Wikimedia News/2025

2024

Wikimedia News

2026

December 2025

• Wikipedia ends the year with 66,197,989 articles in 350 languages (plus 8 language wikis with 0 articles), which constitutes a 3% increase in articles over the past year.
• Wiktionary ends the year with 47,067,156 entries in 178 languages (plus 20 language wikis with 0 entries), a 10% increase in entries over the past year.
• Wikiquote ends the year with 367,344 content pages in 85 languages (plus 14 language wikis with 0 content pages), a 7% increase in content pages over the past year.
• Wikibooks ends the year with 354,964 book modules in 100 languages (plus 22 language wikis with 0 book modules), an 8% decrease in book modules over the past year.
• Wikisource ends the year with 6,714,167 text units in at least 225 languages (comprising 6,633,602 units in 83 individual language wikis and an additional 80,565 units in at least 154 languages at the Multiligual Wikisource — 12 languages are known to have content in both places), a 7% increase in text units over the past year.
• Wikinews ends the year with 1,765,779 articles in 36 languages, a 0.2% increase in articles over the past year.
• Wikiversity ends the year with 166,258 learning modules in 73 languages (comprising 162,656 modules in 17 separate language wikis and an additional 3,602 modules in 56 languages at Wikiversity Beta), a 2% increase in learning modules over the past year.
• Wikivoyage ends the year with 143,727 articles in 26 languages, a 3% increase in articles over the past year.
• Wikimedia Commons ends the year with 132,046,008 media files, an 18% increase over the past year.
• Wikispecies ends the year with 933,389 content pages, a 4% increase over the past year.
• Wikidata ends the year with 120,119,119 items, a 5% increase over the past year.
• Wikimedia Incubator ends the year with 182,610 content pages across 1,475 test wikis in 990 different languages (including 25 test wikis that are currently empty), a 12% increase in content pages and 8% increase in test wikis over the past year.
• Wikifunctions ends the year with 21,862 functions, a 77% increase over the past year.
• 14 content wikis were created in 2025 (5 Wikipedias, 3 Wiktionaries, 3 Wikisources, 2 Wikiquotes, and 1 Wikibooks), 12 fewer than were created in 2024.
• 3 content wikis were closed/locked (and one Wiktionary was merged into another) in 2025.

Note: The article counts listed above are actual counts collected at 00:01 UTC on 2026-01-01. They are based on what MediaWiki sees as constituting an article (or content page), as reflected at each wiki's Special:Statistics page. Language counts (which were collected at around 01:00 UTC on 2026-01-01) include closed, but not deleted, wikis and count "Simple English" as a separate language when such a wiki exists within a project. The language count at the Multilingual Wikisource is lower than it should be, because not all languages hosted there are tracked on the page used as a source for this summary.

31

• The Portuguese Wiktionary has reached 100,000 registered users.
• The Kusaal Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.

19

• The Tatar Wikipedia has reached 1,000,000 total pages.
• The Malay Wikibooks has reached 500 book modules, as a user has created 114 new ministubs for surah of the Quran.

18

• The Tajik Wikipedia has reached 100,000 registered users.

16

• The Pontic Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.
• The Swahili Wiktionary has reached 50,000 entries.

15

• The Kabardian Wiktionary has reached 40,000 entries.

14

• The Gothic Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

12

• The Dutch Wiktionary has reached 1,000,000 entries.

9

• The Bosnian Wiktionary has fallen below 1,000 total pages following the deletion of some redundant templates (note: back in April it was decided to merge the wiki's content into the Serbo-Croatian Wiktionary).

8

• The Mongolian Wikipedia has reached 100,000 registered users.

7

• The Obolo Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.
• The Breton Wikipedia has reached 90,000 articles.

6

• The Turkish Wiktionary has reached 700,000 entries.

4

• The Pannonian Rusyn Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

2

• The Cree Wikipedia has been closed and all of its articles deleted, following a discussion.
• The Greenlandic Wikipedia has been closed and all of its articles deleted, following a discussion.

November 2025

30

• The Madurese Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.

28

• The newly created Toki Pona Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.
• The Punjabi Wiktionary has reached 15,000 entries, increasing by over 3,000 entries in the last 24 hours for reasons that aren't immediately clear.

27

• The Papiamentu Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
• The Arabic Wiktionary has reached 70,000 entries.
• The Portuguese Wikibooks has reached 100,000 total pages.

