[Wikipedia-l] Worldwide wiki statistics

Sat Aug 2 18:01:34 UTC 2003

I just updated the BiggestWiki statistics on the Meatball Wiki,
http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?BiggestWiki

The German Wikipedia is now the world's 3rd biggest wiki.  With 25507
articles, it just grew past Ward Cunningham's c2.com, the world's
first wiki.

There is always an uncertainty in comparing numbers.  There is no
implication that bigger is better, and this list doesn't compare
quality or purpose.  Ward's wiki doesn't support any comma count, but
instead the total number of pages is used for this site, an unfair
advantage that is allowed out of respect for the elderly.  :-)

Wikipedia accounts for 13 of the world's 25 biggest wiki websites,
but only two of the six biggest.  The other four are: susning.nu (2),
c2.com (4), Twiki (5), and Enciclopedia Libre (6).  Positions 7-13
are held by a strongly growing field of Wikipedias.  The Chinese
Wikipedia is new on the list at position 23, having 1504 articles.

For more detail on the size of Wikipedia websites, see
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Multilingual_statistics

-- 
  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
  Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se/