Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia/2002 archived data

This is an historical dataset for the size of Wikipedia, in its original tabular presentation, archived from Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia, which now contains the most up-to-date data in a simpler format.

The figures below are for the year 2002:

key:

est: estimate
mpacIII: main page article count from the Phase III software
mpacII: main page article count from the Phase II software
spII: stats page article count from the Phase II software
all recent dates should be in Wikipedia server time, not user's local time

Note: The phase III software appears to give the same figure for pages on the main page and the stats pages: the phase II software used two different bases for the estimates, so the difference matters.

Date         Source      est    spII      mpacII   mpacIII
September 21                                       44920
September 17                                       43962
September 16                                       43762
September 10                                       42268
September 9                                        42021
September 7                                        41559
September 5                                        41141
September 4                                        40934
September 3                                        40718
August 31                                          40093
August 22                                          38780
August 14                                          37508
August 12    obs.                                  37259
May 17       WA                ~33333
April 3      WA                ~32000
Mar 28       WA                ~30000

Feb 4        WA                           ~23000
Jan 9        LMS,MF    ~20000