26

• The Belarusian (Taraškievica) Wikipedia has reached 90,000 articles.
• The Dimli / Southern Zaza Wiktionary has reached 1,000 registered users.
• The Malay Wiktionary has reached 10,000 registered users.
• The Toki Pona Wikipedia is open for editing after being created as a Wikimedia wiki (at tok.wikipedia.org) today, with content imported from the non-Wikimedia wiki wikipesija.org (which now redirects to the newly created wiki). Because of the special way the importing was done (from an XML dump), the usual evidence of importing is not visible on the wiki itself (i.e., in the page histories — the pages in the import log are mostly templates and modules imported in the usual way from other Wikimedia wikis, after the main content was in place).

23

• The Standard Moroccan Amazigh Wiktionary has reached 10,000 page edits.

20

• The Indonesian Wikivoyage has reached 1,000 registered users.

13

• The Oriya Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.

12

• The Inupiak Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.
• The Icelandic Wiktionary has reached 100,000 entries.

11

• The Mon Wiktionary has reached 200,000 entries.
• The Central Bikol Wikisource has reached 10,000 page edits.

9

• The Assamese Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.
• The Nupe Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.
• The Danish Wikisource has reached 100,000 page edits.

8

• The Nupe Wikipedia has reached 1,000 total pages.
• The Swazi Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.

6

• The Ido Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles.

5

• The Arabic Wikinews has fallen below 5,000 articles, losing about half of its article count for reasons that are not immediately obvious.
• The Russian Wikinews has fallen below 10,000,000 total pages as an admin has been deleting thousands of "obsolete" pages.

4

• The Central Kanuri Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.
• The Nigerian Pidgin Wikiquote is open for editing after having been created as a separate wiki (at pcm.wikiquote.org) 8 days ago, with content imported today from the test wiki at the Wikimedia Incubator.
• The Minangkabau Wikisource is open for editing after having been created as a separate wiki (at min.wikisource.org) 8 days ago, with content imported today from the Multilingual Wikisource.
• The Sanskrit Wikisource has reached 10,000 registered users.

3

• The Ukrainian Wikisource has reached 1,000,000 page edits.

2

• The French Wikiquote has reached 10,000 content pages.

1

• The Anglo-Saxon Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.

October 2025

28

• The Assamese Wikiquote has reached 1,000 registered users.

26

• The recently created Madurese Wikisource has reached 1,000 total pages.

24

• The Vietnamese Wikibooks has fallen below 10,000 book modules, as a local admin continues to clean up the wiki.

23

• The Santali Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.
• The Swahili Wiktionary has reached 40,000 entries.
• The Vietnamese Wikibooks has fallen below 30,000 book modules following the deletion of thousands of out-of-scope pages there.
• Wikifunctions has reached 20,000 functions.

22

• The Nepali Wiktionary has reached 500 entries.

21

• The Kikuyu Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.

20

• The Rakhine/Arakanese Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
• The Igbo Wikiquote has reached 10,000 total pages.

17

• The Thai Wiktionary has reached 2,000,000 entries.

13

• The Pali Wikipedia has fallen below 500 articles, losing over 90% of its content pages in the last 24 hours, as a global sysop has been cleaning up the wiki.

10

• The Tigre Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.

5

• The recently created Tagalog Wikisource has reached 10,000 page edits.

3

• The Mon Wiktionary has reached 150,000 entries.

2

• The Tagalog Wikisource is open for editing after having been created as a separate wiki (at tl.wikisource.org) 8 weeks ago, with content imported today from the Multilingual Wikisource.

1

• The Madurese Wikisource is open for editing after having been created as a separate wiki (at mad.wikisource.org) about 7 weeks ago, with content imported yesterday from the Multilingual Wikisource.

September 2025

29

• The Southern Ndebele Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.

26

• The Arabic Wikisource has reached 90,000 text units.

25

• The Sundanese Wikisource has reached 1,000 registered users.

24

• The Komering Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.
• The German Wikisource has reached 600,000 text units.

23

• The recently created Malay Wikiquote has reached 1,000 total pages.

21

• The Hausa Wikipedia has reached 70,000 articles.

19

• The Swahili Wiktionary has reached 30,000 entries.
• The English Wikiquote has reached 60,000 content pages.

18

• The Igbo Wiktionary has reached 500 entries.
• The Malay Wikiquote is open for editing after having been created as a separate wiki (at ms.wikiquote.org) earlier today, with content imported from the test wiki at the Wikimedia Incubator.

17

• The Galician Wiktionary has reached 90,000 entries.

16

• The Danish Wikiquote has reached 10,000 registered users.

14

• The Chinese Wikipedia has reached 1,500,000 articles.

13

• The Welsh Wikipedia has reached 100,000 registered users.
• The Luganda Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.

