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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[edit]

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:

The depth can be simplified to the equivalent formula below:

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 1188 ( = 19.79 × 60.02).

Among editions with at least 10,000 articles, the Ladin wikipedia has the least depth, at 0.001 ( = 1.25 × 0.001).

Background[edit]

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)).[1] 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[edit]

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 (Purge).

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

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No.
Language Language (local) Wiki Depth Articles Edits Total Pages
Acehnese Acehnese ace 6.57 12,735 145,099 26,756
Afrikaans Afrikaans af 42.68 108,260 2,573,789 380,048
Alemannic Alemannisch als 28.59 29,805 1,033,253 71,822
Amharic አማርኛ am 33.77 15,202 375,821 46,164
Aragonese Aragonés an 64.29 43,748 2,014,860 134,313
Arabic العربية ar 252.6 1,207,319 62,613,558 8,115,404
Egyptian Arabic مصرى arz 0.31 1,617,814 8,146,793 2,073,216
Assamese অসমীয়া as 169.29 11,826 367,746 86,414
Asturian Asturianu ast 10.16 132,599 3,966,673 235,632
Kotava Kotava avk 0.19 27,610 137,222 33,627
Azerbaijani Azərbaycanca az 40 194,508 7,046,762 532,952
South Azerbaijani تۆرکجه azb 5 243,019 1,545,143 575,993
Bashkir Башҡорт ba 23.06 62,957 1,241,455 177,155
Balinese Bali ban 3.82 19,267 154,660 37,913
Bavarian Boarisch bar 71.73 26,916 836,499 109,333
Samogitian Žemaitėška bat-smg 6.47 17,154 358,964 29,701
Central Bicolano Bikol bcl 21.14 13,744 249,524 38,596
Belarusian Беларуская be 23.97 231,698 4,501,503 668,973
Belarusian (Taraškievica) Беларуская (тарашкевіца) be-tarask 34.88 82,956 2,394,571 237,117
Bulgarian Български bg 27.71 291,467 11,792,388 652,370
Bengali বাংলা bn 317 138,353 6,670,957 1,169,926
Bishnupriya Manipuri বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী bpy 32.62 25,090 890,864 63,282
Breton Brezhoneg br 10.63 80,024 2,045,040 150,915
Bosnian Bosanski bs 87.48 92,072 3,510,427 372,659
Buginese Basa Ugi bug 0.73 15,825 202,092 20,096
Catalan Català ca 39.04 728,766 31,734,389 1,818,911
Chechen Нохчийн ce 8.12 599,844 10,023,434 1,188,430
Min Dong Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄ cdo 3.14 16,221 99,474 32,710
Cebuano Sinugboanong Binisaya ceb 2.17 6,123,332 35,004,086 11,226,426
Sorani کوردی ckb 51.29 49,904 1,081,022 205,876
Crimean Tatar Qırımtatarca crh 3.08 25,585 204,957 47,101
Czech Čeština cs 50.21 525,435 22,818,045 1,470,599
Chuvash Чăваш cv 8.07 51,155 792,472 103,745
Welsh Cymraeg cy 8.76 278,934 11,799,770 438,016
Danish Dansk da 58.47 291,814 11,462,314 926,019
German Deutsch de 93.05 2,806,463 232,778,734 7,744,456
Zazaki Zazaki diq 2.25 40,512 520,369 61,384
Greek Ελληνικά el 57.53 223,021 10,060,089 654,487
Emilian-Romagnol Emiliàn e rumagnòl eml 12.76 13,032 154,972 35,221
English English en 1187.98 6,664,360 1,153,861,030 58,293,978
Esperanto Esperanto eo 16.21 337,639 8,113,445 751,243
Spanish Español es 200.57 1,867,215 151,182,998 7,919,659
Estonian Eesti et 21.35 236,741 6,405,964 560,262
Basque Euskara eu 12.94 411,965 9,289,414 863,874
Persian فارسی fa 150.06 964,517 37,186,971 5,514,214
