:Among [[our projects]], the largest is [http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia], the free encyclopedia. Started in January 2001, it reached three million articles in over 125 languages in early 2006.-->
2006年5月現在、ウィキペディアは世界で最も利用されるサイト20の内のひとつとなっていました(出典:[http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=2y&size=large&compare_sites=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikipedia.org%2F#graph Alexa Internet analysis of Wikipedia traffic])。フロリダ、アムステルダム、パリに設置されているウィキメディアのサーバーは、毎日そのピーク時には毎秒1万4,000リクエスト—およそ毎秒4,300ページ—を受け、転送量は200Mbpsにもなります。
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:As of May 2006, Wikipedia has become one of the 20 most popular websites in the world (source: [http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=2y&size=large&compare_sites=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikipedia.org%2F#graph Alexa Internet analysis of Wikipedia traffic]); and the Wikimedia servers in Florida, Amsterdam and Paris have daily peaks above 14 000 requests per second -- approximately 4,300 pages per second -- and serve up content at up to 200Mbps.-->
:The Wikistats project by [[w:en:User:Erik Zachte|Erik Zachte]] aims to provide in-depth statistical analysis of all Wikimedia projects. These stats are temporarily disabled. See also the [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Statistics statistics directory] on Meta-Wiki, a community-maintained list of links to related statistical analysis.-->