Wikipedia article depth

The depth or editing depth of Wikipedia is one of several possible rough indicators of the encyclopedia's collaborative quality, showing how frequently its articles are updated.

It does not refer to academic quality, which cannot be computed, but to Wikipedian quality, i.e. the depth of collaborativeness—a descriptor that is highly relevant for a Wikipedia.

Definition

The formula assumes that a relatively high number of page edits and the presence of support pages means articles have been updated. And the latter support pages are assumed to be a more important factor.

In the list of Wikipedias, depth is currently defined as:

${\text{Depth}}={\frac {\text{Edits}}{\text{Articles}}}\cdot {\frac {\text{Non-Articles}}{\text{Articles}}}\cdot \left(1-{\frac {\text{Articles}}{\text{Total}}}\right)$

The depth can be simplified to the equivalent formula below:

${\text{Depth}}={\frac {\text{Edits}}{\text{Total}}}\cdot \left({\frac {\text{Non-Articles}}{\text{Articles}}}\right)^{2}$

Non-Articles are user pages, redirects, images, "project" pages, categories, templates, and all talk pages. Total is simply Non-Articles + Articles.

The English Wikipedia has the most depth, at 1247.5 ( = 20.09 × 62.1).

Among editions with at least 10,000 articles, the Ladin wikipedia has the least depth, at 0.002 ( = 1.27 × 0.001).

Background

The measurement of depth was introduced after some limitations of the classic measurement of article count were realized. This insight is similar to the various suggestions to redefine the ordering of Wikipedias that appear on the international front page www.wikipedia.org. See Top Ten Wikipedias and Talk:Www.wikipedia.org portal.

Still in early February 2006 the list of Wikipedias only listed the article count. But on February 10, 2006, this changed into a table format that also listed the total edit count, number of users and admins.

The depth column first appeared on November 29, 2006. The initial definition was edits/articles, giving the English Wikipedia a value of 62. This definition changed already the next day to (Edits/Articles) × (Non-Articles/Articles), giving the English Wikipedia a value of 209. The next definition change occurred on October 9, 2007, when the Stub-ratio factor was appended. The stub ratio is (1-(Articles/Total)). The new value for the English Wikipedia was 288. The formula changed again on October 17, October 28, and finally on April 11, 2008.

The discussion of the introduction of the depth parameter is found in Talk:List of Wikipedias/Archive 4. Early on, there were discussions of whether depth implies quality. The changes in October 2007 were discussed in Talk:List of Wikipedias/Archive 5#Depth 2.0.

10,000+ articles

The table shows the list of Wikipedias with over 10,000 articles. It can be sorted by Depth.
Data on this page is automatically updated every day ().

N.B.: Default sorting is by language code, but it is possible to sort the table by any column.

No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 No.

