Wikipedia.org articles by language 2024

As of December 2023, the English subdomain of Wikipedia had around 6.91 million articles published, being the largest subdomain of the website by number of entries and registered active users. German and French ranked third and fourth, with over 29.6 million and 26.5 million entries. Being the only Asian language figuring among the top 10, Cebuano was the language with the second-most articles on the portal, amassing around 6.11 million entries. However, while most Wikipedia articles in English and other European languages are written by humans, entries in Cebuano are reportedly mostly generated by bots.

Number of published articles on Wikipedia.org as of December 2024, by language

Characteristic	Number of published articles
English	6,919,531
Cebuano	6,116,874
German	2,965,075
French	2,650,874
Swedish	2,598,475
Dutch	2,173,207
Russian	2,013,190
Spanish	1,993,410
Italian	1,894,012
Polish	1,637,730
Egyptian Arabic	1,625,679
Chinese	1,453,081
Japanese	1,439,134
Ukrainian	1,355,544
Vietnamese	1,294,405
Waray	1,266,607
Arabic	1,246,892
Portuguese	1,139,305
Persian	1,021,143
Catalan	764,249
Indonesian	712,003
Serbian	698,219
Korean	691,391
Norwegian	639,491
Turkish	624,847

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2024

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2024

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The source states that statistics are updated nine times a day. Therefore, the date of release is the date of extraction, but most current figures might differ.

The term "article" refers to a page containing an encyclopedia entry, while pages encompass all material available on the website, including discussions, documentation and special pages.

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