Other years: 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - current - 2001-2006 panorama

Article count, monthly totals edit

The table below shows the article count for the first day of each month for the currently functioning Wikipedia projects.

Individual years: 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - current

Language Jan. 1 2002 Feb. 1 2002 Mar. 1 2002 Apr. 1 2002 May 1 2002 June 1 2002 July 1 2002 Aug. 1 2002 Sept. 1 2002 Oct. 1 2002 Nov. 1 2002 Dec. 1 2002 Jan. 1 2003
Afrikaans (af) 11 11 12 12 12 12 12 12 62 70 80 86 88
Basque (eu) 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 7 14 18 18
Bosnian (bs) - - - - - - - - - - - - 15
Catalan (ca) 6 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 10 17 17 17
Chinese (zh) - - - - - - - - - - 2 75 108
Czech (cs) - - - - - - - - - - - 3 16
Danish (da) - - 2 10 12 29 33 34 73 161 270 371 635
Dutch (nl) 185 289 428 958 1200 1300 1400 1500 2100 2400 3000 3700 4200
English (en) 17000 18000 27000 29000 31000 33000 36000 38000 43000 53000 90000 96000 100000
Esperanto (eo) 77 152 375 975 1500 2300 2600 3100 3500 3800 4100 4300 4500
Estonian (et) - - - - - - - - 4 8 20 51 140
Finnish (fi) - - - - - - - - - 4 4 5 5
French (fr) 19 34 160 326 414 598 871 1400 2000 2500 2900 3500 4000
Frisian (fy) - - - - - - - - - 12 13 13 13
German (de) 955 1000 1200 1300 2000 3000 3800 4700 5300 6700 7500 8700 9800
Italian (it) 1 1 1 2 3 4 32 39 46 48 50 198 539
Japanese (ja) - - - - - - - - - 12 13 32 37
Korean (ko) - - - - - - - - - - 12 16 21
Latin (la) - - - - - 5 6 6 6 6 6 8 8
Malayalam (ml) - - - - - - - - - - - - 3
Norwegian (no) 36 36 199 446 458 464 472 477 479 481 482 489 489
Polish (pl) 427 692 961 1400 1800 2600 3000 3700 4300 5500 6200 6400 7000
Portuguese (pt) 159 162 167 173 174 188 212 224 233 236 255 270 301
Russian (ru) - - - - - - - - - - - 6 46
Simple English (simple) 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2
Spanish (es) 217 671 1300 1400 1400 1600 1600 1600 1600 1700 2000 2300 2500
Swedish (sv) 136 141 143 150 150 152 203 238 298 316 379 1800 4500
Turkish (tr) - - - - - - - - - - - - 1
All Wikipedias 19234 21204 31963 36167 40138 45267 50256 55045 63016 76972 117318 128359 139002

Article count, monthly change edit

The following table shows the net monthly growth or decline of each Wikipedia project, by setting out the number of new articles, minus deletions, since the previous monthly count.

Individual years: 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 -2005 - 2006 - current

New articles per month edit

Language January February March April May June July August September October November December 2002
Afrikaans 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 50 8 10 6 2 77
Basque 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 4 0 14
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 15
Catalan 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 0 0 11
Chinese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 73 33 108
Czech 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 13 16
Danish 0 2 8 2 17 4 1 39 88 109 101 264 635
Dutch 104 139 530 242 100 100 100 600 300 600 700 500 4015
English 1000 9000 2000 2000 2000 3000 2000 5000 10000 37000 6000 4000 83000
Esperanto 75 223 600 525 800 300 500 400 300 300 200 200 4423
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 12 31 89 140
Finnish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 1 0 5
French 15 126 166 88 184 273 529 600 500 400 600 500 3981
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 1 0 0 13
German 45 200 100 700 1000 800 900 600 1400 800 1200 1100 8845
Italian 0 0 1 1 1 28 7 7 2 2 148 341 538
Japanese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 1 19 5 37
Korean 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 4 5 21
Latin 0 0 0 0 5 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 8
Malayalam 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3
Norwegian 0 163 247 12 6 8 5 2 2 1 7 0 453
Polish 265 269 439 400 800 400 700 600 1200 700 200 600 6573
Portuguese 3 5 6 1 14 24 12 9 3 19 15 31 142
Russian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 40 46
Simple English 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Spanish 454 629 100 0 200 0 0 0 100 300 300 200 2283
Swedish 5 2 7 0 2 51 35 60 18 63 1421 2700 4364
Turkish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
All Wikipedias 1970 10757 4196 3969 5112 4985 4788 7932 13868 40237 10940 10379 119133