Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia/2001 archived data


This is a historical dataset for the size of Wikipedia, in its original tabular presentation, archived from Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia, which now contains a digest of this data in a simpler format.

This data is being kept for historical reference.

The figures below are for the year 2001: 

Date                All    Comma pp. 150+ 1000+ 2000+ Wkpdns Wkpd Talk Lists RDR  Conservative count Ref.
             Dec 14                                                               19000
             Dec  7                                                               18000
             Nov  6                                                               16000+
             Oct 25        17307                      399    229  1600 26         15053              LMS,WA
             Oct 19        14000+
             Oct  4                                                               13182              MF,WA
 2:06 PM     Sep 19                                                               12502              LMS
             Sep  9        12533                      146    113  1066 63         11208              MF
             Sep  7                                                               10000+
             Aug 22        10001                      145     88   725             9043
             Aug  7                                                                8000
             Jul 27         7808                      106     56   403             7243
             Jul 26                                                                6947
             Jul  8 10000+                                                         6000+
             May 20  7231   4985
             May 10  5964   3969     4264      1002
             Apr 27  5041   3281                                             912
 1:37 PM PST Mar 30  3577   2221     2365 553
11:20 PM PST Mar 24  3000+  1910     2056 796   159
             Mar  7  2144   1323
             Feb 12  1000+
             Feb  8   900+
             Jan 31   617
             Jan 25   270
             Jan 10     0

Legenda:

  • Comma pp. Comma pages: pages which include a comma, a statistically useful way of finding "real" articles.
  • 150+ etc. 150+ characters: pages with at least 150 characters.
  • Wkpdns Wikipedians' pages and subpages: calculated from a list of those signing their contributions. Any page with one of those names gets excluded from the count as a Wikipedian.
  • Wkpd Pages about Wikipedia: contain "ikipedia" in title.
  • Talk /Talk pages.
  • Lists 27 Biographical Listing indexes (main index+A-Z); 36 Complete list of encyclopedia topics pages and subpages (0-9,A-Z).
  • RDR #REDIRECT pages.
  • MF: Malcolm Farmer
  • LMS: Larry Sanger
  • WA: Wikipedia:Announcements