Language Language (local) Wiki Depth Articles Edits Total Pages Acehnese Acehnese ace 7.07 12,937 150,375 27,701 Afrikaans Afrikaans af 38.67 115,911 2,661,898 392,779 Alemannic Alemannisch als 28.43 30,363 1,049,332 73,092 Amharic አማርኛ am 33.82 15,309 379,781 46,445 Aragonese Aragonés an 73.58 45,934 2,125,859 150,916 Arabic العربية ar 269.09 1,231,607 66,643,278 8,407,594 Moroccan Arabic داريجة ary 179.5 10,022 356,743 69,128 Egyptian Arabic مصرى arz 0.44 1,623,074 10,022,557 2,119,799 Assamese অসমীয়া as 162.81 13,349 419,498 93,960 Asturian Asturianu ast 10.37 134,844 4,179,438 238,574 Kotava Kotava avk 0.19 29,157 144,303 35,512 Azerbaijani Azərbaycanca az 44.8 199,617 7,581,405 564,015 South Azerbaijani تۆرکجه azb 5.1 243,499 1,558,827 577,361 Bashkir Башҡорт ba 24.35 63,594 1,271,341 182,481 Balinese Bali ban 3.77 23,380 181,428 46,303 Bavarian Boarisch bar 71.22 27,164 841,806 110,050 Samogitian Žemaitėška bat-smg 6.55 17,225 360,690 29,921 Central Bicolano Bikol bcl 15.69 17,126 274,018 44,442 Belarusian Беларуская be 23.49 241,918 4,710,797 691,014 Belarusian (Taraškievica) Беларуская (тарашкевіца) be-tarask 35.57 86,370 2,499,706 248,930 Bulgarian Български bg 28.34 298,119 12,191,948 670,186 Bengali বাংলা bn 303.72 151,831 7,342,584 1,238,609 Bishnupriya Manipuri বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী bpy 32.85 25,087 893,828 63,372 Breton Brezhoneg br 9.3 86,247 2,089,467 158,747 Bosnian Bosanski bs 85.86 93,397 3,585,909 372,210 Buginese Basa Ugi bug 0.73 15,838 202,514 20,101 Catalan Català ca 40 750,459 33,379,399 1,875,531 Chechen Нохчийн ce 8.34 601,327 10,342,116 1,190,637 Min Dong Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄ cdo 3.11 16,510 101,411 33,153 Cebuano Sinugboanong Binisaya ceb 2.18 6,118,781 35,037,193 11,228,665 Sorani کوردی ckb 49.46 55,002 1,207,584 220,180 Crimean Tatar Qırımtatarca crh 2.98 28,026 217,306 51,580 Czech Čeština cs 50.81 545,442 23,821,681 1,531,165 Chuvash Чăваш cv 8.95 52,808 820,792 110,892 Welsh Cymraeg cy 13.32 280,416 12,557,575 480,633 Danish Dansk da 57.59 299,374 11,723,356 944,124 German Deutsch de 93.55 2,904,604 242,839,456 8,005,619 Zazaki Zazaki diq 2.15 41,824 527,902 63,004 Greek Ελληνικά el 56.14 234,555 10,516,847 682,161 Emilian-Romagnol Emiliàn e rumagnòl eml 12.95 13,053 156,765 35,363 English English en 1247.55 6,817,477 1,216,268,106 60,540,517 Esperanto Esperanto eo 17.06 352,801 8,693,056 792,807 Spanish Español es 198.07 1,948,866 159,277,290 8,155,150 Estonian Eesti et 21.2 244,812 6,631,783 577,418 Basque Euskara eu 14.15 431,425 9,656,380 936,971 Persian فارسی fa 151.17 1,000,669 39,315,608 5,674,984 Finnish Suomi fi 38.57 571,910 22,297,485 1,490,031 Faroese Føroyskt fo 33.6 14,071 379,380 40,830 French Français fr 262.6 2,607,944 214,140,150 13,034,598 North Frisian Nordfriisk frr 12.44 18,949 259,974 47,516 West Frisian Frysk fy 29.8 53,524 1,151,128 163,701 Irish Gaeilge ga 6.3 60,183 1,211,615 