12

• The Aragonese Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.
• The Norwegian (Bokmål) Wikisource has reached 10,000 text units.

9

• The Igbo Wiktionary has reached 1,000 registered users.

7

• The Czech Wikiquote has reached 15,000 content pages.

4

• The Betawi Wiktionary is open for editing after having been created as a separate wiki (at bew.wiktionary.org) 15 days ago, with 3,841 entries imported from the test wiki at the Wikimedia Incubator.
• The Minangkabau Wikibooks is open for editing after having been created as a separate wiki (at min.wikibooks.org) 24 days ago, with content imported from the test wiki at the Wikimedia Incubator (almost all of which lack wikilinks, resulting in a content page count less than 10).

3

• The Standard Moroccan Tamazight Wiktionary is open for editing after having been created as a separate wiki (at zgh.wiktionary.org) 23 days ago, with 280 entries imported from the test wiki at the Wikimedia Incubator. (Since the wiki is new and still being configured, certain things might not work as expected for a few days, or perhaps longer.)
• The Talysh Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles, as a local admin has been creating hundreds of microstubs about places in India.

August 2025

31

• The Georgian Wikiquote has reached 200 content pages.

28

• The Rakhine/Arakanese Wikipedia is open for editing after having been created as a separate wiki (at rki.wikipedia.org) 17 days ago, with 966 articles imported from the test wiki at the Wikimedia Incubator.

26

• The West Coast Bajau Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.

23

• The Portuguese Wiktionary has reached 500,000 entries.
• The Swahili Wiktionary has reached 20,000 entries.

20

• The Spanish Wiktionary has reached 1,000,000 total pages.

17

• The Occitan Wikipedia is back up to 90,000 articles, after dropping below that level back in June.

16

• The Hawaiian Wikipedia has reached 100,000 page edits.
• The Vietnamese Wikipedia has reached 1,000,000 registered users.
• The Uzbek Wikibooks has reached 1,000 registered users.

13

• The Sylheti Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.
• The Shan Wiktionary has reached 40,000 entries.

11

• The Finnish Wikipedia has reached 600,000 articles.

8

• The Tumbuka Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.

4

• The Hausa Wikipedia has reached 100,000 total pages.

July 2025

31

• The Belarusian Wiktionary has reached 10,000 total pages.

30

• The Romanian Wikisource has reached 15,000 text units.

29

• The Fante Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
• The Somali Wiktionary has reached 10,000 total pages.
• The Malay Wikisource has reached 1,000 registered users.

28

• The Southern Ndebele Wikipedia has reached 200 articles.

26

• The Igala Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.
• The Mon Wiktionary has reached 100,000 entries.

25

• The Mon Wiktionary has reached 90,000 entries, as this week's bot activity continues.
• The Macedonian Wikibooks has fallen below 200 book modules and below 1,000 total pages, losing about half of its content in the last 24 hours as a local admin works to clean up the wiki.

24

• The Mon Wiktionary has reached 80,000 entries, as a bot continues to create new entries for CJK characters.

23

• The Farefare Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

22

• The Kurdish Wikipedia has reached 100,000 registered users.
• The Mon Wiktionary has reached 70,000 entries, as a bot has been creating thousands of entries for CJK characters.

21

• The Mooré/Mossi Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.
• The Gorontalo Wikiquote has reached 100 content pages.

20

• The Fula Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.

17

• The Goan Konkani Wiktionary has reached 1,000 registered users.
• The Pashto Wikivoyage has reached 1,000 registered users.

11

• The Interlingua Wikipedia is back up to 30,000 articles after dropping below that level back in December 2023.

9

• The Icelandic Wiktionary has reached 100,000 total pages.

7

• The Aymara Wiktionary has reached 1,000 total pages.
• The Czech Wikisource has reached 60,000 text units.
• The Tamil Wikisource has reached 30,000 text units.
• The Wikimania 2006 wiki has reached 1,000 registered users.

3

• The Papiamentu Wikipedia has reached 10,000 total pages.
• The Kannada Wikiquote has reached 10,000 page edits.

2

• The Central Bikol Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.
• The Hausa Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles.
• The Bengali Wiktionary has reached 100,000 entries.

June 2025

30

• The Iban Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.

29

• The Moksha Wikipedia has reached 100,000 page edits.
• The Malay Wikisource has reached 1,000 text units.

27

• The Wikimania wiki has reached 5,000 content pages.

25

• The Marathi Wikipedia has reached 100,000 articles.

23

• The Swahili Wikipedia has reached 100,000 articles.
• The Standard Moroccan Amazigh Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.

