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The depth or editing depth of Wikipedia is one of several possible rough indicators of the encyclopedia's collaborative quality.

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

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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 1276.8 ( = 20.24 × 63.1).

Among editions with at least 10,000 articles, the Ladin wikipedia has the least depth, at 0.002 ( = 1.28 × 0.001).

Background

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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

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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 7.13 12,963 151,588 27,784
Afrikaans Afrikaans af 37.13 119,381 2,705,110 398,648
Alemannic Alemannisch als 28.19 30,669 1,057,862 73,633
Amharic አማርኛ am 33.98 15,341 381,578 46,585
Aragonese Aragonés an 78.02 46,929 2,215,387 157,430
Arabic العربية ar 274.68 1,244,101 68,204,961 8,540,221
Moroccan Arabic داريجة ary 191.08 10,322 377,996 73,044
Egyptian Arabic مصرى arz 0.49 1,625,321 10,626,645 2,134,652
Assamese অসমীয়া as 161.4 13,979 441,225 97,436
Asturian Asturianu ast 10.43 136,761 4,290,771 241,550
Kotava Kotava avk 0.19 29,688 145,307 36,088
Azerbaijani Azərbaycanca az 48.9 199,970 7,812,346 581,206
South Azerbaijani تۆرکجه azb 5.1 243,751 1,565,570 578,078
Bashkir Башҡорт ba 24.66 63,752 1,278,176 183,810
Balinese Bali ban 3.49 26,212 199,717 50,950
Bavarian Boarisch bar 71.33 27,167 843,831 110,011
Samogitian Žemaitėška bat-smg 6.57 17,235 361,069 29,955
Central Bicolano Bikol bcl 14.58 17,820 278,914 45,218
Belarusian Беларуская be 23.36 247,234 4,855,138 701,385
Belarusian (Taraškievica) Беларуская (тарашкевіца) be-tarask 36.65 87,750 2,568,324 255,217
Bulgarian Български bg 28.68 300,981 12,373,685 678,409
Bengali বাংলা bn 296.98 159,401 7,698,070 1,279,173
Bishnupriya Manipuri বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী bpy 32.94 25,087 894,235 63,434
Breton Brezhoneg br 8.85 87,071 2,113,024 157,877
Bosnian Bosanski bs 84.67 93,974 3,650,147 368,864
Buginese Basa Ugi bug 0.73 15,845 202,916 20,121
Catalan Català ca 40.29 761,949 34,114,216 1,904,677
Chechen Нохчийн ce 8.43 601,397 10,443,961 1,190,981
Min Dong Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄ cdo 3.13 16,550 102,155 33,273
Cebuano Sinugboanong Binisaya ceb 2.18 6,116,932 35,051,514 11,229,306
Sorani کوردی ckb 29.76 72,871 1,372,091 238,647
Crimean Tatar Qırımtatarca crh 3.58 28,435 230,738 54,615
Czech Čeština cs 50.66 555,457 24,310,666 1,555,431
Chuvash Чăваш cv 7.81 56,735 837,589 115,664
Welsh Cymraeg cy 16.09 281,267 13,265,180 500,353
Danish Dansk da 57.52 302,917 11,860,618 954,739
German Deutsch de 93.79 2,954,469 248,182,343 8,134,768
Zazaki Zazaki diq 2.15 42,127 532,392 63,460
Greek Ελληνικά el 55.1 241,909 10,791,207 698,897
Emilian-Romagnol Emiliàn e rumagnòl eml 12.97 13,061 157,241 35,376
English English en 1276.77 6,902,583 1,249,169,846 61,731,821
Esperanto Esperanto eo 17.13 360,220 8,879,528 810,660
Spanish Español es 197.45 1,986,540 162,808,137 8,282,559
Estonian Eesti et 21.16 248,465 6,742,505 585,183
Basque Euskara eu 13.94 446,287 9,932,827 965,834
Persian فارسی fa 152.47 1,017,113 40,448,032 5,754,118
Finnish Suomi fi 38.19 582,496 22,679,395 1,511,845
