Wikipedia article depth

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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

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.

Among editions with at least 10,000 articles the English Wikipedia has the most depth, at 1368.3 ( = 20.63 × 66.32).

Among editions with at least 10,000 articles, the Ladin Wikipedia has the least depth, at 0.002 ( = 1.32 × 0.002).

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.

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

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.

Language	Language (local)	Wiki	Depth	Articles	Edits	Total Pages
Acehnese	Acehnese	ace	7.59	13,073	158,113	28,315
Afrikaans	Afrikaans	af	37.93	129,858	2,913,674	440,997
Alemannic	Alemannisch	als	27.16	31,734	1,083,762	75,339
Amharic	አማርኛ	am	32.93	15,700	393,557	46,752
Aragonese	Aragonés	an	33.99	84,974	2,456,599	239,742
Arabic	العربية	ar	290.06	1,325,102	75,832,422	9,175,257
Moroccan Arabic	داريجة	ary	111.53	19,200	571,497	106,890
Egyptian Arabic	مصرى	arz	0.85	1,632,461	13,144,272	2,255,464
Assamese	অসমীয়া	as	82.47	24,703	618,195	125,971
Asturian	Asturianu	ast	11.35	139,171	4,500,047	249,577
Kotava	Kotava	avk	0.19	29,905	147,703	36,369
Azerbaijani	Azərbaycanca	az	61.3	216,207	8,991,536	682,725
South Azerbaijani	تۆرکجه	azb	5.2	244,733	1,590,967	580,544
Bashkir	Башҡорт	ba	24.83	64,288	1,300,628	185,147
Balinese	Bali	ban	3.73	38,332	264,819	78,697
Bavarian	Boarisch	bar	72.55	27,232	852,844	110,861
Samogitian	Žemaitėška	bat-smg	6.63	17,275	362,805	30,079
Central Bicolano	Bikol	bcl	10.2	22,349	306,892	51,632
Belarusian	Беларуская	be	22.12	264,893	5,159,574	735,102
Belarusian (Taraškievica)	Беларуская (тарашкевіца)	be-tarask	37.09	91,205	2,672,448	266,654
Bulgarian	Български	bg	29.43	311,245	12,945,677	705,423
Bengali	বাংলা	bn	268.97	189,417	9,057,971	1,418,936
Bishnupriya Manipuri	বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী	bpy	32.94	25,096	895,656	63,426
Breton	Brezhoneg	br	7.98	91,471	2,190,454	161,676
Bosnian	Bosanski	bs	86.46	98,526	3,900,408	387,171
Buginese	Basa Ugi	bug	0.84	15,959	210,573	20,526
Catalan	Català	ca	43.38	798,816	37,920,305	2,010,204
Chechen	Нохчийн	ce	15.97	866,446	21,517,362	1,893,763
Min Dong	Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄	cdo	3.19	16,742	105,203	33,647
Cebuano	Sinugboanong Binisaya	ceb	2.31	6,115,358	37,001,440	11,234,952
Sorani	کوردی	ckb	27.63	83,254	1,607,244	258,881
Crimean Tatar	Qırımtatarca	crh	3.9	29,717	244,154	58,419
Czech	Čeština	cs	49.87	595,543	26,026,960	1,656,643
Chuvash	Чăваш	cv	8.37	59,095	873,906	123,337
Welsh	Cymraeg	cy	24.26	284,350	15,238,798	550,580