22

• The Occitan Wikipedia has dropped below 90,000 articles, as hundreds of stubs about asteroids have been changed into redirects pointing to a list of same.

21

• The Santali Wiktionary has reached 1,000 entries.

18

• The Mandailing Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.
• The Shan Wiktionary has reached 1,000 registered users.

16

• The Talysh Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.

13

• The Tachelhit/Shilha Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.

12

• The Czech Wikivoyage has reached 500 articles.

9

• The Balinese Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles.
• The Ladin Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.

8

• The Shan Wikibooks has reached 200 book modules.

7

• The Malagasy Wikipedia has reached 100,000 articles.

6

• The Thai Wikiquote has reached 500 content pages.

5

• The Uzbek Wikiquote has reached 1,000 content pages.

3

• The Nupe Wikipedia has reached 300 articles.
• The Punjabi Wiktionary has reached 10,000 entries again, after falling below 5,000 back in November 2024.

1

• The Lao Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
• The Bengali Wikibooks has reached 2,000 book modules.

May 2025

28

• The English Wikipedia has reached 7,000,000 articles.
• The Meitei Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.

25

• The Pannonian Rusyn Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.
• The Turkish Wiktionary has reached 600,000 entries.

22

• The Mazandarani Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles.

21

• The Italian Wiktionary has reached 100,000 registered users.

18

• The Toba Batak Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
• The Mazandarani Wikipedia has reached 100,000 total pages.

17

• The Arabic Wiktionary has reached 1,000,000 page edits.

15

• The Turkish Wiktionary has reached 500,000 entries.

14

• The Karakalpak Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.

13

• The Pannonian Rusyn Wikipedia has reached 10,000 page edits.

12

• The Yakut/Sakha Wikiquote has reached 1,000 registered users.

11

• The Basque Wikipedia has reached 1,000,000 total pages.

10

• The Nupe Wikipedia has reached 200 articles.

9

• The Nupe Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.

8

• The Nupe Wikipedia is open for editing after having been created as a separate wiki (at nup.wikipedia.org) two weeks ago, with content imported from the test wiki at the Wikimedia Incubator.

7

• The Finnish Wiktionary has reached 600,000 entries.
• The Turkish Wiktionary has reached 400,000 entries.

2

• The Vietnamese Wiktionary has reached 300,000 entries.

April 2025

30

• The Asturian Wiktionary has reached 70,000 entries.

29

• The Bengali Wikiquote has reached 2,000 content pages.

28

• The German Wikiversity has reached 1,000,000 page edits.

25

• The Bosnian Wiktionary has been emptied of its content (in the main namespace) following a community decision to merge it with the Serbo-Croatian Wiktionary.

23

• The Vietnamese Wikiquote has reached 1,000 content pages.
• The Rusyn/Ruthenian Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
• The Punjabi Wikisource has reached 2,000 text units.

20

• The Bengali Wikiquote has reached 10,000 total pages.

19

• The Thai Wiktionary has reached 1,500,000 entries.

18

• The Tachelhit/Shilha Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
• The Icelandic Wiktionary has reached 90,000 entries.

16

• The Amharic Wikiquote (which is closed) has reached 1,000 registered users.
• Wikifunctions has reached 15,000 functions.

15

• The Wikimania wiki has reached 2,000 content pages, as it gears up for Wikimania 2025.

14

• The Mon Wiktionary has reached 60,000 entries.

8

• The Icelandic Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles.

7

• The Bengali Wikipedia has reached 20,000 uploaded files.

6

• The Central Bikol Wikisource has reached 100 text units.

2

• The Fijian Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.

1

• The Pitcairn-Norfolk Wikipedia is now closed and locked (see 19 March, below), with none of its content having been moved to the corresponding test wiki in the Wikimedia Incubator.
• The Thai Wiktionary has reached 1,000,000 entries, as tens of thousands of entries for verb forms are being created by a bot, based on entries in the English Wiktionary.

March 2025

31

• The Standard Moroccan Amazigh Wikipedia has reached 100,000 page edits.
• The Swedish Wikisource has reached 30,000 text units.

25

• The German Wikipedia has reached 3,000,000 articles.
• The Saraiki Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.
• The French Wikisource has reached 600,000 text units.

22

• The Tachelhit/Shilha Wikipedia has reached 10,000 total pages.

20

• The Esperanto Wiktionary has reached 10,000 registered users.

19

• The Pitcairn-Norfolk Wikipedia has been emptied of its content (in the main namespace) and will soon be closed and locked, following a closure discussion.

18

• The Southern Dagaare Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.

16

• The Korean Wikipedia has reached 700,000 articles.
• The Igbo Wikiquote has reached 1,000 registered users.