Finnish Suomi fi 38.91 553,826 21,546,032 1,449,982
Faroese Føroyskt fo 33.51 13,933 372,274 40,553
French Français fr 257.38 2,527,037 204,449,269 12,585,987
North Frisian Nordfriisk frr 13.39 17,404 249,043 44,248
West Frisian Frysk fy 30.11 51,539 1,119,718 157,650
Irish Gaeilge ga 5.67 58,613 1,137,457 99,979
Scottish Gaelic Gàidhlig gd 18.59 15,932 572,956 32,222
Galician Galego gl 29.8 196,699 6,399,681 495,450
Gorontalo Hulontalo gor 0.78 13,904 52,583 21,842
Gujarati ગુજરાતી gu 65.24 30,182 845,396 123,275
Hausa Hausa / هَوُسَ ha 3.01 26,752 264,649 46,130
Fiji Hindi Fiji Hindi hif 68.13 10,668 292,835 45,301
Hebrew עברית he 267.48 335,600 36,376,456 1,420,046
Hindi हिन्दी hi 228.9 156,829 5,860,659 1,254,681
Croatian Hrvatski hr 17.7 215,306 6,638,598 451,563
Upper Sorbian Hornjoserbsce hsb 26 13,896 381,145 35,531
Haitian Krèyol ayisyen ht 0.49 68,464 821,660 83,754
Hungarian Magyar hu 60.28 526,170 26,114,767 1,507,832
Armenian Հայերեն hy 48.77 297,979 8,698,216 1,005,520
Interlingua Interlingua ia 3.45 30,264 656,135 44,986
Indonesian Bahasa Indonesia id 131.44 650,156 23,597,086 3,535,245
Ilokano Ilokano ilo 72.35 15,378 399,077 70,263
Ido Ido io 4.2 37,717 1,016,186 55,847
Icelandic Íslenska is 31.13 56,748 1,805,714 147,119
Italian Italiano it 184.02 1,813,227 133,520,259 7,732,431
Japanese 日本語 ja 88.89 1,376,014 95,288,819 4,050,848
Javanese Basa Jawa jv 20.49 72,513 1,631,243 182,217
Georgian ქართული ka 31.4 168,138 4,514,530 473,185
Kazakh Қазақша kk 12.98 233,750 3,161,210 600,912
Kannada ಕನ್ನಡ kn 105.44 30,003 1,166,392 134,697
Korean 한국어 ko 167.51 636,329 34,929,814 3,083,178
Kurdish Kurdî ku 9.73 59,224 1,176,886 117,640
Kirghiz Кыргызча ky 0.57 80,347 444,987 110,446
Latin Latina la 14.06 137,861 3,763,573 278,506
Luxembourgish Lëtzebuergesch lb 25.31 61,773 2,449,896 134,622
Limburgish Limburgs li 91.8 14,304 459,352 66,418
Ligurian Lìgure lij 17.86 11,134 240,374 26,862
Ladin Ladin lld 0.001 167,761 217,390 173,330
Lombard Lumbaart lmo 8.36 71,108 1,189,833 142,186
Lithuanian Lietuvių lt 28.47 210,677 6,961,311 517,060
Latvian Latviešu lv 73.76 120,392 3,854,022 488,526
Maithili मैथिली mai 21.94 13,755 234,202 40,574
Banyumasan Basa Banyumasan map-bms 9.95 13,880 214,442 30,346
Malagasy Malagasy mg 10.69 95,588 1,055,996 246,599
Meadow Mari Олык Марий (Olyk Marij) mhr 17.32 10,912 190,038 28,498
Minangkabau Bahaso Minangkabau min 3.286 226,723 2,519,604 387,993
Macedonian Македонски mk 80.62 136,425 4,971,912 540,189
Malayalam മലയാളം ml 194.55 83,677 3,839,334 508,380
Mongolian Монгол mn 90.4 22,116 730,168 99,890
Meitei ꯃꯤꯇꯩꯂꯣꯟ mni 1.14 10,222 50,773 16,433
Marathi मराठी mr 39.34 92,520 2,276,678 304,873
Hill Mari Кырык Мары (Kyryk Mary) mrj 3.9 10,431 103,546 19,329
Malay Bahasa Melayu ms 20 365,166 5,850,483 1,060,468
Burmese language မြန်မာဘာသာ my 4.62 106,571 793,407 229,802
Mazandarani مَزِروني mzn 7.22 15,773 177,150 34,475
Neapolitan Nnapulitano nap 10.52 14,778 666,536 23,844
Low Saxon Plattdüütsch nds 5.57 84,207 996,178 165,138
Nepali नेपाली ne 59.75 31,736 1,142,030 106,734
Newari नेवारी new 8.78 72,348 865,991 166,268
Dutch Nederlands nl 18.29 2,123,909 64,256,301 4,538,087
Norwegian (Nynorsk) Nynorsk nn 15.35 165,627 3,477,560 380,217
Norwegian (Bokmål) Norsk (Bokmål) no 46.84 611,634 23,548,180 1,754,205
Navajo Diné bizaad nv 3.55 22,252 305,280 36,800