Danish	Dansk	da	56.64	315,091	12,287,367	987,235
German	Deutsch	de	93.7	3,137,491	266,611,815	8,588,485
Zazaki	Zazaki	diq	2.21	42,709	554,499	64,349
Greek	Ελληνικά	el	49.46	271,143	11,711,584	755,430
Emilian-Romagnol	Emiliàn e rumagnòl	eml	12.58	14,188	172,941	37,672
English	English	en	1368.28	7,211,720	1,360,473,145	65,942,035
Esperanto	Esperanto	eo	16.72	387,982	9,410,992	870,538
Spanish	Español	es	190.61	2,126,515	174,009,125	8,685,838
Estonian	Eesti	et	21.66	260,970	7,189,022	616,737
Basque	Euskara	eu	14.46	492,047	10,876,586	1,082,192
Persian	فارسی	fa	154.33	1,080,344	43,965,578	6,065,315
Finnish	Suomi	fi	36.66	621,726	24,071,946	1,588,869
Faroese	Føroyskt	fo	33.74	14,219	388,137	41,093
French	Français	fr	280.39	2,770,400	237,512,536	14,055,493
North Frisian	Nordfriisk	frr	11.84	21,281	281,882	53,039
West Frisian	Frysk	fy	27.11	60,377	1,233,596	180,688
Irish	Gaeilge	ga	7.64	64,200	1,318,651	117,080
Scottish Gaelic	Gàidhlig	gd	19.46	16,057	582,191	32,896
Galician	Galego	gl	34.97	232,545	7,505,441	631,382
Gorontalo	Hulontalo	gor	1.17	15,107	67,522	25,049
Gujarati	ગુજરાતી	gu	77.22	30,860	900,997	136,356
Hausa	Hausa / هَوُسَ	ha	1.05	106,433	885,302	151,523
Fiji Hindi	Fiji Hindi	hif	77.07	12,390	336,256	57,284
Hebrew	עברית	he	261.68	401,291	43,545,471	1,674,095
Hindi	हिन्दी	hi	242.06	170,548	6,574,080	1,391,160
Croatian	Hrvatski	hr	20.43	234,319	7,545,804	509,530
Upper Sorbian	Hornjoserbsce	hsb	25.99	14,269	390,397	36,517
Haitian	Krèyol ayisyen	ht	0.84	72,024	881,304	93,592
Hungarian	Magyar	hu	60.93	571,381	29,163,099	1,623,862
Armenian	Հայերեն	hy	63.34	330,018	10,830,358	1,206,772
Interlingua	Interlingua	ia	4.19	30,476	694,000	46,656
Indonesian	Bahasa Indonesia	id	132.74	786,039	29,451,940	4,210,053
Ilokano	Ilokano	ilo	72.53	15,527	405,744	70,742
Ido	Ido	io	5.18	62,960	1,124,154	107,209
Icelandic	Íslenska	is	32.6	61,156	1,968,088	161,043
Italian	Italiano	it	207.11	1,978,458	151,417,031	8,869,577
Japanese	日本語	ja	93.07	1,510,851	110,146,872	4,435,965
Javanese	Basa Jawa	jv	20.47	75,329	1,749,337	186,669
Georgian	ქართული	ka	64.53	197,435	5,445,910	808,532
Kazakh	Қазақша	kk	16.38	244,336	3,628,976	668,792
Kannada	ಕನ್ನಡ	kn	107.97	35,219	1,371,842	160,324
Korean	한국어	ko	163.9	754,720	42,074,229	3,568,667
Kashmiri	کٲشُر	ks	10.03	11,187	145,132	26,257
Kurdish	Kurdî	ku	35.9	91,915	2,079,511	301,682
Kirghiz	Кыргызча	ky	2.1	76,495	649,779	125,180
Latin	Latina	la	15.65	141,987	3,963,753	295,306
Luxembourgish	Lëtzebuergesch	lb	23.51	67,483	2,682,976	143,042
Limburgish	Limburgs	li	87.59	15,213	485,439	68,823
Ligurian	Lìgure	lij	20.47	11,573	271,643	28,548
Ladin	Ladin	lld	0.002	183,204	252,425	191,033
