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The editing depth, or simply 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.

Among editions with at least 10,000 articles the English Wikipedia has the most depth, at 1313.2 ( = 20.37 × 64.48).

Among editions with at least 10,000 articles, the Ladin Wikipedia has the least depth, at 0.002 ( = 1.29 × 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.

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 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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Language Language (local) Wiki Depth Articles Edits Total Pages
Acehnese Acehnese ace 7.11 13,063 152,733 27,971
Afrikaans Afrikaans af 35.3 124,160 2,768,681 406,971
Alemannic Alemannisch als 27.58 31,154 1,066,465 74,354
Amharic አማርኛ am 33.37 15,420 384,767 46,327
Aragonese Aragonés an 83.94 48,786 2,279,070 171,336
Arabic العربية ar 284.5 1,263,339 70,715,070 8,765,630
Moroccan Arabic داريجة ary 250.97 10,598 430,890 85,299
Egyptian Arabic مصرى arz 0.58 1,627,280 11,826,860 2,153,888
Assamese অসমীয়া as 113.87 18,508 510,548 110,309
Asturian Asturianu ast 10.8 137,289 4,363,654 243,983
Kotava Kotava avk 0.19 29,893 145,995 36,325
Azerbaijani Azərbaycanca az 52.9 204,514 8,127,280 612,891
South Azerbaijani تۆرکجه azb 5.1 244,078 1,572,894 578,864
Bashkir Башҡорт ba 24.61 63,815 1,282,522 183,591
Balinese Bali ban 3.93 29,538 220,473 60,126
Bavarian Boarisch bar 71.88 27,181 847,008 110,368
Samogitian Žemaitėška bat-smg 6.59 17,267 361,951 30,036
Central Bicolano Bikol bcl 12.48 19,587 287,686 47,781
Belarusian Беларуская be 22.9 253,852 4,990,127 713,012
Belarusian (Taraškievica) Беларуская (тарашкевіца) be-tarask 37.17 88,953 2,608,738 260,255
Bulgarian Български bg 28.89 304,060 12,554,031 686,140
Bengali বাংলা bn 287.78 169,631 8,178,970 1,330,077
Bishnupriya Manipuri বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী bpy 32.98 25,088 894,861 63,451
Breton Brezhoneg br 8.23 88,480 2,138,675 157,332
Bosnian Bosanski bs 85.89 95,008 3,696,428 375,731
Buginese Basa Ugi bug 0.81 15,951 205,452 20,477
Catalan Català ca 40.94 774,508 35,063,629 1,940,253
Chechen Нохчийн ce 8.45 601,525 10,465,329 1,191,311
Min Dong Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄ cdo 3.16 16,657 103,462 33,497
Cebuano Sinugboanong Binisaya ceb 2.18 6,117,071 35,115,861 11,230,366
Sorani کوردی ckb 28.64 76,809 1,446,577 246,499
Crimean Tatar Qırımtatarca crh 3.81 28,572 233,621 55,829
Czech Čeština cs 50.37 569,034 24,880,533 1,589,996
Chuvash Чăваш cv 8.1 57,660 853,267 118,935
Welsh Cymraeg cy 18.76 282,086 13,673,577 520,437
Danish Dansk da 56.67 308,530 12,006,882 968,030
German Deutsch de 93.78 3,016,810 254,409,850 8,290,824
Zazaki Zazaki diq 2.16 42,315 535,887 63,790
Greek Ελληνικά el 52.65 252,909 11,082,183 720,988
Emilian-Romagnol Emiliàn e rumagnòl eml 12.89 13,208 158,817 35,685
English English en 1313.16 6,996,148 1,286,587,608 63,174,504
Esperanto Esperanto eo 16.92 370,648 9,079,517 832,181
Spanish Español es 195.27 2,034,990 167,049,445 8,418,855
Estonian Eesti et 21.17 252,427 6,873,110 593,846
Basque Euskara eu 13.81 463,504 10,273,168 1,001,258
Persian فارسی fa 153.4 1,039,648 41,755,976 5,865,936
Finnish Suomi fi 37.94 594,533 23,195,957 1,537,320
Faroese Føroyskt fo 33.68 14,165 384,162 41,031
French Français fr 270.42 2,685,065 225,353,742 13,486,757
North Frisian Nordfriisk frr 11.94 20,266 271,511 50,457
West Frisian Frysk fy 28.16 56,849 1,193,502 171,062
Irish Gaeilge ga 6.96 61,769 1,264,144 109,792
