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 1254.6 ( = 20.1 × 62.42).

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 7.08 12,938 150,452 27,710 Afrikaans Afrikaans af 38.04 116,992 2,670,125 394,257 Alemannic Alemannisch als 28.87 30,460 1,053,439 73,773 Amharic አማርኛ am 33.77 15,334 380,274 46,492 Aragonese Aragonés an 74.17 46,154 2,133,416 152,388 Arabic العربية ar 269.93 1,234,373 66,915,532 8,434,503 Moroccan Arabic داريجة ary 182.92 10,063 360,191 70,107 Egyptian Arabic مصرى arz 0.45 1,623,675 10,177,796 2,123,617 Assamese অসমীয়া as 163.43 13,393 421,715 94,399 Asturian Asturianu ast 10.19 136,184 4,191,162 240,263 Kotava Kotava avk 0.19 29,169 144,387 35,534 Azerbaijani Azərbaycanca az 45.5 200,186 7,632,219 569,061 South Azerbaijani تۆرکجه azb 5.1 243,522 1,559,649 577,406 Bashkir Башҡорт ba 24.38 63,663 1,273,129 182,761 Balinese Bali ban 3.69 23,907 184,495 47,133 Bavarian Boarisch bar 71.28 27,166 842,215 110,090 Samogitian Žemaitėška bat-smg 6.55 17,229 360,745 29,928 Central Bicolano Bikol bcl 15.42 17,291 274,946 44,657 Belarusian Беларуская be 23.6 242,840 4,761,466 692,806 Belarusian (Taraškievica) Беларуская (тарашкевіца) be-tarask 35.65 86,801 2,508,678 250,597 Bulgarian Български bg 28.46 298,867 12,233,439 672,751 Bengali বাংলা bn 300.93 153,353 7,399,144 1,244,268 Bishnupriya Manipuri বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী bpy 32.85 25,087 893,888 63,373 Breton Brezhoneg br 9.06 86,416 2,093,857 157,853 Bosnian Bosanski bs 86.18 93,523 3,607,534 372,520 Buginese Basa Ugi bug 0.73 15,838 202,575 20,114 Catalan Català ca 40.03 752,844 33,515,138 1,881,442 Chechen Нохчийн ce 8.36 601,354 10,365,751 1,190,728 Min Dong Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄ cdo 3.11 16,520 101,443 33,168 Cebuano Sinugboanong Binisaya ceb 2.18 6,117,331 35,041,250 11,228,896 Sorani کوردی ckb 48.9 55,605 1,215,328 221,665 Crimean Tatar Qırımtatarca crh 3.22 28,138 222,984 52,698 Czech Čeština cs 50.84 547,273 23,929,065 1,535,931 Chuvash Чăваш cv 7.83 56,074 830,051 114,300 Welsh Cymraeg cy 13.51 280,525 12,634,749 481,914 Danish Dansk da 57.5 300,129 11,746,468 946,007 German Deutsch de 93.61 2,914,629 243,911,608 8,031,715 Zazaki Zazaki diq 2.15 41,832 529,375 63,019 Greek Ελληνικά el 56.15 235,645 10,577,682 685,002 Emilian-Romagnol Emiliàn e rumagnòl eml 12.96 13,053 156,823 35,365 English English en 1254.62 6,829,800 1,221,896,419 60,787,826 Esperanto Esperanto eo 17.13 354,190 8,737,346 796,930 Spanish Español es 198.13 1,956,378 160,005,780 8,184,590 Estonian Eesti et 21.22 245,445 6,653,712 578,972 Basque Euskara eu 14.3 433,270 9,790,067 941,399 Persian فارسی fa 151.49 1,003,836 39,546,568 5,690,739 Finnish Suomi fi 38.49 573,802 22,364,391 1,493,931 Faroese Føroyskt fo 33.59 14,079 379,611 40,846 French Français fr 263.18 2,615,191 215,083,737 13,075,905 North Frisian Nordfriisk frr 12.47 18,977 260,639 47,623 West Frisian Frysk fy 29.71 53,736 1,153,838 164,238 Irish Gaeilge ga 6.37 60,286 1,217,633 104,962 Scottish Gaelic Gàidhlig gd 