Lombard	Lumbaart	lmo	7.24	80,175	1,327,976	153,495
Lithuanian	Lietuvių	lt	31.34	226,364	7,869,521	566,312
Latvian	Latviešu	lv	69.54	144,441	4,488,954	575,855
Maithili	मैथिली	mai	29.16	14,354	275,008	46,083
Banyumasan	Basa Banyumasan	map-bms	10.12	13,975	222,229	30,426
Malagasy	Malagasy	mg	10.32	103,490	1,146,721	262,605
Meadow Mari	Олык Марий (Olyk Marij)	mhr	20.83	11,325	203,161	31,762
Minangkabau	Bahaso Minangkabau	min	8.041	229,790	3,350,071	475,203
Macedonian	Македонски	mk	67.98	163,205	5,585,949	606,653
Malayalam	മലയാളം	ml	221	88,234	4,387,454	554,574
Mongolian	Монгол	mn	73.61	27,841	861,013	115,225
Meitei	ꯃꯤꯇꯩꯂꯣꯟ	mni	1.68	10,547	62,066	17,883
Marathi	मराठी	mr	41.07	102,370	2,691,103	333,215
Hill Mari	Кырык Мары (Kyryk Mary)	mrj	5.76	10,430	108,147	21,626
Malay	Bahasa Melayu	ms	16.73	440,030	6,891,376	1,187,125
Burmese language	မြန်မာဘာသာ	my	7.97	111,290	1,043,291	271,649
Mazandarani	مَزِروني	mzn	5.69	64,716	390,285	165,176
Neapolitan	Nnapulitano	nap	10.65	14,966	671,953	24,243
Low Saxon	Plattdüütsch	nds	7.97	85,910	1,070,521	187,397
Nepali	नेपाली	ne	94.89	29,938	1,359,318	114,625
Newari	नेवारी	new	28.79	74,242	1,120,896	269,601
Dutch	Nederlands	nl	19.87	2,223,469	71,456,130	4,789,829
Norwegian (Nynorsk)	Nynorsk	nn	14.3	178,135	3,653,711	401,381
Norwegian (Bokmål)	Norsk (Bokmål)	no	42.02	686,746	25,814,519	1,891,819
Navajo	Diné bizaad	nv	3.18	22,667	308,921	36,574
Occitan	Occitan	oc	10.56	90,817	2,492,019	167,294
Oriya	ଓଡ଼ିଆ	or	68.1	20,965	588,253	87,810
Ossetian	Иронау	os	50.56	21,756	593,819	77,722
Punjabi	ਪੰਜਾਬੀ	pa	21.82	59,624	840,917	193,099
Polish	Polski	pl	37.63	1,702,157	80,017,760	4,051,958
Piedmontese	Piemontèis	pms	1.76	71,542	884,629	104,143
Western Panjabi	شاہ مکھی پنجابی	pnb	4.23	75,635	705,882	146,451
Pashto	پښتو	ps	32.4	21,325	364,739	77,153
Portuguese	Português	pt	209.59	1,178,374	72,479,932	6,146,101
Quechua	Runa Simi	qu	22.77	24,545	688,411	58,762
Romanian	Română	ro	123.14	545,990	17,813,905	3,054,993
Russian	Русский	ru	166.89	2,110,451	153,733,864	8,534,239
Sanskrit	संस्कृतम्	sa	189.49	12,518	499,263	82,614
Sakha	Саха тыла	sah	32.15	18,214	428,605	55,315
Sicilian	Sicilianu	scn	17.57	26,311	779,198	55,834
Scots	Scots	sco	61.05	34,250	912,243	138,543
Sindhi	سنڌي، سندھی ، सिन्ध	sd	37.44	22,028	396,187	84,145
Serbo-Croatian	Srpskohrvatski / Српскохрватски	sh	750.42	461,785	42,636,032	4,630,767
Shan	လိၵ်ႈတႆး	shn	3.69	19,933	134,330	41,129
Sinhalese	සිංහල	si	156.01	25,608	795,286	176,138
Simple English	Simple English	simple	62.77	283,446	10,904,356	944,294
Slovak	Slovenčina	sk	23.92	260,569	8,225,514	606,643
Slovenian	Slovenščina	sl	32.37	198,390	6,702,686	509,651