104,541 Scottish Gaelic Gàidhlig gd 18.61 15,957 575,530 32,251 Galician Galego gl 29.17 206,259 6,711,763 514,771 Gorontalo Hulontalo gor 0.75 14,766 56,151 22,925 Gujarati ગુજરાતી gu 69.67 30,392 863,751 128,073 Hausa Hausa / هَوُسَ ha 2.1 44,691 414,636 71,633 Fiji Hindi Fiji Hindi hif 73.69 10,985 309,883 48,158 Hebrew עברית he 269.31 353,510 38,461,877 1,498,663 Hindi हिन्दी hi 236.94 161,459 6,096,290 1,316,312 Croatian Hrvatski hr 18.67 220,115 6,905,253 467,618 Upper Sorbian Hornjoserbsce hsb 26.06 13,934 383,093 35,624 Haitian Krèyol ayisyen ht 0.65 69,608 844,845 87,753 Hungarian Magyar hu 60.48 541,405 27,029,705 1,549,489 Armenian Հայերեն hy 62.98 308,037 9,903,656 1,135,906 Interlingua Interlingua ia 3.94 29,559 667,527 44,760 Indonesian Bahasa Indonesia id 137.94 691,658 25,600,966 3,836,235 Ilokano Ilokano ilo 72.78 15,378 400,631 70,357 Ido Ido io 2.52 47,676 1,042,021 66,839 Icelandic Íslenska is 31.2 58,448 1,855,656 151,836 Italian Italiano it 187.93 1,861,022 138,710,601 7,980,518 Japanese 日本語 ja 90.53 1,413,356 99,953,896 4,155,275 Javanese Basa Jawa jv 20.53 73,427 1,672,402 183,691 Georgian ქართული ka 31.5 172,105 4,636,578 484,247 Kazakh Қазақша kk 14.72 236,602 3,316,663 633,297 Kannada ಕನ್ನಡ kn 100.36 31,860 1,219,363 140,019 Korean 한국어 ko 166.83 666,680 36,747,916 3,212,803 Kurdish Kurdî ku 29.96 75,478 1,672,787 227,990 Kirghiz Кыргызча ky 0.66 79,217 472,769 110,249 Latin Latina la 14.47 138,921 3,819,469 282,718 Luxembourgish Lëtzebuergesch lb 25.26 63,326 2,510,934 137,917 Limburgish Limburgs li 85.3 14,892 463,775 67,277 Ligurian Lìgure lij 18.28 11,241 245,946 27,234 Ladin Ladin lld 0.002 180,708 237,710 187,530 Lombard Lumbaart lmo 8.58 73,903 1,270,522 147,716 Lithuanian Lietuvių lt 29.25 216,355 7,247,283 533,992 Latvian Latviešu lv 72.95 126,976 4,040,601 513,630 Maithili मैथिली mai 25.2 14,101 261,141 42,739 Banyumasan Basa Banyumasan map-bms 10.12 13,920 220,099 30,373 Malagasy Malagasy mg 10.6 97,129 1,073,970 249,566 Meadow Mari Олык Марий (Olyk Marij) mhr 17.64 11,374 196,548 30,057 Minangkabau Bahaso Minangkabau min 7.655 227,524 3,151,904 470,820 Macedonian Македонски mk 78.07 143,595 5,184,224 560,961 Malayalam മലയാളം ml 199.02 85,603 3,990,412 522,668 Mongolian Монгол mn 91.07 23,439 774,339 106,323 Meitei ꯃꯤꯇꯩꯂꯣꯟ mni 1.31 10,422 55,141 17,061 Marathi मराठी mr 38.91 96,158 2,406,917 312,172 Hill Mari Кырык Мары (Kyryk Mary) mrj 4.45 10,432 105,732 19,997 Malay Bahasa Melayu ms 20.68 372,671 6,166,080 1,082,821 Burmese language မြန်မာဘာသာ my 5.31 107,627 828,921 241,442 Mazandarani مَزِروني mzn 5.98 19,310 192,162 41,165 Neapolitan Nnapulitano nap 10.55 14,860 668,002 24,010 Low Saxon Plattdüütsch nds 6.36 84,683 1,013,009 172,949 Nepali नेपाली ne 60.66 33,055 1,207,366 111,182 Newari नेवारी new 8.59 72,341 866,897 164,807 Dutch Nederlands nl 19.05 2,157,063 67,280,909 4,625,997 Norwegian (Nynorsk) Nynorsk nn 15.02 169,368 3,536,446 386,299 Norwegian (Bokmål) Norsk (Bokmål) no 47.89 627,475 24,368,898 1,811,337 Navajo Diné bizaad nv 3.44 22,641 307,421 37,269 Occitan Occitan oc 10.1 89,655 2,423,978 163,686 Oriya ଓଡ଼ିଆ or 77.87 17,993 530,297 79,449 Ossetian Иронау os 59.13 18,310 556,932 67,228 Punjabi ਪੰਜਾਬੀ pa 21.28 54,190 750,795 174,827 Polish Polski pl 33.59 1,612,528 73,420,756 3,714,744 Piedmontese Piemontèis pms 2.24 68,813 871,048 104,473 Western Panjabi شاہ مکھی پنجابی pnb 3.32 72,573 660,981 131,614 Pashto پښتو ps 29.52 19,015 317,489 66,190 Portuguese Português pt 196.34 1,123,368 67,666,349 5,686,488 Quechua Runa Simi qu 22.74 24,071 671,807 57,713 Romanian Română ro 157.83 445,532 16,169,871 2,756,605 Russian Русский ru 157.85 1,976,366 137,164,864 7,957,044 Sanskrit संस्कृतम् sa 175.09 12,179 485,387 75,908 Sakha Саха тыла sah 30.59 17,444 405,914 51,962 Sicilian Sicilianu scn 16.78 26,274 738,787 55,869 Scots Scots sco 56.79 34,942 885,973 139,386 Sindhi سنڌي، سندھی ، सिन्ध sd 28.77 16,889 267,003 59,742 Serbo-Croatian Srpskohrvatski / Српскохрватски sh 749.18 459,449 41,845,679 4,652,809 Shan လိၵ်ႈတႆး shn 3.68 13,527 63,613 31,912 Sinhalese සිංහල si 149.59 20,549 660,810 133,526 Simple English Simple English simple 59.26 250,930 9,484,044 818,370 Slovak Slovenčina sk 23.1 248,598 7,817,266 571,761 Slovenian Slovenščina sl 31.28 184,890 6,195,290 469,547 Albanian Shqip sq 37.16 97,244 2,654,730 294,785 Serbian Српски sr 167.3 688,591 27,679,505 4,128,261 Sundanese Basa Sunda su 2.38 61,682 665,463 98,248 Swedish Svenska sv 17.49 2,583,481 54,565,781 6,235,567 Swahili Kiswahili sw 10.35 80,218 1,329,441 173,400 Silesian Ślůnsko szl 0.37 57,956 369,084 73,829 Tamil தமிழ் ta 34.92 165,128 3,930,248 520,129 Telugu తెలుగు te 87.91 94,546 4,146,482 353,317 Tajik Тоҷикӣ tg 10.54 112,462 1,396,649 274,230 Thai ไทย th 331.69 163,929 11,444,937 1,081,824 Tagalog Tagalog tl 147.79 47,190 2,101,881 241,745 Turkish Türkçe tr 165.88 606,280 32,529,202 2,962,946 Tatar Татарча tt 1.71 501,185 4,139,655 787,002 Ukrainian Українська uk 57.87 1,321,183 42,318,626 4,654,257 Urdu اردو ur 105.72 205,308 6,187,481 1,092,243 Uzbek O‘zbek uz 34 259,663 4,282,120 986,241 Venetian Vèneto vec 9.02 69,282 1,168,068 141,777 Vietnamese Tiếng Việt vi 723.35 1,292,993 71,273,959 19,467,304 Volapük Volapük vo 218.29 36,617 3,298,365 153,219 Walloon Walon wa 25.87 12,291 403,976 29,055 Waray-Waray Winaray war 4.25 1,266,433 7,600,551 2,871,070 Wu 吴语 wuu 0.68 43,566 315,375 59,074 Mingrelian მარგალური (Margaluri) xmf 4.11 20,884 220,054 38,609 Yiddish ייִדיש yi 46.36 15,452 592,783 44,174 Yoruba Yorùbá yo 5.03 33,996 581,093 58,110 Chinese 中文 zh 209.45 1,416,308 82,104,157 7,688,940 Classical Chinese 古文 / 文言文 zh-classical 191.88 13,231 404,844 107,809 Min Nan Bân-lâm-gú zh-min-nan 6.47 433,040 3,203,816 1,069,672 Cantonese 粵語 zh-yue 10.55 139,560 2,126,539 313,599 Zulu isiZulu zu 6.35 11,328 106,933 25,180 Language Language (local) Wiki Depth Articles Edits Total Pages

