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The depth or editing depth of Wikipedia is one of several possible rough indicators of the encyclopedia's collaborative quality, showing how frequently its articles are updated.

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 1262.6 ( = 20.17 × 62.59).

Among editions with at least 10,000 articles, the Ladin wikipedia has the least depth, at 0.002 ( = 1.27 × 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 7.09 12,971 151,060 27,783
Afrikaans Afrikaans af 37.67 117,968 2,684,145 396,099
Alemannic Alemannisch als 28.35 30,535 1,054,941 73,433
Amharic አማርኛ am 33.67 15,373 380,960 46,557
Aragonese Aragonés an 77.62 46,563 2,196,833 155,813
Arabic العربية ar 271.56 1,238,003 67,398,357 8,470,335
Moroccan Arabic داريجة ary 186.17 10,177 367,056 71,436
Egyptian Arabic مصرى arz 0.46 1,624,176 10,229,657 2,128,951
Assamese অসমীয়া as 163.57 13,558 427,612 95,504
Asturian Asturianu ast 10.26 136,403 4,215,996 240,829
Kotava Kotava avk 0.19 29,387 144,854 35,772
Azerbaijani Azərbaycanca az 46.2 201,173 7,707,348 574,760
South Azerbaijani تۆرکجه azb 5.1 243,599 1,561,876 577,659
Bashkir Башҡорт ba 24.55 63,723 1,275,671 183,443
Balinese Bali ban 3.65 24,978 192,242 49,102
Bavarian Boarisch bar 71.34 27,169 842,857 110,110
Samogitian Žemaitėška bat-smg 6.56 17,229 360,851 29,936
Central Bicolano Bikol bcl 15.14 17,487 276,411 44,918
Belarusian Беларуская be 23.45 245,042 4,805,778 696,919
Belarusian (Taraškievica) Беларуская (тарашкевіца) be-tarask 36.05 87,221 2,526,695 252,908
Bulgarian Български bg 28.58 299,792 12,293,877 675,452
Bengali বাংলা bn 298.99 155,843 7,502,618 1,260,276
Bishnupriya Manipuri বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী bpy 32.86 25,087 893,975 63,377
Breton Brezhoneg br 8.91 86,608 2,105,479 157,273
Bosnian Bosanski bs 86.49 93,715 3,623,552 373,548
Buginese Basa Ugi bug 0.73 15,846 202,854 20,119
Catalan Català ca 40.05 756,417 33,689,607 1,890,325
Chechen Нохчийн ce 8.4 601,377 10,412,253 1,190,935
Min Dong Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄ cdo 3.11 16,533 101,595 33,206
Cebuano Sinugboanong Binisaya ceb 2.18 6,117,045 35,048,565 11,229,090
Sorani کوردی ckb 32.96 67,604 1,265,419 234,768
Crimean Tatar Qırımtatarca crh 3.54 28,398 230,109 54,362
Czech Čeština cs 50.75 550,737 24,099,850 1,543,732
Chuvash Чăваш cv 7.81 56,344 832,333 114,835
Welsh Cymraeg cy 14.61 280,852 12,925,296 489,789
Danish Dansk da 57.52 301,284 11,799,383 949,427
German Deutsch de 93.7 2,931,230 245,690,641 8,075,201
Zazaki Zazaki diq 2.15 41,985 530,799 63,228
Greek Ελληνικά el 55.8 237,686 10,658,864 689,144
Emilian-Romagnol Emiliàn e rumagnòl eml 12.97 13,058 157,013 35,381
English English en 1262.55 6,861,117 1,233,379,309 61,140,705
Esperanto Esperanto eo 17.14 356,749 8,796,917 802,951
Spanish Español es 197.71 1,970,220 161,182,395 8,230,264
Estonian Eesti et 21.23 246,400 6,686,565 581,137
Basque Euskara eu 14.19 438,124 9,847,682 951,020
Persian فارسی fa 152.02 1,008,980 39,906,808 5,717,910
Finnish Suomi fi 38.34 577,591 22,493,222 1,501,678
Faroese Føroyskt fo 33.59 14,113 380,569 40,939
