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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

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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 1287 ( = 20.29 × 63.44).

Among editions with at least 10,000 articles, the Ladin Wikipedia has the least depth, at 0.002 ( = 1.28 × 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.

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 [[[Special:PermanentLink/703750 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

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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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Language Language (local) Wiki Depth Articles Edits Total Pages
Acehnese Acehnese ace 7.15 12,971 151,813 27,817
Afrikaans Afrikaans af 36.4 120,864 2,720,259 400,747
Alemannic Alemannisch als 28.14 30,732 1,059,986 73,728
Amharic አማርኛ am 33.85 15,374 382,148 46,612
Aragonese Aragonés an 80.14 47,310 2,232,984 161,056
Arabic العربية ar 278.61 1,248,099 68,970,114 8,607,820
Moroccan Arabic داريجة ary 217.29 10,372 389,823 79,353
Egyptian Arabic مصرى arz 0.51 1,625,951 10,852,453 2,139,876
Assamese অসমীয়া as 158.33 14,453 457,691 99,060
Asturian Asturianu ast 10.53 136,898 4,317,573 242,099
Kotava Kotava avk 0.19 29,811 145,674 36,221
Azerbaijani Azərbaycanca az 50 200,982 7,892,103 589,330
South Azerbaijani تۆرکجه azb 5.1 243,896 1,567,807 578,442
Bashkir Башҡорт ba 24.59 63,762 1,279,506 183,489
Balinese Bali ban 3.57 26,925 205,005 52,747
Bavarian Boarisch bar 71.62 27,167 844,738 110,210
Samogitian Žemaitėška bat-smg 6.57 17,256 361,544 30,001
Central Bicolano Bikol bcl 14.12 18,130 280,531 45,593
Belarusian Беларуская be 23.15 249,188 4,883,508 704,625
Belarusian (Taraškievica) Беларуская (тарашкевіца) be-tarask 36.88 88,164 2,584,164 257,020
Bulgarian Български bg 28.76 301,841 12,427,500 680,651
Bengali বাংলা bn 297.42 161,195 7,836,777 1,288,352
Bishnupriya Manipuri বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী bpy 32.95 25,087 894,375 63,441
Breton Brezhoneg br 8.8 87,350 2,118,217 158,156
Bosnian Bosanski bs 85.22 94,180 3,662,576 370,835
Buginese Basa Ugi bug 0.74 15,845 203,003 20,128
Catalan Català ca 40.55 765,482 34,351,033 1,916,986
Chechen Нохчийн ce 8.44 601,434 10,454,915 1,191,068
Min Dong Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄ cdo 3.14 16,554 102,253 33,283
Cebuano Sinugboanong Binisaya ceb 2.18 6,116,881 35,053,318 11,229,446
Sorani کوردی ckb 29.99 73,202 1,383,397 240,285
Crimean Tatar Qırımtatarca crh 3.74 28,444 231,833 55,315
Czech Čeština cs 50.7 558,991 24,470,249 1,565,827
Chuvash Чăваш cv 7.88 56,990 841,677 116,526
Welsh Cymraeg cy 16.63 281,479 13,412,308 503,954
Danish Dansk da 56.98 305,369 11,903,743 959,984
German Deutsch de 93.79 2,971,217 249,901,907 8,176,049
Zazaki Zazaki diq 2.15 42,209 533,634 63,599
Greek Ελληνικά el 55.18 243,481 10,873,223 703,563
Emilian-Romagnol Emiliàn e rumagnòl eml 12.97 13,072 157,475 35,389
English English en 1287.04 6,929,639 1,260,377,477 62,122,036
Esperanto Esperanto eo 17.04 363,234 8,941,088 816,279
Spanish Español es 197.12 1,997,883 163,844,237 8,318,092
Estonian Eesti et 21.09 249,773 6,778,226 587,495
Basque Euskara eu 13.94 449,579 9,995,636 973,442
Persian فارسی fa 152.32 1,023,274 40,755,024 5,778,867
Finnish Suomi fi 38.21 585,582 22,859,231 1,518,547
Faroese Føroyskt fo 33.69 14,136 382,754 40,984
French Français fr 268.07 2,654,763 220,969,855 13,330,874
North Frisian Nordfriisk frr 11.93 20,167 269,615 50,230
West Frisian Frysk fy 29.39 54,846 1,176,439 166,820
Irish Gaeilge ga 6.69 61,238 1,250,268 107,753