Occitan Occitan oc 9.42 88,774 2,366,984 159,496
Oriya ଓଡ଼ିଆ or 77.19 16,801 484,559 74,795
Ossetian Иронау os 62.2 17,065 537,125 63,249
Punjabi ਪੰਜਾਬੀ pa 20.66 50,090 686,228 160,057
Polish Polski pl 33.08 1,570,094 70,323,251 3,618,480
Piedmontese Piemontèis pms 2.3 67,892 866,476 103,436
Western Panjabi شاہ مکھی پنجابی pnb 2.87 70,002 626,202 122,459
Pashto پښتو ps 28.43 17,665 296,693 60,029
Portuguese Português pt 191.26 1,103,428 65,814,797 5,524,728
Quechua Runa Simi qu 22.81 23,707 657,398 57,069
Romanian Română ro 151.38 439,976 15,666,745 2,678,186
Russian Русский ru 153.84 1,919,890 130,552,607 7,704,895
Sanskrit संस्कृतम् sa 167.48 12,052 477,281 73,087
Sakha Саха тыла sah 32.18 16,562 396,753 49,870
Sicilian Sicilianu scn 16.8 26,244 735,954 55,884
Scots Scots sco 51.81 36,148 874,068 140,450
Sindhi سنڌي، سندھی ، सिन्ध sd 30.62 15,462 243,537 56,769
Serbo-Croatian Srpskohrvatski / Српскохрватски sh 744.91 458,233 41,413,520 4,648,159
Shan လိၵ်ႈတႆး shn 3.49 13,078 60,340 30,412
Sinhalese සිංහල si 81.69 19,165 554,512 88,281
Simple English Simple English simple 59.73 231,318 8,835,480 753,315
Slovak Slovenčina sk 22.29 244,888 7,565,252 559,221
Slovenian Slovenščina sl 30.57 181,263 6,018,751 457,610
Albanian Shqip sq 39.19 90,433 2,553,483 276,855
Serbian Српски sr 160.39 671,372 25,854,379 4,027,102
Sundanese Basa Sunda su 2.35 61,511 656,133 97,927
Swedish Svenska sv 16.99 2,564,519 52,954,465 6,174,561
Swahili Kiswahili sw 9.85 77,350 1,284,982 164,121
Silesian Ślůnsko szl 0.29 57,019 355,098 70,771
Tamil தமிழ் ta 35.88 154,261 3,720,477 489,406
Telugu తెలుగు te 100.48 83,199 3,867,553 324,929
Tajik Тоҷикӣ tg 10.39 109,736 1,349,738 267,125
Thai ไทย th 325.28 156,441 10,767,961 1,028,400
Tagalog Tagalog tl 157.5 44,846 2,017,328 238,269
Turkish Türkçe tr 165.06 524,458 29,749,477 2,463,381
Tatar Татарча tt 1.66 500,236 4,072,953 782,725
Ukrainian Українська uk 54.98 1,266,747 39,563,123 4,398,477
Urdu اردو ur 102.37 191,057 5,392,779 1,039,962
Uzbek O‘zbek uz 28.72 239,482 3,740,840 851,968
Venetian Vèneto vec 8.55 69,170 1,110,991 141,303
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt vi 719.67 1,283,896 70,028,327 19,423,241
Volapük Volapük vo 261.81 33,641 3,285,727 149,910
Walloon Walon wa 26.5 11,792 394,927 27,936
Waray-Waray Winaray war 3.65 1,266,160 6,528,386 2,870,624
Wu 吴语 wuu 0.59 42,860 303,315 57,135
Mingrelian მარგალური (Margaluri) xmf 3.85 20,197 199,741 37,316
Yiddish ייִדיש yi 45.92 15,510 587,190 44,415
Yoruba Yorùbá yo 5.36 32,661 565,970 56,573
Chinese 中文 zh 206.54 1,358,635 77,245,009 7,403,660
Classical Chinese 古文 / 文言文 zh-classical 198.37 12,447 391,589 101,856
Min Nan Bân-lâm-gú zh-min-nan 6.4 432,470 3,169,762 1,067,606
Cantonese 粵語 zh-yue 10.43 132,644 1,989,674 298,581
Zulu isiZulu zu 6.35 10,993 101,504 24,640
Language Language (local) Wiki Depth Articles Edits Total Pages


Trends[edit]

Trend of article depth.

The table shows how the depth of the largest 30 languages[2] 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 1188 93 257 33 89 184 18 191 201 154 17 207 47 39 39 55 165 151 262 50 60 16 22 58 131 267 253 168 28 160
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[edit]

More lists of Wikipedias by various criteria :  [ edit ]

Notes[edit]

  1. List of Wikipedias
  2. At November 2008.