Chahta.
- aa: – The Afar Wikipedia was closed on 10 May 2008. It is now found at incubator:Wp/aa.
- ak: – The Akan Wikipedia was closed on 1 April 2023. It should be noted that Akan is now considered a family of languages, so the ak.wikipedia domain has been split into two separate projects (and potentially more): one for Twi at tw:, and another for Fante at fat:.
- cho: – The Choctaw Wikipedia was closed on 3 July 2007, following a community vote. It is now found at incubator:Wp/cho.
- ho: – The Hiri Motu Wikipedia was closed on 9 July 2007. It is now found at incubator:Wp/ho.
- hz: – The Herero Wikipedia was closed on 24 July 2007. The wiki has been emptied and locked, but the original user pages still exist. It is now found at incubator:Wp/hz.
- ii: – The Yi Wikipedia was closed on 29 July 2007. It is now found at incubator:Wp/ii.
- kj: – The Kwanyama Wikipedia was closed on 10 July 2007. It is now found at incubator:Wp/kj.
- kr: – The Kanuri Wikipedia was closed on 3 May 2007, following a community vote. The reason was the absence of both content and community. It is now found at incubator:Wp/kr.
- lrc: – The Northern Luri Wikipedia was closed on 14 January 2021. As almost all of the former content was confirmed to be not written in Luri, it was not imported back into the Incubator. Users who speak the language are encouraged to re-start a test project.
- mh: – The Marshallese Wikipedia was closed on 4 May 2008. It is now found at incubator:Wp/mh.
- mus: – The Muscogee Wikipedia was closed on 10 July 2007. It is now found at incubator:Wp/mus.
- na: – The Nauruan Wikipedia was closed on 1 May 2023. It is now found at incubator:Wp/na.
- ng: – The Ndonga Wikipedia was closed on 10 January 2010. It is now found at incubator:Wp/ng.
See also our Special:SiteMatrix, where the closed Wikipedias are crossed out (and the red links indicate wikis that have never existed). There is also a configuration file listing all closed Wikimedia projects.
Deleted but hosted elsewhere
These Wikipedias are no longer hosted by Wikimedia. They have been moved to other hosts.
- tok: – The Toki Pona Wikipedia was officially closed in 2008 and all projects in that language were deleted in 2010 due to the lack of a valid ISO language code. The wiki was hosted by Wikia (which became Fandom) until 2021. It is now an independently hosted encyclopedia at https://wikipesija.org.
- tlh: – The Klingon Wikipedia was permanently locked in August 2005, and was moved to Wikia (Fandom) as the Klingon Wiki. For details, see the history of the Klingon Wikipedia.
- ru-sib: – The Siberian Wikipedia was deleted in 2007 after it became apparent that the creation of the wiki in 2006 was based on a hoax. The wiki's content was moved to the sibvolgota (now a dead link).
- mo: – The Moldovan Wikipedia in the Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet was deleted in November 2017, a decade after being closed. It is now hosted by Fandom as Википедия. The mo: interlanguage prefix now points to the Romanian Wikipedia.
Nonstandard language codes
These Wikipedias use language codes that do not conform to the ISO 639 standard (which is how wiki subdomains are chosen nowadays).