18.69 15,934 575,912 32,228 Galician Galego gl 27.95 210,599 6,739,899 519,812 Gorontalo Hulontalo gor 0.75 14,764 56,223 22,933 Gujarati ગુજરાતી gu 70.04 30,400 865,001 128,440 Hausa Hausa / هَوُسَ ha 2.13 45,495 430,556 72,829 Fiji Hindi Fiji Hindi hif 73.54 11,051 310,772 48,484 Hebrew עברית he 269.74 355,301 38,687,909 1,506,986 Hindi हिन्दी hi 237.95 161,689 6,113,767 1,321,083 Croatian Hrvatski hr 18.72 220,729 6,935,023 469,085 Upper Sorbian Hornjoserbsce hsb 26.06 13,935 383,211 35,625 Haitian Krèyol ayisyen ht 0.72 69,690 847,644 88,781 Hungarian Magyar hu 60.59 542,410 27,115,590 1,552,796 Armenian Հայերեն hy 63.09 309,830 9,969,704 1,143,138 Interlingua Interlingua ia 3.95 29,603 668,114 44,836 Indonesian Bahasa Indonesia id 138.11 694,577 25,749,724 3,851,384 Ilokano Ilokano ilo 72.8 15,380 400,762 70,366 Ido Ido io 2.47 48,216 1,048,240 67,429 Icelandic Íslenska is 31.2 58,618 1,860,503 152,290 Italian Italiano it 188.4 1,866,259 139,255,029 8,009,697 Japanese 日本語 ja 90.62 1,417,399 100,362,739 4,166,533 Javanese Basa Jawa jv 20.56 73,451 1,674,071 183,816 Georgian ქართული ka 31.39 172,896 4,650,332 486,052 Kazakh Қазақша kk 14.9 236,606 3,338,561 634,920 Kannada ಕನ್ನಡ kn 98.82 32,080 1,223,657 139,916 Korean 한국어 ko 168.06 670,944 37,193,939 3,236,874 Kurdish Kurdî ku 32.61 75,631 1,710,942 236,057 Kirghiz Кыргызча ky 0.67 79,171 474,916 110,286 Latin Latina la 14.56 139,015 3,826,655 283,358 Luxembourgish Lëtzebuergesch lb 25.3 63,409 2,517,246 138,111 Limburgish Limburgs li 84.66 14,952 464,127 67,363 Ligurian Lìgure lij 18.34 11,252 246,370 27,287 Ladin Ladin lld 0.002 180,741 237,965 187,560 Lombard Lumbaart lmo 8.59 74,044 1,272,927 148,048 Lithuanian Lietuvių lt 29.33 216,712 7,273,988 535,006 Latvian Latviešu lv 72.68 127,729 4,058,089 516,055 Maithili मैथिली mai 25.39 14,106 261,529 42,893 Banyumasan Basa Banyumasan map-bms 10.11 13,934 220,218 30,394 Malagasy Malagasy mg 10.6 97,291 1,076,135 249,945 Meadow Mari Олык Марий (Olyk Marij) mhr 17.76 11,390 196,833 30,190 Minangkabau Bahaso Minangkabau min 7.658 227,583 3,152,684 471,023 Macedonian Македонски mk 77.74 144,249 5,196,434 562,807 Malayalam മലയാളം ml 199.35 85,711 3,997,265 523,765 Mongolian Монгол mn 90.43 23,613 778,287 106,791 Meitei ꯃꯤꯇꯩꯂꯣꯟ mni 1.36 10,424 57,296 17,064 Marathi मराठी mr 38.74 96,664 2,420,389 313,031 Hill Mari Кырык Мары (Kyryk Mary) mrj 4.5 10,432 105,824 20,067 Malay Bahasa Melayu ms 20.33 376,385 6,195,160 1,087,449 Burmese language မြန်မာဘာသာ my 5.36 107,766 833,153 242,396 Mazandarani مَزِروني mzn 5.67 20,065 195,794 42,253 Neapolitan Nnapulitano nap 10.52 14,883 668,108 24,041 Low Saxon Plattdüütsch nds 6.56 84,879 1,016,819 175,068 Nepali नेपाली ne 66.4 31,975 1,219,066 110,377 Newari नेवारी new 8.61 72,339 867,222 164,879 Dutch Nederlands nl 19.09 2,159,363 67,445,233 4,632,232 Norwegian (Nynorsk) Nynorsk nn 15.01 169,672 3,544,056 386,874 Norwegian (Bokmål) Norsk (Bokmål) no 47.74 630,337 24,438,201 1,818,252 Navajo Diné bizaad nv 3.44 22,642 307,495 37,270 Occitan Occitan oc 10.1 89,791 