Wikipedia is a large collaborative knowledge project measured in articles, languages, readers, edits, contributors, and supporting infrastructure. The figures below span the Wikimedia Foundation’s 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 annual reports, Wikimedia Foundation pages, Wikimedia communications, and Wikistats observations for April 2026. Because the sources describe different periods and use different definitions, each measurement is kept with its original date and source label.
Contents
- Scale of the encyclopedia
- Languages and Wikimedia Commons
- Readers and page views
- Editors, edits, and new accounts
- Media requests and technical activity
- Donors, affiliates, and the Wikimedia Foundation
Scale of the encyclopedia
The Wikimedia Foundation’s 2024-2025 Annual Report said that Wikipedia had more than 66 million articles. The same report described Wikipedia and its sister projects as providing access to more than 66 million articles across over 300 languages every day. These are broad scale indicators: one counts the encyclopedia’s articles, while the other describes daily access across the wider Wikimedia project family.
The 2023-2024 Annual Report gave an earlier article count of more than 60 million. That figure belongs to the 2023-2024 reporting period and should be read as a historical annual-report measurement, not as a separately verified current count. The difference between the two annual-report descriptions is therefore useful for showing how the reported scale changed between reporting periods, but it does not establish a precise growth rate.
The Wikimedia Foundation home page, dated May 28, 2026 in the supplied source record, described Wikipedia as having more than 65 million articles. The Wikimedia Foundation Wikipedia page, also dated May 28, 2026 in that record, used two other descriptions: Wikipedia had nearly 300 languages and more than 45 million articles. These statements are not interchangeable with the annual-report totals because they come from different pages and use different wording. They are best retained as source-specific descriptions rather than combined into a single estimate.
| Source and period | Reported article or project scale |
|---|---|
| Wikimedia Foundation 2023-2024 Annual Report | More than 60 million Wikipedia articles |
| Wikimedia Foundation 2024-2025 Annual Report | More than 66 million Wikipedia articles |
| Wikimedia Foundation home page, May 28, 2026 | More than 65 million Wikipedia articles |
| Wikimedia Foundation Wikipedia page, May 28, 2026 | More than 45 million Wikipedia articles |
The table shows why dates and source labels matter in Wikipedia statistics. A page description, an annual-report statement, and a project-wide description may use different editorial update schedules or scopes. Reporting the figures without those labels would make the comparison look more exact than the supplied evidence allows.
Languages and Wikimedia Commons
Language availability is another way to describe Wikipedia’s reach. The Wikimedia Foundation’s 2024-2025 Annual Report said Wikipedia was available in 300+ languages. It also said that Wikipedia and its sister projects enabled daily access to more than 66 million articles across over 300 languages. The Wikimedia Foundation home page, dated May 28, 2026 in the supplied record, likewise described Wikipedia as available in 300+ languages.
The Wikimedia Foundation Wikipedia page used the phrase “nearly 300 languages” in its May 28, 2026 source record. That wording differs from “300+ languages” and should remain attributed to the specific page. It may reflect a different editorial description, but the supplied facts do not explain the reason for the wording difference.
Wikipedia’s collaborative ecosystem also includes Wikimedia Commons. The Wikimedia Foundation’s 2024-2025 Annual Report reported 135 million freely usable media files on Wikimedia Commons. This figure measures the media repository, not the number of Wikipedia articles, and it helps show that Wikimedia’s shared knowledge infrastructure includes images and other media alongside encyclopedia text.
Readers and page views
The 2023-2024 Annual Report stated that Wikipedia received over 15 billion views a month. The Wikimedia Foundation Wikipedia page, dated May 28, 2026 in the supplied source record, described Wikipedia as having hundreds of millions of monthly readers. These measurements describe different units: page views count viewing events, while monthly readers describe people or readership at a broader level. They should not be treated as two versions of the same metric.
Wikistats reported 23 billion total page views in April 2026. Its same April 2026 record reported 301 billion total page views for the last 12 months through April 2026. The monthly figure is a point-in-time monthly observation, while the 12-month figure is a trailing period. Both are labeled as Wikistats measurements rather than annual-report claims.