14

• The Nias Wiktionary has reached 1,000 registered users.
• The Polish Wikiquote has reached 30,000 content pages.

13

• The Igbo Wikipedia has reached 40,000 articles.

12

• The Southern Dagaare Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.
• The Saraiki Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.
• The Catalan Wikisource is back up to 10,000 text units.

11

• The Ewe Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
• The Sundanese Wikisource has reached 10,000 total pages.

10

• The Shan Wikipedia has reached 100,000 page edits.

9

• The Ossetian Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.
• The Piedmontese Wikipedia has reached 70,000 articles.
• The Tulu Wikisource has reached 100 text units.

7

• The Malayalam Wiktionary has reached 10,000 registered users.
• The Ukrainian Wikisource has reached 300,000 text units.

6

• The Pannonian Rusyn Wikipedia has reached 1,000 total pages.

5

• The Breton Wikisource has reached 10,000 text units.

2

• The Tachelhit/Shilha Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.

February 2025

27

• The Armenian Wikisource has reached 30,000 text units.

25

• The Sylheti Wikipedia is open for editing after having been created as a separate wiki yesterday (at syl.wikipedia.org), with content imported from the test wiki at the Wikimedia Incubator.

24

• The Macedonian Wikipedia has reached 150,000 articles.
• The English Wiktionary has reached 10,000,000 total pages.

22

• The Igala Wikipedia has reached 1,000 total pages.
• The Tswana Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
• The Slovenian Wikisource has reached 10,000 registered users.
• The Gun Wikinews has reached 1,000 articles.
• Wikimedia Commons has reached 1,000,000,000 page edits.

20

• The Madurese Wikipedia has reached 10,000 total pages.

19

• The Norwegian (Bokmål) Wikisource has reached 100,000 total pages.
• The Santali Wiktionary is open for editing after having been created as a separate wiki yesterday (at sat.wiktionary.org), with content imported from the test wiki at the Wikimedia Incubator.

18

• The Finnish Wikibooks has reached 5,000 book modules.

15

• The Saraiki Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
• The Tuvan Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.

13

• The Burmese Wiktionary has reached 10,000 registered users.

10

• The Central Kanuri Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

7

• The Assamese Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles and 2,000 uploaded files.
• The Norman Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
• Importing of the Georgian Wikisource (from the multilingual Wikisource) is finally finished, 9 months after it began back in May 2024, pushing the wiki past 5,000 text units and 10,000 page edits, and nominally marking the official opening of the wiki for public editing.

6

• The Central Kanuri Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.
• The Sinhalese Wiktionary has reached 5,000 entries.

5

• The Volapük Wikipedia has reached 40,000 articles again, after falling below that level back in August 2022.

2

• The Ligurian Wikisource has reached 1,000 registered users.

January 2025

31

• The Aymara Wiktionary has reached 500 entries again, after dropping below that level in July 2024.
• The Central Kanuri Wikipedia is open for editing after being created as a separate wiki (at knc.wikipedia.org) earlier today, with content imported from the test wiki at the Wikimedia Incubator.

30

• The Serbo-Croatian Wiktionary has reached 10,000 registered users.

29

• The Armenian Wikisource has reached 20,000 text units.

28

• The Central Kurdish/Sorani Wiktionary has reached 5,000 entries again, after falling well below that level back in February 2024.

27

• The Chinese Wiktionary has reached 2,000,000 entries, approximately one year after reaching 1,500,000.

26

• The Assamese Wikipedia has reached 100,000 total pages.
• The Karakalpak Wiktionary has reached 2,000 entries, as an admin has been adding links to main-namespace pages that previously did not have them.

25

• The Karakalpak Wiktionary has reached 1,000 entries.

24

• The Georgian Wiktionary has reached 20,000 entries.

22

• The Karakalpak Wikipedia has reached 100,000 page edits.
• The Malagasy Wiktionary has reached 5,000,000 entries.

20

• The Saraiki Wikipedia has reached 10,000 total pages.

19

• The Simple English Wikipedia has reached 10,000,000 page edits (after initially reaching that level back on 23 February 2014, and then dropping well below it again some time later—possibly in February 2018).

17

• Wikispecies has reached 900,000 content pages.

14

• The Japanese Wikiversity has reached 200 learning modules.

13

• The Czech Wikivoyage has reached 1,000 total pages.

11

• The Danish Wikiquote has reached 200 content pages.

10

• The Malay Wikipedia has reached 400,000 articles.

5

• The Banjar Wikipedia has reached 100,000 page edits.

2

• The Spanish Wikipedia has reached 2,000,000 articles.

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