2,427,141 163,956 Oriya ଓଡ଼ିଆ or 77.15 18,141 532,808 79,812 Ossetian Иронау os 59.06 18,434 558,830 67,769 Punjabi ਪੰਜਾਬੀ pa 21.46 54,297 754,848 175,636 Polish Polski pl 33.84 1,617,479 73,684,808 3,736,053 Piedmontese Piemontèis pms 2.24 68,851 871,329 104,533 Western Panjabi شاہ مکھی پنجابی pnb 3.35 72,596 662,452 131,928 Pashto پښتو ps 29.85 19,190 322,640 66,955 Portuguese Português pt 196.75 1,125,952 67,858,992 5,705,558 Quechua Runa Simi qu 22.89 24,037 672,197 57,744 Romanian Română ro 153.11 453,598 16,259,453 2,770,415 Russian Русский ru 157.27 1,982,206 137,830,654 7,953,683 Sanskrit संस्कृतम् sa 176.06 12,186 486,113 76,207 Sakha Саха тыла sah 30.34 17,579 407,318 52,262 Sicilian Sicilianu scn 16.78 26,279 738,994 55,882 Scots Scots sco 57.36 34,746 887,467 138,820 Sindhi سنڌي، سندھی ، सिन्ध sd 27.37 17,371 271,140 60,183 Serbo-Croatian Srpskohrvatski / Српскохрватски sh 748.83 459,627 41,856,143 4,653,369 Shan လိၵ်ႈတႆး shn 3.66 13,600 63,945 32,014 Sinhalese සිංහල si 156.51 20,732 672,377 138,409 Simple English Simple English simple 59.5 252,356 9,550,174 824,188 Slovak Slovenčina sk 23.17 248,924 7,835,081 572,909 Slovenian Slovenščina sl 31.33 185,433 6,214,226 471,290 Albanian Shqip sq 37.02 97,886 2,662,982 296,669 Serbian Српски sr 167.5 689,910 27,796,964 4,132,844 Sundanese Basa Sunda su 2.38 61,721 666,526 98,319 Swedish Svenska sv 17.52 2,585,988 54,726,131 6,241,812 Swahili Kiswahili sw 10.24 80,871 1,334,282 174,466 Silesian Ślůnsko szl 0.37 58,087 369,672 73,983 Tamil தமிழ் ta 37.54 165,667 3,975,728 539,632 Telugu తెలుగు te 86.79 95,808 4,176,735 356,618 Tajik Тоҷикӣ tg 10.5 112,903 1,400,685 275,061 Thai ไทย th 333.35 164,621 11,521,951 1,088,398 Tagalog Tagalog tl 147.05 47,363 2,109,637 241,818 Turkish Türkçe tr 166.11 610,168 32,909,671 2,974,328 Tatar Татарча tt 1.72 501,462 4,154,776 787,805 Ukrainian Українська uk 58.12 1,325,685 42,600,187 4,673,161 Urdu اردو ur 105.6 206,604 6,232,417 1,097,573 Uzbek O‘zbek uz 34.42 261,900 4,336,133 999,578 Venetian Vèneto vec 9.03 69,291 1,169,455 141,806 Vietnamese Tiếng Việt vi 723.71 1,293,568 71,360,807 19,471,265 Volapük Volapük vo 214.24 36,936 3,299,697 153,566 Walloon Walon wa 25.81 12,353 405,126 29,202 Waray-Waray Winaray war 4.25 1,266,456 7,601,472 2,871,208 Wu 吴语 wuu 0.69 43,741 317,163 59,476 Mingrelian მარგალური (Margaluri) xmf 4.16 20,935 222,038 38,789 Yiddish ייִדיש yi 46.24 15,474 593,030 44,203 Yoruba Yorùbá yo 5.01 34,088 581,912 58,219 Chinese 中文 zh 209.73 1,422,117 82,558,536 7,720,016 Classical Chinese 古文 / 文言文 zh-classical 186.84 13,452 406,033 108,507 Min Nan Bân-lâm-gú zh-min-nan 6.48 433,078 3,208,404 1,069,835 Cantonese 粵語 zh-yue 10.43 140,725 2,137,635 315,303 Zulu isiZulu zu 6.36 11,359 107,512 25,237 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	1255	94	263	34	91	188	19	197	198	157	18	210	48	38	40	58	166	153	214	51	61	17	23	58	138	270	270	168	29	168
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

See also

• Efficiency

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