French Français fr 264.67 2,626,430 216,839,404 13,147,850
North Frisian Nordfriisk frr 12.49 19,187 262,899 48,226
West Frisian Frysk fy 29.47 54,141 1,159,867 165,007
Irish Gaeilge ga 6.47 60,535 1,225,470 105,792
Scottish Gaelic Gàidhlig gd 18.59 15,981 576,496 32,290
Galician Galego gl 27.78 212,536 6,795,403 523,443
Gorontalo Hulontalo gor 0.76 14,770 56,482 22,966
Gujarati ગુજરાતી gu 70.93 30,425 868,561 129,285
Hausa Hausa / هَوُسَ ha 1.92 49,110 488,396 75,960
Fiji Hindi Fiji Hindi hif 73.69 11,148 312,427 49,078
Hebrew עברית he 269.71 359,089 39,117,065 1,522,554
Hindi हिन्दी hi 240.27 163,024 6,214,657 1,333,612
Croatian Hrvatski hr 18.82 221,512 6,983,549 471,079
Upper Sorbian Hornjoserbsce hsb 26.09 13,938 383,384 35,644
Haitian Krèyol ayisyen ht 0.72 69,704 848,212 88,861
Hungarian Magyar hu 60.77 544,456 27,273,207 1,559,277
Armenian Հայերեն hy 63.03 312,227 10,055,920 1,150,733
Interlingua Interlingua ia 3.95 29,667 669,207 44,957
Indonesian Bahasa Indonesia id 138.52 700,000 26,084,220 3,875,652
Ilokano Ilokano ilo 72.9 15,385 401,413 70,391
Ido Ido io 2.34 49,447 1,050,654 68,800
Icelandic Íslenska is 31.34 58,761 1,868,348 152,855
Italian Italiano it 188.92 1,875,561 140,166,075 8,055,697
Japanese 日本語にほんご ja 90.78 1,424,540 101,124,916 4,186,089
Javanese Basa Jawa jv 20.38 74,074 1,689,849 184,593
Georgian ქართული ka 31.24 173,868 4,675,874 487,720
Kazakh Қазақша kk 15.1 236,571 3,358,693 636,946
Kannada ಕನ್ನಡ kn 97.65 32,511 1,234,229 141,163
Korean 한국어 ko 166.43 679,460 37,539,380 3,264,272
Kurdish Kurdî ku 31.34 80,046 1,797,821 245,722
Kirghiz Кыргызча ky 0.69 78,776 483,996 110,080
Latin Latina la 14.58 139,224 3,834,297 283,849
Luxembourgish Lëtzebuergesch lb 25.38 63,619 2,531,983 138,616
Limburgish Limburgs li 84.53 14,972 464,616 67,399
Ligurian Lìgure lij 18.62 11,270 248,614 27,423
Ladin Ladin lld 0.002 180,760 238,238 187,615
Lombard Lumbaart lmo 7.99 74,216 1,277,064 144,894
Lithuanian Lietuvių lt 29.94 217,968 7,336,929 542,205
Latvian Latviešu lv 72.33 128,992 4,092,672 520,056
Maithili मैथिली mai 25.79 14,115 262,773 43,165
Banyumasan Basa Banyumasan map-bms 10.13 13,935 220,353 30,414
Malagasy Malagasy mg 10.6 97,654 1,080,966 250,825
Meadow Mari Олык Марий (Olyk Marij) mhr 18.37 11,359 198,415 30,419
Minangkabau Bahaso Minangkabau min 7.663 227,695 3,154,134 471,362
Macedonian Македонски mk 77.17 145,550 5,231,766 566,150
Malayalam മലയാളം ml 200.67 85,817 4,013,941 525,815
Mongolian Монгол mn 88.68 24,025 786,687 107,758
Meitei ꯃꯤꯇꯩꯂꯣꯟ mni 1.37 10,429 57,495 17,081
Marathi मराठी mr 38.96 97,331 2,454,716 314,936
Hill Mari Кырык Мары (Kyryk Mary) mrj 4.6 10,432 105,998 20,194
Malay Bahasa Melayu ms 19.39 387,153 6,263,323 1,102,399
Burmese language မြန်မာဘာသာ my 5.46 108,107 840,542 244,249
Mazandarani مَزِروني mzn 2.06 36,397 228,922 64,043
Neapolitan Nnapulitano nap 10.55 14,884 668,362 24,056
Low Saxon Plattdüütsch nds 6.8 84,924 1,025,078 176,947
Nepali नेपाली ne 70.71 31,285 1,232,501 109,808
Newari नेवारी new 8.62 72,359 867,743 164,996
Dutch Nederlands nl 19.18 2,163,791 67,748,165 4,644,995
Norwegian (Nynorsk) Nynorsk nn 14.99 170,156 3,553,107 387,799
Norwegian (Bokmål) Norsk (Bokmål) no 47.7 633,734 24,546,186 1,828,189
