Wikimedia statistics

Our largest project by far is Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Started in January 2001, it celebrated one million articles in over 100 languages in September 2004. By August 2005, Wikipedia has become one of the 50 most popular websites in the world (source: Alexa Internet analysis of Wikipedia traffic).

The Wikimedia servers in Florida, Amsterdam and Paris have to deal with up to 2800 requests per second and 200 mbps of traffic. The server load doubles every three or four months.

You can get access statistics for all our 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:

• Statistics directory on Meta-Wiki, a community-maintained list of links to statistical analysis