How many articles are on Wikipedia?

The short answer: over 65 million — and it never stops growing. Live activity below.

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As of 2026, the total number of Wikipedia articles stands at more than 65 million, across roughly 340 language editions — about 300 of which are actively edited. English Wikipedia, the largest edition, passed seven million articles — yet it is only around a tenth of the total. About 15,000 new articles are added every day across all editions (English Wikipedia alone adds ~500–600), and the live numbers on this page come straight from Wikimedia EventStreams, the public feed of every change saved on Wikipedia.

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Which editions are being edited right now

Geo-located article edits in the last minute, by language edition.

How many new articles appeared today

Counting from the live feed since midnight UTC, across every language edition.

Every new page in the encyclopedia's main namespace is counted the moment it is saved, including the ones bots create and the ones deleted again hours later as unsuitable. That is why this figure runs higher than the ~15,000 a day usually quoted, which counts articles that survived. Closed daily totals going back 90 days live in the daily moments digest.

How big is Wikipedia?

Measured in articles: over 65 million across all languages. Measured in pages — counting talk pages, redirects and project pages — English Wikipedia alone passes 60 million. Measured in bytes, it is surprisingly small: the compressed text of English Wikipedia's current articles is about 25 GB, small enough to fit on a laptop. Add every past revision and the media library on Wikimedia Commons, and the full project runs to hundreds of terabytes. And it keeps growing — see how often Wikipedia is updated.

The numbers, question by question

How many Wikipedia articles are there?

Across all of its language editions, Wikipedia has more than 65 million articles as of 2026. They are spread over roughly 340 editions, of which about 300 see active editing. The count grows by thousands of new articles every day.

How many articles does English Wikipedia have?

English Wikipedia has more than seven million articles, making it the largest edition — yet it accounts for only around a tenth of Wikipedia's total article count across all languages.

How many Wikipedia pages are there?

Far more than articles. Counting talk pages, redirects, categories and project pages, English Wikipedia alone has over 60 million pages. The word "articles" refers only to actual encyclopedia entries in the main namespace.

How many language editions does Wikipedia have?

Roughly 340 language editions exist, and about 300 of them are actively edited. At any given minute, edits are typically arriving in dozens of languages at once — the mix follows daylight around the planet, as the live table above shows.

How many editors does Wikipedia have?

Roughly a quarter of a million people make at least one edit in a typical month across all editions, and a dedicated core of tens of thousands make more than 100 edits a month. The most prolific human editor has made over five million edits.

How many new articles are created per day?

On the order of 15,000 new articles survive a typical day across all language editions, and English Wikipedia alone adds roughly 500–600 after quality checks. The raw number of pages created is higher, because bots create articles in bulk in some editions and a share of new pages is deleted again within hours. This page counts the raw number live, as each page is saved — today's running total is in the section above.

How many gigabytes is Wikipedia?

Surprisingly few for the text: the compressed text of English Wikipedia's current articles is only about 25 GB — small enough to fit on a laptop. With full edit history and the media library on Wikimedia Commons, the complete project runs to hundreds of terabytes.

See it happening on a globe

Every geo-located edit counted here lights up, live, on a realistic 3D globe — where the article's subject actually is on Earth. It is free, open source, and strangely calming.

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Sources

Totals are approximations based on Wikipedia's own live statistics: Size of Wikipedia, List of Wikipedias, and Wikimedia Statistics. Live activity is measured directly from the Wikimedia EventStreams feed — nothing on this page is sampled or cached.