Navajo Diné bizaad nv 3.45 22,645 307,587 37,284
Occitan Occitan oc 10.15 89,811 2,432,049 164,157
Oriya ଓଡ଼ିଆ or 76.88 18,422 538,624 81,100
Ossetian Иронау os 58.29 18,758 562,732 68,855
Punjabi ਪੰਜਾਬੀ pa 21.64 54,734 762,964 177,554
Polish Polski pl 34.18 1,624,234 74,258,702 3,761,378
Piedmontese Piemontèis pms 2.24 68,896 872,080 104,623
Western Panjabi شاہ مکھی پنجابی pnb 3.4 72,957 666,720 133,084
Pashto پښتو ps 30.01 19,590 329,600 68,518
Portuguese Português pt 197.43 1,130,221 68,185,071 5,736,449
Quechua Runa Simi qu 22.96 24,059 673,218 57,855
Romanian Română ro 146.98 464,841 16,354,094 2,794,360
Russian Русский ru 158.25 1,991,961 139,066,355 8,003,485
Sanskrit संस्कृतम् sa 177.99 12,204 487,343 76,867
Sakha Саха тыла sah 30.19 17,699 409,106 52,555
Sicilian Sicilianu scn 16.8 26,287 739,415 55,917
Scots Scots sco 58.06 34,588 890,179 138,564
Sindhi سنڌي، سندھی ، सिन्ध sd 27.89 17,900 282,453 62,290
Serbo-Croatian Srpskohrvatski / Српскохрватски sh 752.41 459,884 42,099,199 4,654,178
Shan လိၵ်ႈတႆး shn 3.71 13,635 64,626 32,165
Sinhalese සිංහල si 167.33 21,026 691,726 145,965
Simple English Simple English simple 59.88 254,728 9,655,003 834,065
Slovak Slovenčina sk 23.29 249,628 7,868,019 575,377
Slovenian Slovenščina sl 31.47 186,124 6,258,669 473,263
Albanian Shqip sq 37.05 98,575 2,675,464 299,238
Serbian Српски sr 169.92 692,028 28,297,170 4,144,146
Sundanese Basa Sunda su 2.45 61,780 670,862 98,940
Swedish Svenska sv 17.7 2,591,555 55,402,602 6,254,812
Swahili Kiswahili sw 10.06 82,357 1,342,686 177,242
Silesian Ślůnsko szl 0.38 58,139 370,365 74,079
Tamil தமிழ் ta 41.22 166,815 4,047,477 568,008
Telugu తెలుగు te 83.54 98,318 4,238,435 360,334
Tajik Тоҷикӣ tg 10.48 113,426 1,405,825 276,226
Thai ไทย th 336.51 165,775 11,643,661 1,100,821
Tagalog Tagalog tl 147.25 47,472 2,118,578 242,274
Turkish Türkçe tr 173.83 617,459 33,540,310 3,087,386
Tatar Татарча tt 2.15 501,756 4,205,919 828,131
Ukrainian Українська uk 58.71 1,339,299 43,122,012 4,742,607
Urdu اردو ur 104.84 208,614 6,297,156 1,102,334
Uzbek O‘zbek uz 29.29 299,985 4,616,302 1,088,252
Venetian Vèneto vec 9.14 69,307 1,173,202 142,258
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt vi 724.22 1,294,744 71,520,135 19,478,548
Volapük Volapük vo 207.88 37,475 3,301,602 154,269
Walloon Walon wa 25.98 12,404 406,721 29,403
Waray-Waray Winaray war 4.25 1,266,572 7,602,534 2,871,381
Wu 吴语 wuu 0.71 43,960 320,197 59,946
Mingrelian მარგალური (Margaluri) xmf 4.18 21,337 227,070 39,531
Yiddish ייִדיש yi 46.34 15,463 593,445 44,184
Yoruba Yorùbá yo 5.03 34,186 584,424 58,415
Chinese ちゅうぶん zh 209.81 1,433,196 83,343,246 7,773,160
Classical Chinese 古文こぶん / 文言もんごんぶん zh-classical 189.33 13,458 407,558 109,399
Min Nan Bân-lâm-gú zh-min-nan 6.49 433,131 3,211,762 1,069,984
Cantonese 粵語 zh-yue 10.35 142,468 2,159,174 318,505
Zulu isiZulu zu 6.45 11,401 108,616 25,410
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 1263 94 265 34 91 189 19 197 198 158 18 210 48 38 40 59 174 147 208 51 61 17 23 58 139 270 272 166 30 170
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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