Scottish Gaelic Gàidhlig gd 18.84 15,996 578,325 32,440
Galician Galego gl 27.64 221,387 7,059,891 544,653
Gorontalo Hulontalo gor 0.8 14,822 58,455 23,186
Gujarati ગુજરાતી gu 74.26 30,562 883,939 132,551
Hausa Hausa / هَوُسَ ha 2.19 57,723 618,356 90,397
Fiji Hindi Fiji Hindi hif 75.72 11,603 322,192 52,269
Hebrew עברית he 268.82 375,543 40,995,867 1,587,022
Hindi हिन्दी hi 247.79 165,425 6,403,957 1,369,710
Croatian Hrvatski hr 19.41 225,952 7,194,896 484,179
Upper Sorbian Hornjoserbsce hsb 26.5 13,989 385,768 35,981
Haitian Krèyol ayisyen ht 0.83 71,023 865,987 92,094
Hungarian Magyar hu 60.31 557,466 28,067,707 1,586,898
Armenian Հայերեն hy 62.97 319,227 10,319,909 1,173,402
Interlingua Interlingua ia 3.97 29,935 675,486 45,397
Indonesian Bahasa Indonesia id 136.38 729,640 27,271,960 3,987,971
Ilokano Ilokano ilo 73.12 15,402 403,313 70,445
Ido Ido io 2.03 56,355 1,071,239 78,041
Icelandic Íslenska is 31.47 60,169 1,911,481 156,852
Italian Italiano it 192.61 1,919,160 144,690,286 8,297,382
Japanese 日本語 ja 91.42 1,462,403 104,729,247 4,293,557
Javanese Basa Jawa jv 20.47 74,506 1,721,871 184,996
Georgian ქართული ka 29.13 183,005 4,787,389 503,236
Kazakh Қазақша kk 15.67 239,235 3,469,741 648,741
Kannada ಕನ್ನಡ kn 108.45 33,791 1,299,801 155,511
Korean 한국어 ko 169.44 704,142 39,781,172 3,373,157
Kurdish Kurdî ku 31.84 90,343 1,937,532 286,285
Kirghiz Кыргызча ky 0.9 75,964 512,111 109,322
Latin Latina la 14.86 140,212 3,881,785 287,227
Luxembourgish Lëtzebuergesch lb 25.62 65,102 2,608,813 141,983
Limburgish Limburgs li 88.03 15,101 481,981 68,524
Ligurian Lìgure lij 19.38 11,400 257,658 27,918
Ladin Ladin lld 0.002 180,788 242,129 187,739
Lombard Lumbaart lmo 7.78 76,663 1,307,809 148,763
Lithuanian Lietuvių lt 30.25 222,351 7,551,868 553,403
Latvian Latviešu lv 71.46 135,224 4,274,258 542,436
Maithili मैथिली mai 27.17 14,212 267,412 44,395
Banyumasan Basa Banyumasan map-bms 10.18 13,929 221,100 30,415
Malagasy Malagasy mg 10.48 99,757 1,101,795 255,181
Meadow Mari Олык Марий (Olyk Marij) mhr 19.31 11,337 200,056 30,922
Minangkabau Bahaso Minangkabau min 7.684 228,403 3,169,254 472,999
Macedonian Македонски mk 73.05 152,508 5,357,983 582,180
Malayalam മലയാളം ml 217.44 86,781 4,277,673 542,488
Mongolian Монгол mn 81.77 25,560 818,232 110,500
Meitei ꯃꯤꯇꯩꯂꯣꯟ mni 1.47 10,441 58,915 17,315
Marathi मराठी mr 39.3 99,949 2,567,782 321,746
Hill Mari Кырык Мары (Kyryk Mary) mrj 5.06 10,432 106,909 20,775
Malay Bahasa Melayu ms 16.59 425,362 6,529,661 1,153,603
Burmese language မြန်မာဘာသာ my 6.02 109,101 871,961 253,380
Mazandarani مَزِروني mzn 1.59 58,187 307,330 100,031
Neapolitan Nnapulitano nap 10.55 14,922 669,835 24,119
Low Saxon Plattdüütsch nds 7.25 85,449 1,036,636 181,844
Nepali नेपाली ne 85.06 29,900 1,280,604 111,136
Newari नेवारी new 8.76 72,508 871,483 166,208
Dutch Nederlands nl 19.48 2,187,483 69,174,065 4,705,387
Norwegian (Nynorsk) Nynorsk nn 14.48 174,727 3,597,910 395,040
Norwegian (Bokmål) Norsk (Bokmål) no 47.32 647,955 25,096,217 1,861,986
Navajo Diné bizaad nv 3.45 22,661 308,190 37,311
Occitan Occitan oc 10.04 90,875 2,459,227 165,596
Oriya ଓଡ଼ିଆ or 72.17 19,561 560,220 83,850
Ossetian Иронау os 54.41 20,418 582,141 74,180
Punjabi ਪੰਜਾਬੀ pa 20.58 58,703 806,708 186,855
Polish Polski pl 35.46 1,658,195 76,624,526 3,880,254
Piedmontese Piemontèis pms 2.15 70,351 877,080 106,288
Western Panjabi شاہ مکھی پنجابی pnb 3.68 74,120 685,477 137,845
Pashto پښتو ps 31.78 20,507 351,329 73,315
Portuguese Português pt 203.8 1,146,840 69,965,088 5,901,901
