This is an historical dataset for the size of Wikipedia, in its original tabular presentation, archived from Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia, which now contains the most up-to-date data in a simpler format.
The figures below are for the year 2002:
key:
- est: estimate
- mpacIII: main page article count from the Phase III software
- mpacII: main page article count from the Phase II software
- spII: stats page article count from the Phase II software
- all recent dates should be in Wikipedia server time, not user's local time
Note: The phase III software appears to give the same figure for pages on the main page and the stats pages: the phase II software used two different bases for the estimates, so the difference matters.
Date Source est spII mpacII mpacIII September 21 44920 September 17 43962 September 16 43762 September 10 42268 September 9 42021 September 7 41559 September 5 41141 September 4 40934 September 3 40718 August 31 40093 August 22 38780 August 14 37508 August 12 obs. 37259 May 17 WA ~33333 April 3 WA ~32000 Mar 28 WA ~30000
Feb 4 WA ~23000 Jan 9 LMS,MF ~20000