Faroese Føroyskt fo 33.62 14,119 381,154 40,952
French Français fr 266.62 2,643,948 219,358,928 13,257,306
North Frisian Nordfriisk frr 11.96 20,005 268,028 49,841
West Frisian Frysk fy 29.39 54,485 1,170,077 165,615
Irish Gaeilge ga 6.6 60,940 1,238,803 106,935
Scottish Gaelic Gàidhlig gd 18.8 15,984 577,224 32,404
Galician Galego gl 27.41 215,696 6,864,921 529,232
Gorontalo Hulontalo gor 0.78 14,781 57,422 23,072
Gujarati ગુજરાતી gu 71.86 30,458 871,938 130,249
Hausa Hausa / هَوُسَ ha 2.12 50,779 537,523 79,174
Fiji Hindi Fiji Hindi hif 74.02 11,283 314,926 49,938
Hebrew עברית he 270.52 364,477 39,810,113 1,545,715
Hindi हिन्दी hi 244.02 163,399 6,272,652 1,345,617
Croatian Hrvatski hr 18.83 222,958 7,032,394 474,209
Upper Sorbian Hornjoserbsce hsb 26.09 13,951 383,933 35,674
Haitian Krèyol ayisyen ht 0.76 69,886 852,631 89,664
Hungarian Magyar hu 60.26 549,247 27,492,201 1,567,295
Armenian Հայերեն hy 63.32 313,429 10,126,801 1,156,175
Interlingua Interlingua ia 3.95 29,737 670,607 45,046
Indonesian Bahasa Indonesia id 138.45 708,576 26,442,970 3,917,716
Ilokano Ilokano ilo 72.92 15,392 401,828 70,415
Ido Ido io 2.25 50,986 1,055,524 70,791
Icelandic Íslenska is 31.29 59,212 1,880,335 154,000
Italian Italiano it 189.9 1,888,592 141,539,843 8,123,507
Japanese 日本語 ja 90.98 1,435,035 102,166,590 4,215,277
Javanese Basa Jawa jv 20.23 74,119 1,698,183 183,800
Georgian ქართული ka 30.62 176,069 4,702,024 490,873
Kazakh Қазақша kk 15.19 237,982 3,391,342 641,371
Kannada ಕನ್ನಡ kn 96.55 32,865 1,243,744 141,966
Korean 한국어 ko 166.08 688,686 38,004,063 3,306,623
Kurdish Kurdî ku 30.01 84,071 1,851,370 255,002
Kirghiz Кыргызча ky 0.76 77,105 491,243 108,783
Latin Latina la 14.68 139,561 3,850,466 285,067
Luxembourgish Lëtzebuergesch lb 25.41 64,118 2,548,716 139,821
Limburgish Limburgs li 86.21 15,012 472,913 67,779
Ligurian Lìgure lij 18.92 11,312 252,293 27,580
Ladin Ladin lld 0.002 180,769 240,594 187,663
Lombard Lumbaart lmo 8.06 74,417 1,287,230 145,457
Lithuanian Lietuvių lt 30.13 219,806 7,408,795 547,891
Latvian Latviešu lv 72.42 130,590 4,157,979 525,785
Maithili मैथिली mai 26.23 14,119 263,702 43,480
Banyumasan Basa Banyumasan map-bms 10.15 13,929 220,600 30,400
Malagasy Malagasy mg 10.61 98,266 1,089,933 252,274
Meadow Mari Олык Марий (Olyk Marij) mhr 18.64 11,361 198,954 30,599
Minangkabau Bahaso Minangkabau min 7.66 227,907 3,157,228 471,722
Macedonian Македонски mk 76.43 147,212 5,274,858 570,462
Malayalam മലയാളം ml 201.71 86,050 4,031,408 528,586
Mongolian Монгол mn 87.02 24,456 794,780 108,904
Meitei ꯃꯤꯇꯩꯂꯣꯟ mni 1.38 10,436 57,897 17,098
Marathi मराठी mr 38.94 98,331 2,486,587 317,649
Hill Mari Кырык Мары (Kyryk Mary) mrj 4.73 10,433 106,264 20,366
Malay Bahasa Melayu ms 19.15 392,154 6,338,233 1,110,368
Burmese language မြန်မာဘာသာ my 5.61 108,454 849,403 246,887
Mazandarani مَزِروني mzn 2.1 45,137 268,585 81,038
Neapolitan Nnapulitano nap 10.57 14,885 668,701 24,066
Low Saxon Plattdüütsch nds 6.87 85,072 1,027,787 177,822
Nepali नेपाली ne 71.99 31,366 1,249,695 110,506
Newari नेवारी new 8.71 72,471 869,352 165,881
Dutch Nederlands nl 19.25 2,170,472 68,143,457 4,661,385
Norwegian (Nynorsk) Nynorsk nn 14.84 171,689 3,567,483 390,549
Norwegian (Bokmål) Norsk (Bokmål) no 47.96 637,297 24,717,311 1,842,225
Navajo Diné bizaad nv 3.45 22,645 307,661 37,293
Occitan Occitan oc 10.15 90,154 2,439,978 164,786