Wikistats also recorded page views from several countries in April 2026:
- The United States accounted for 3 billion page views.
- Japan accounted for 850 million page views.
- The United Kingdom accounted for 763 million page views.
- Germany accounted for 726 million page views.
These country figures describe the geography included in the supplied Wikistats record. They do not represent all countries, and the source facts do not provide a complete country ranking or a definition of how geographic attribution was assigned.
Editors, edits, and new accounts
Editing activity shows the collaborative side of Wikipedia. The Wikimedia Foundation’s 2024-2025 Annual Report reported more than 340 edits every minute. The 2023-2024 Annual Report reported an average of 5.7 edits per second. These are source-specific descriptions from different annual-report periods, so they are not presented as a single continuous time series.
The 2023-2024 Annual Report said that Wikimedia projects were edited by over 275,000 editors every month worldwide. A Wikimedia Foundation communications page from May 2022 said more than 300,000 editors contributed to Wikimedia projects every month. The communication page also said Wikipedia had more than 73 million registered user accounts. The 2022 communication figures are historical statements and are retained with their original period.
Wikistats recorded 44 million edits in April 2026 and 517 million edits over the last 12 months through April 2026. It separately reported 23 million user edits in April 2026 and 293 million user edits over the same trailing 12-month period. Since the supplied facts distinguish total edits from user edits, the categories should not be added together or assumed to be identical.
New account activity was also recorded by Wikistats. In April 2026, it showed 180,000 new registered users. Over the last 12 months through April 2026, it showed 2 million new registered users. These are account-creation measurements for the stated periods, not counts of active editors.
Media requests and technical activity
Wikistats reported 87 billion total media requests in April 2026 and 1 trillion total media requests over the last 12 months through April 2026. A media request is a different measure from a page view, so these figures describe technical delivery or access activity rather than readership. The supplied data does not define the exact request scope, and no conversion between requests and people is implied here.
The same Wikistats record reported byte-difference measurements. In April 2026, net bytes difference was 40 GB and absolute bytes difference was 46 GB. For the last 12 months through April 2026, net bytes difference was 341 GB and absolute bytes difference was 411 GB. Net and absolute values are separate source metrics: net difference preserves direction, while absolute difference describes magnitude without that direction. The supplied facts do not identify the underlying operations behind these byte measurements, so they are reported without further interpretation.
Together, the media-request and byte-difference figures indicate that Wikimedia activity can be described at several technical layers: page views, edits, media requests, and data-volume differences. Keeping those layers separate avoids treating infrastructure measurements as direct substitutes for engagement measures.
Donors, affiliates, and the Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation’s 2023-2024 Annual Report reported 8 million donors from over 200 countries. It also reported 191 affiliates worldwide. These figures describe two parts of the support network: donors and organized affiliates. They are not counts of editors, readers, or registered accounts.
The same annual report gave the following financial figures for 2023-2024:
- Total support and revenue: 185,383,511 USD.
- Total expenses: 178,471,109 USD.
- Salaries and benefits: 106,793,960 USD.
- Awards and grants: 26,820,080 USD.
- Internet hosting: 3,116,445 USD.
- In-kind service expenses: 263,476 USD.
- Donation processing expenses: 7,547,718 USD.
- Professional service expenses: 13,090,040 USD.
- Other operating expenses: 10,798,140 USD.
- Travel and conferences: 5,824,979 USD.
- Depreciation and amortization: 4,216,271 USD.
The report also stated that net assets without donor restrictions were 265,859,067 USD at the end of 2023-2024, while net assets with donor restrictions were 5,696,323 USD. Total liabilities and net assets were reported as 286,759,938 USD for the same period.
These financial figures describe the Wikimedia Foundation’s reported finances for 2023-2024. They should not be read as the operating cost of an individual Wikipedia language edition, the value of Wikipedia itself, or the total economic value of volunteer contributions. The source labels identify them as Foundation annual-report figures, while the activity statistics above come from annual reports, Foundation pages, communications, or Wikistats observations with different periods and scopes.