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Among [[our projects]], the largest is by far [http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia], the free encyclopedia. Started in January 2001, it reached three million articles in over 125 languages in early 2006.
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.


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 to deal with over 12000 page requests per second, 4000 of which are page requests, and 200 Mbps of traffic.
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&mdashand serve up content at up to 200Mbps.


You can access statistics for all projects from the [http://www2.knams.wikimedia.org/logwood/logwood.php project's statistics page] (select project on the right) or view the [http://www2.knams.wikimedia.org/country-stats/ usage per country and per project].
You can access statistics for all projects from the [http://www2.knams.wikimedia.org/logwood/logwood.php project's statistics page] (select project on the right) or view the [http://www2.knams.wikimedia.org/country-stats/ usage per country and per project].

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Among our projects, the largest is Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Started in January 2001, it reached three million articles in over 125 languages in early 2006.

As of May 2006, Wikipedia has become one of the 20 most popular websites in the world (source: 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&mdashand serve up content at up to 200Mbps.

You can access statistics for all projects from the project's statistics page (select project on the right) or view the usage per country and per project.

The Wikistats project by Erik Zachte aims to provide in-depth statistical analysis of all Wikimedia projects. Wikistats are currently available for Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikinews, Wikibooks and Wikimedia Commons. See also the statistics directory on Meta-Wiki, a community-maintained list of links to related statistical analysis.