Quechua Runa Simi qu 22.99 24,141 676,765 58,038
Romanian Română ro 126.17 513,248 16,923,083 2,899,529
Russian Русский ru 162.92 2,045,830 144,922,330 8,292,190
Sanskrit संस्कृतम् sa 185.76 12,284 492,722 79,561
Sakha Саха тыла sah 32.05 17,572 417,084 53,049
Sicilian Sicilianu scn 17.33 26,319 765,750 55,924
Scots Scots sco 59.28 34,375 897,702 138,232
Sindhi سنڌي، سندھی ، सिन्ध sd 29.19 19,117 316,382 66,449
Serbo-Croatian Srpskohrvatski / Српскохрватски sh 749.93 460,716 42,444,790 4,625,836
Shan လိၵ်ႈတႆး shn 6.46 13,828 112,153 32,859
Sinhalese සිංහල si 168.81 22,926 744,279 161,814
Simple English Simple English simple 60.18 269,248 10,247,612 882,058
Slovak Slovenčina sk 23.5 253,839 8,011,210 586,925
Slovenian Slovenščina sl 31.18 192,941 6,429,304 490,536
Albanian Shqip sq 37.36 102,547 2,795,825 311,889
Serbian Српски sr 173.55 707,070 29,875,147 4,199,393
Sundanese Basa Sunda su 2.46 62,010 677,612 99,252
Swedish Svenska sv 18.28 2,609,886 57,357,096 6,311,546
Swahili Kiswahili sw 7.1 98,823 1,419,412 196,924
Silesian Ślůnsko szl 0.38 58,986 376,981 75,197
Tamil தமிழ் ta 41.93 174,118 4,265,503 595,336
Telugu తెలుగు te 69.58 112,917 4,479,167 391,312
Tajik Тоҷикӣ tg 10.62 115,314 1,433,254 282,056
Thai ไทย th 332.93 173,901 12,302,048 1,139,694
Tagalog Tagalog tl 145.07 48,553 2,155,655 246,181
Turkish Türkçe tr 189.95 635,975 35,315,386 3,325,801
Tatar Татарча tt 2.28 502,693 4,418,141 831,759
Ukrainian Українська uk 60.38 1,377,728 45,246,464 4,901,226
Urdu اردو ur 304.92 225,276 8,726,717 2,200,730
Uzbek O‘zbek uz 37.77 292,761 5,455,664 1,101,091
Venetian Vèneto vec 9.28 69,436 1,180,170 143,105
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt vi 745.51 1,294,410 73,468,017 19,504,927
Volapük Volapük vo 161.3 42,086 3,312,436 159,304
Walloon Walon wa 26.4 12,625 413,493 30,137
Waray-Waray Winaray war 4.25 1,273,947 7,711,642 2,877,724
Wu 吴语 wuu 1.16 45,662 362,887 66,739
Mingrelian მარგალური (Margaluri) xmf 4.51 21,801 239,217 40,954
Yiddish ייִדיש yi 46.11 15,517 595,663 44,227
Yoruba Yorùbá yo 4.8 35,205 594,477 59,625
Standard Moroccan Tamazight ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ ⵜⴰⵏⴰⵡⴰⵢⵜ zgh 3.2 11,729 103,857 21,210
Chinese 中文 zh 212.91 1,477,572 87,059,122 8,022,253
Classical Chinese 古文 / 文言文 zh-classical 197.51 13,600 416,532 113,272
Min Nan Bân-lâm-gú zh-min-nan 6.56 433,685 3,235,733 1,073,249
Cantonese 粵語 zh-yue 10.96 144,759 2,271,116 326,398
Zulu isiZulu zu 6.52 11,625 113,253 25,783
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The following graph and table show how the depth of the largest 30 languages of Wikipedia (on November 2008) have developed over time.

Trend of article depth over time (2008-2025)
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 1313 94 270 35 91 193 19 204 195 163 18 213 47 38 41 60 190 126 161 50 60 17 24 57 136 269 284 169 30 174
1 Jan 2025 1288 94 268 35 91 191 19 200 197 161 18 211 48 38 41 60 188 129 188 51 60 17 23 57 138 271 279 166 30 171
1 Jul 2024 1258 94 264 34 91 189 19 197 198 158 18 210 48 38 40 58 175 153 211 51 61 17 23 58 139 270 271 168 29 167
1 Jan 2024 1218 93 261 33 90 187 19 195 199 157 17 207 48 39 40 57 164 154 233 51 61 17 23 58 139 268 264 167 29 163
1 Jul 2023 1193 93 258 33 89 184 18 192 200 154 17 206 47 39 39 55 165 152 257 50 60 16 22 58 131 268 254 167 28 161
1 Jan 2023 1159 93 255 33 88 182 18 186 202 153 17 206 46 39 39 55 154 149 277 50 60 16 22 59 125 264 242 150 28 159
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 ]

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