- als: – originally used for the Alsatian Wikipedia, which now encompasses the Alemannic dialects in general — the official code
gsw
is being considered as a replacement subdomain (note thatals
officially represents the unrelated language Tosk Albanian) - bat-smg: – invented code used for the Samogitian Wikipedia (not the official code
sgs
) - cbk-zam: – invented code used for the Zamboanga Chavacano Wikipedia (note that
cbk
is the correct code for the larger family of langugages Zamboanga Chavacano is a member of) - fiu-vro: – invented code used for the Võro Wikipedia (not the official code
vro
— note thatfiu
is the official code for the family of languages Võro is a member of) - ksh: – code used for the Ripuarian Wikipedia, even though
ksh
actually represents Kölsch (or Colognian), a subset of Ripuarian - map-bms: – invented code used for the Banyumasan Wikipedia (note that
map
does represent the family of languages the Banyumasan dialect falls within) - nds-nl: – invented code used for Dutch Low Saxon Wikipedia would technically be the correct code for Low Saxon spoken in the Netherlands (i.e.,
nds-NL
), but is therefore redundant with nds:, the code used for the Low German/Low Saxon Wikipedia (note thatnds
is the correct code for the Low German/Low Saxon family of languages, which Dutch Low Saxon is a member of) - nrm: – code used for the Norman Wikipedia (not the official code
nrf
— note thatnrm
is the official code for the completely unrelated language Narom) - roa-rup: – invented code used for the Aromanian Wikipedia (not the official code
rup
— note thatroa
is the standard code for the larger family of Romance languages that Aromanian is a member of) - roa-tara: – invented code used for the Tarantino Wikipedia (again,
roa
is the standard code for the large family of Romance languages that the Tarantino dialect falls within) - simple: – invented code used for the Simple English Wikipedia (not the official IETF code
en-simple
) - zh-classical: – invented code used for the Classical Chinese Wikipedia (not the official code
lzh
) - zh-min-nan: – invented code used for the Southern Min Wikipedia (not the official code
nan
) - zh-yue: – invented code used for the Cantonese Wikipedia (not the official code
yue
)
Note that renaming wiki subdomains is very difficult, which is why so many of these nonstandard codes are still in use despite the existence of alternatives.
Redirects
- nan: – redirects to zh-min-nan: (the Southern Min Wikipedia)
- cz: – redirects to cs: (the Czech Wikipedia)
- dk: – redirects to da: (the Danish Wikipedia)
- be-x-old: – redirects to be-tarask: (the Belarusian Wikipedia using Taraškievica orthography)
- nb: – redirects to no: (the Norwegian Wikipedia using Bokmål orthography)
- mo: – redirects to ro: (as discussed above, the Moldovan Wikipedia now redirects to the Romanian Wikipedia)
Non-language subdomains
- nostalgia: – A read-only snapshot of Wikipedia's early days.
- sep11: – The Sep11wiki existed with a .wikipedia.org URL from 2001 to 2008, despite its totally different scope and purpose from all other Wikipedias. It was made read-only in 2006 and closed two years later.
See also
- Article counts revisited Detailed notes (from 2015) about the subtleties of counting the number of articles
- There is also a Wikipedia in your language
Additional resources and statistics
- Abstract Wikipedia – An upcoming Wikimedia project.
- Administrators of Wikimedia projects/Wikipedias – with the numbers of users
- Interlanguage links – MediaWiki software feature
- List of largest wikis – Only Includes Lists of the largest wikis
- Requests for new languages – A Proposal Used for new language versions.
- Proposals for closing projects – A Proposal used for Closing or Deleting the wikimedia projects.
- Proposals for new projects – A Proposal used for new wikimedia projects.
- List of Wikipedias/logarithmic chart – updated with {{NUMBEROF/data}}
- List of Wikipedias/sortable – similar to tables here but in a single table for easier sorting
- Meta:Templates for translating language names – mostly deprecated by new features of the software
- Multilingual Wikipedia – A content page about the Communication of Wikipedia.
- Special:SiteMatrix – automatically generated table of languages for all projects (including wikis not yet created), ordered by language code
- Template:Active Wikipedias – just a list of all existing Wikipedias (with links) ordered by local language name
- Wikipedia article traffic stats – counts hits (views) for individual articles
- Wikipedia logo in each language, including the name "Wikipedia" in different languages
- Wikimedia Statistics – several statistical metrics for all Wikimedia projects
- Wikipedia:Multilingual coordination
- Wikipedia milestones (+en:Wikipedia:Milestone statistics)
- Wikipedias in multiple writing systems
Additional projects
- Wikimedia projects – with a link to each "Village Pump" etc.
- Complete lists of Wikimedia projects: separate lists | table