Trends

Trend of article depth.

The table shows how the depth of the largest 30 languages of Wikipedia has developed over time.

Date	en	de	fr	pl	ja	it	nl	pt	es	ru	sv	zh	no	fi	ca	uk	tr	ro	vo	cs	hu	eo	sk	da	id	he	ar	ko	lt	sr
Today	1248	94	263	34	91	188	19	196	198	158	17	209	48	39	40	58	166	158	218	51	60	17	23	58	138	269	269	167	29	167
1 July 2022	1130	93	253	33	87	179	18	182	204	154	16	206	46	39	39	55	166	146	15	47	59	16	22	60	116	260	237	154	28	157
1 Jan 2022	1094	92	246	32	86	176	17	179	207	138	14	205	46	39	37	54	175	145	14	47	59	16	21	64	103	257	231	152	27	156
1 July 2021	1072	93	242	32	85	172	17	176	210	137	12	202	46	40	36	53	199	122	14	46	59	16	21	64	103	258	227	153	26	155
1 Jan 2021	1041	94	239	31	84	168	16	175	210	136	9	201	42	40	34	49	203	120	14	45	59	16	21	63	108	259	219	151	24	157
1 July 2020	1009	94	236	30	84	169	16	172	208	136	7	198	42	40	32	44	222	118	14	47	59	17	20	64	109	259	214	152	23	157
1 Jan 2020	985	94	234	30	83	164	16	171	204	137	7	195	41	41	31	39	205	117	14	47	59	17	20	64	109	261	175	149	23	155
1 July 2019	964	94	229	30	82	160	15	166	199	135	7	188	42	42	30	38	200	114	14	46	58	17	19	64	110	260	182	150	23	151
1 Jan 2019	937	95	225	29	81	157	15	154	196	132	6	181	40	42	30	37	199	112	14	45	58	17	19	67	118	254	238	146	22	144
1 July 2018	907	94	224	28	80	155	14	150	205	134	6	175	39	42	30	38	205	110	14	42	58	17	19	67	117	247	225	110	23	141
1 Jan 2018	1011	97	222	27	80	132	14	148	204	149	6	175	38	45	31	39	221	103	15	42	59	17	19	66	125	254	219	115	23	133
1 July 2017	980	98	217	25	78	125	13	142	196	144	5	169	36	45	31	40	222	86	15	41	58	17	19	68	123	261	188	115	23	90
1 Jan 2017	953	100	213	24	77	122	13	138	191	140	5	161	36	45	31	39	229	85	15	40	58	17	19	66	107	256	218	112	22	71
1 July 2016	933	102	208	22	75	120	12	136	187	136	6	165	37	45	31	38	226	82	15	40	58	17	18	66	104	253	233	105	21	66
1 Jan 2016	910	98	205	21	72	115	11	133	198	131	9	163	35	46	31	37	240	82	15	41	59	17	18	68	84	251	223	90	21	69
1 July 2015	888	97	205	21	71	109	11	130	190	125	12	147	34	46	31	36	229	77	15	42	76	17	18	70	76	253	214	87	31	66
1 Jan 2015	887	89	193	20	69	105	9	123	176	115	11	131	32	44	31	37	210	97	15	39	97	18	19	70	65	257	214	87	31	66
1 July 2014	868	90	181	18	68	101	9	121	174	113	11	114	26	45	30	27	211	94	16	39	99	18	18	69	60	256	237	80	31	63
1 Jan 2014	824	90	172	18	66	98	10	117	172	109	11	108	28	45	27	38	214	90	15	39	100	18	18	67	56	253	248	82	31	57
1 July 2013	769	89	164	19	64	95	9	112	170	106	15	100	28	45	26	38	212	88	15	39	100	18	18	66	112	249	235	82	18	64
1 Jan 2013	731	89	165	17	61	91	18	103	175	104	38	108	28	44	24	38	214	81	15	38	99	18	15	62	88	242	243	77	17	57
1 July 2012	688	88	157	16	58	89	19	96	166	99	44	148	28	44	22	36	207	101	13	38	98	17	15	58	89	236	241	76	16	52
1 Jan 2012	648	89	151	14	56	85	18	88	158	92	50	90	29	44	20	35	207	97	12	37	92	16	24	39	72	231	230	74	17	51
1 July 2011	613	89	145	13	54	81	30	82	163	91	48	83	27	43	18	34	192	93	12	37	90	16	22	36	63	227	225	71	17	47
1 Jan 2011	572	87	140	10	51	77	29	71	179	90	46	80	25	41	17	33	185	86	11	34	86	16	20	35	61	220	208	62	17	40
1 July 2010	522	88	139	11	49	75	30	77	189	91	35	68	24	39	18	31	177	73	10	32	81	15	19	34	61	208	197	51	19	47
1 Jan 2010	478	86	128	10	46	71	27	74	141	87	31	63	23	37	17	25	159	54	9	33	71	14	16	31	42	205	167	43	19	46
1 July 2009	440	84	121	10	43	66	25	71	116	81	28	63	22	35	17	26	132	36	8	32	70	13	14	28	35	184	142	39	17	56
1 Jan 2009	413	81	115	9	41	57	23	66	94	74	24	71	20	32	17	15	95	30	8	28	64	13	10	26	30	177	117	36	15	52
1 July 2008	368	77	101	8	38	47	21	58	69	63	19	56	20	30	15	10	66	25	8	26	51	12	8	24	24	159	108	34	14	46
1 Jan 2008	302	70	79	9	33	43	20	49	51	56	15	59	18	27	14	12	43	17	3	24	39	11	7	21	20	132	107	27	12	35
1 July 2007	320	100	59	15			36			59	23		31	39										32
1 Jan 2007	224	87	45	12			32			37	19		25	34										24

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