-There are more than 75,000 active
contributors
-Wikipedia is in more than 250 languages
-All the wikipedias combined have a total of more
than 1.74 billion words in 7.5 million
articles in approximately.
-The English
Wikipedia alone has over 946 million
words, over 25 times as many as the next largest English-language
encyclopedia, Encyclopædia Britannica, and more than
the enormous 119-volume Spanish-language Enciclopedia
universal ilustrada europeo-americana.
- Currently 2,273,186 articles in the English Wikipedia (08/03/08)
|
Date |
Article Count |
Increase
during |
%
Increase during |
Average Increase per Day |
|
2002-01-01 |
19,700 |
19,700 |
∞ |
54 |
|
2003-01-01 |
96,500 |
76,800 |
390% |
210 |
|
2004-01-01 |
188,800 |
92,300 |
96% |
253 |
|
2005-01-01 |
438,500 |
249,700 |
132% |
682 |
|
2006-01-01 |
895,000 |
456,500 |
104% |
1251 |
|
2007-01-01 |
1,560,000 |
665,000 |
74% |
1822 |
|
2008-01-01 |
2,153,000 |
593,000 |
38% |
1625 |