Albanian	Shqip	sq	40.21	106,077	3,007,133	328,338
Serbian	Српски	sr	179.15	706,601	31,054,309	4,173,860
Sundanese	Basa Sunda	su	2.51	62,942	699,321	100,768
Swedish	Svenska	sv	18.97	2,626,682	59,400,719	6,374,045
Swahili	Kiswahili	sw	5.61	121,171	1,577,382	230,956
Silesian	Ślůnsko	szl	0.38	60,853	386,682	77,554
Tamil	தமிழ்	ta	40.41	187,731	4,593,797	629,531
Telugu	తెలుగు	te	62.71	126,199	4,773,176	424,092
Tajik	Тоҷикӣ	tg	10.49	118,758	1,480,512	288,540
Thai	ไทย	th	323.5	185,357	13,112,551	1,189,468
Tagalog	Tagalog	tl	147.64	49,141	2,210,291	249,924
Turkish	Türkçe	tr	170.31	691,054	37,436,915	3,414,819
Tatar	Татарча	tt	4.6	708,945	5,982,111	1,460,651
Ukrainian	Українська	uk	68.11	1,428,554	48,339,894	5,351,318
Urdu	اردو	ur	49.2	655,350	11,628,824	2,983,947
Uzbek	O‘zbek	uz	33.8	350,775	6,206,630	1,275,190
Venetian	Vèneto	vec	9.65	69,617	1,228,556	143,559
Vietnamese	Tiếng Việt	vi	104.55	1,303,632	75,282,872	4,597,678
Volapük	Volapük	vo	95.11	53,459	3,334,306	171,802
Walloon	Walon	wa	26.48	12,991	425,272	31,056
Waray-Waray	Winaray	war	4.32	1,266,914	7,735,594	2,870,521
Wu	吴语	wuu	1.67	48,289	397,181	75,463
Mingrelian	მარგალური (Margaluri)	xmf	4.77	22,405	251,108	42,538
Yiddish	ייִדיש	yi	45.07	15,757	599,875	44,601
Yoruba	Yorùbá	yo	4.23	38,331	623,120	63,498
Standard Moroccan Tamazight	ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ ⵜⴰⵏⴰⵡⴰⵢⵜ	zgh	36.31	12,241	177,413	52,279
Chinese	中文	zh	220.02	1,544,839	93,264,813	8,436,905
Classical Chinese	古文 / 文言文	zh-classical	213.88	14,110	443,170	122,682
Min Nan	Bân-lâm-gú	zh-min-nan	6.7	434,336	3,281,918	1,079,287
Cantonese	粵語	zh-yue	11.31	151,162	2,433,296	341,592
Zulu	isiZulu	zu	6.78	12,428	126,177	27,544
Language	Language (local)	Wiki	Depth	Articles	Edits	Total Pages

Trends

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	1368	94	280	38	93	207	20	210	191	167	19	220	42	37	43	68	170	123	95	50	61	17	24	57	133	262	290	164	31	179
1 Jul 2026	1366	94	280	37	93	206	20	209	191	167	19	220	42	37	43	68	171	123	99	50	61	17	24	57	134	262	290	164	31	179
1 Jan 2026	1344	94	276	37	93	198	20	207	193	168	19	217	45	37	42	66	186	119	126	50	61	17	24	57	140	267	289	166	31	175
1 Jul 2025	1318	94	271	36	92	193	20	204	195	163	18	213	47	38	41	61	189	126	154	50	60	17	24	57	136	268	285	171	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

Variants of the metric

Visualization for a set of Wikipedias with variant of the metric where

depth^{*}={\frac {words}{articles}}\cdot {\frac {non{\underline {}}articles}{pages}}

Notes

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External links

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