Oriya ଓଡ଼ିଆ or 75.98 18,652 543,671 81,665
Ossetian Иронау os 56.84 19,269 567,601 70,446
Punjabi ਪੰਜਾਬੀ pa 21.79 55,075 769,637 179,086
Polish Polski pl 34.55 1,632,223 74,862,066 3,791,153
Piedmontese Piemontèis pms 2.21 69,103 872,883 104,708
Western Panjabi شاہ مکھی پنجابی pnb 3.46 73,481 672,597 134,609
Pashto پښتو ps 31.14 19,783 338,637 69,956
Portuguese Português pt 198.77 1,136,104 68,713,092 5,782,852
Quechua Runa Simi qu 22.95 24,072 674,117 57,853
Romanian Română ro 128.26 500,021 16,553,714 2,849,431
Russian Русский ru 158.73 2,006,673 140,822,000 8,052,124
Sanskrit संस्कृतम् sa 180.83 12,216 489,104 77,683
Sakha Саха тыла sah 32.59 17,149 410,295 52,003
Sicilian Sicilianu scn 17.07 26,385 752,294 56,168
Scots Scots sco 58.61 34,455 892,159 138,313
Sindhi سنڌي، سندھی ، सिन्ध sd 28.56 18,324 294,184 64,003
Serbo-Croatian Srpskohrvatski / Српскохрватски sh 748.4 460,080 42,207,874 4,627,678
Shan လိၵ်ႈတႆး shn 3.72 13,684 65,142 32,243
Sinhalese සිංහල si 181.28 21,580 720,858 157,311
Simple English Simple English simple 60.16 259,058 9,827,216 850,024
Slovak Slovenčina sk 23.36 250,799 7,912,640 578,548
Slovenian Slovenščina sl 31.78 187,169 6,311,956 477,327
Albanian Shqip sq 36.84 100,381 2,705,706 304,912
Serbian Српски sr 171.99 696,315 28,788,781 4,173,065
Sundanese Basa Sunda su 2.45 61,810 672,429 98,881
Swedish Svenska sv 17.88 2,596,732 56,036,336 6,270,036
Swahili Kiswahili sw 9.39 85,594 1,356,618 181,520
Silesian Ślůnsko szl 0.38 58,395 373,881 74,409
Tamil தமிழ் ta 42.21 168,860 4,118,918 580,824
Telugu తెలుగు te 80.79 100,880 4,299,653 365,113
Tajik Тоҷикӣ tg 10.51 113,996 1,412,547 277,952
Thai ไทย th 337.97 167,805 11,830,881 1,114,746
Tagalog Tagalog tl 147.21 47,668 2,128,118 243,167
Turkish Türkçe tr 183.35 623,402 34,077,406 3,216,927
Tatar Татарча tt 2.25 502,164 4,397,904 829,391
Ukrainian Українська uk 59.12 1,350,729 43,694,337 4,789,157
Urdu اردو ur 101.29 213,766 6,409,150 1,108,486
Uzbek O‘zbek uz 35.2 295,598 5,277,110 1,094,132
Venetian Vèneto vec 9.27 69,341 1,176,693 142,916
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt vi 727.64 1,294,971 71,840,323 19,488,970
Volapük Volapük vo 199.25 38,263 3,304,492 155,381
Walloon Walon wa 26 12,457 408,292 29,545
Waray-Waray Winaray war 4.25 1,266,603 7,603,576 2,870,185
Wu 吴语 wuu 0.75 44,339 326,017 60,925
Mingrelian მარგალური (Margaluri) xmf 4.3 21,560 231,652 40,187
Yiddish ייִדיש yi 46.19 15,477 594,351 44,142
Yoruba Yorùbá yo 4.97 34,500 587,996 58,818
Chinese 中文 zh 210.12 1,448,650 84,449,491 7,851,429
Classical Chinese 古文 / 文言文 zh-classical 191.76 13,493 410,413 110,402
Min Nan Bân-lâm-gú zh-min-nan 6.5 433,395 3,217,419 1,070,964
Cantonese 粵語 zh-yue 10.81 142,013 2,198,698 320,174
Zulu isiZulu zu 6.41 11,540 110,601 25,597
Language Language (local) Wiki Depth Articles Edits Total Pages


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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 1277 94 267 35 91 190 19 199 197 159 18 210 48 38 40 59 183 128 199 51 60 17 23 58 138 271 275 166 30 172
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

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More lists of Wikipedias by various criteria :  [ edit ]

Notes

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  1. ↑ List of Wikipedias
  2. ↑ At November 2008.
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