Scottish Gaelic Gàidhlig gd 18.81 15,985 577,521 32,409
Galician Galego gl 27.44 217,311 6,912,694 533,594
Gorontalo Hulontalo gor 0.79 14,798 57,751 23,108
Gujarati ગુજરાતી gu 72.43 30,483 874,123 130,861
Hausa Hausa / هَوُسَ ha 2.15 52,470 561,111 81,816
Fiji Hindi Fiji Hindi hif 75.03 11,305 317,121 50,306
Hebrew עברית he 270.69 367,329 40,134,212 1,558,113
Hindi हिन्दी hi 246.05 163,785 6,316,367 1,352,727
Croatian Hrvatski hr 18.92 224,115 7,078,643 477,224
Upper Sorbian Hornjoserbsce hsb 26.09 13,968 384,429 35,714
Haitian Krèyol ayisyen ht 0.83 70,613 860,646 91,535
Hungarian Magyar hu 60.29 551,645 27,650,159 1,573,434
Armenian Հայերեն hy 63.27 314,590 10,166,063 1,159,819
Interlingua Interlingua ia 3.94 29,787 671,672 45,119
Indonesian Bahasa Indonesia id 137.89 714,569 26,657,567 3,940,774
Ilokano Ilokano ilo 72.99 15,391 402,054 70,420
Ido Ido io 2.22 51,887 1,058,660 72,055
Icelandic Íslenska is 31.3 59,498 1,888,399 154,797
Italian Italiano it 190.59 1,896,820 142,415,862 8,168,078
Japanese 日本語 ja 91.13 1,441,612 102,853,482 4,233,766
Javanese Basa Jawa jv 20.3 74,264 1,707,366 184,162
Georgian ქართული ka 30.47 177,027 4,719,523 492,813
Kazakh Қазақша kk 15.33 238,456 3,410,050 644,255
Kannada ಕನ್ನಡ kn 103.35 33,204 1,268,253 148,841
Korean 한국어 ko 166.45 692,835 38,292,773 3,327,979
Kurdish Kurdî ku 27.57 90,423 1,890,613 269,783
Kirghiz Кыргызча ky 0.78 77,097 496,837 108,988
Latin Latina la 14.75 139,728 3,860,216 285,725
Luxembourgish Lëtzebuergesch lb 25.56 64,301 2,577,416 140,097
Limburgish Limburgs li 88.57 15,042 480,273 68,509
Ligurian Lìgure lij 19 11,338 253,626 27,656
Ladin Ladin lld 0.002 180,773 240,814 187,685
Lombard Lumbaart lmo 7.99 74,898 1,289,883 146,189
Lithuanian Lietuvių lt 30.16 220,516 7,443,099 549,590
Latvian Latviešu lv 72.42 131,569 4,189,006 529,723
Maithili मैथिली mai 26.48 14,136 264,535 43,703
Banyumasan Basa Banyumasan map-bms 10.15 13,929 220,760 30,397
Malagasy Malagasy mg 10.58 98,550 1,092,304 252,737
Meadow Mari Олык Марий (Olyk Marij) mhr 18.93 11,332 199,186 30,685
Minangkabau Bahaso Minangkabau min 7.658 228,119 3,159,933 472,136
Macedonian Македонски mk 76.08 148,029 5,297,752 572,445
Malayalam മലയാളം ml 206.56 86,446 4,100,600 535,365
Mongolian Монгол mn 86.12 24,652 799,895 109,163
Meitei ꯃꯤꯇꯩꯂꯣꯟ mni 1.39 10,439 58,203 17,107
Marathi मराठी mr 39.08 98,766 2,508,248 318,932
Hill Mari Кырык Мары (Kyryk Mary) mrj 4.83 10,431 106,489 20,480
Malay Bahasa Melayu ms 18.71 398,560 6,395,757 1,120,106
Burmese language မြန်မာဘာသာ my 5.71 108,552 853,711 248,426
Mazandarani مَزِروني mzn 1.63 50,376 276,340 86,388
Neapolitan Nnapulitano nap 10.55 14,892 668,839 24,070
Low Saxon Plattdüütsch nds 6.94 85,129 1,029,808 178,532
Nepali नेपाली ne 75.86 30,810 1,260,021 110,156
Newari नेवारी new 8.71 72,465 869,503 165,900
Dutch Nederlands nl 19.32 2,175,190 68,462,720 4,672,840
Norwegian (Nynorsk) Nynorsk nn 14.69 172,744 3,575,231 392,004
Norwegian (Bokmål) Norsk (Bokmål) no 47.92 640,394 24,820,153 1,850,985
Navajo Diné bizaad nv 3.45 22,657 307,980 37,305
Occitan Occitan oc 10.15 90,386 2,445,645 165,226
Oriya ଓଡ଼ିଆ or 74.28 19,023 549,984 82,534
Ossetian Иронау os 56.28 19,568 571,055 71,520
Punjabi ਪੰਜਾਬੀ pa 21.94 55,556 777,436 181,159
Polish Polski pl 34.75 1,640,514 75,432,277 3,815,482
Piedmontese Piemontèis pms 2.21 69,212 873,594 104,844
Western Panjabi شاہ مکھی پنجابی pnb 3.52 73,639 675,907 135,468
Pashto پښتو ps 30.76 20,132 342,306 70,969
Portuguese Português pt 199.49 1,140,574 69,048,665 5,815,928
Quechua Runa Simi qu 22.94 24,091 674,678 57,888
Romanian Română ro 128.88 501,773 16,661,772 2,863,089
Russian Русский ru 160.91 2,016,061 141,997,292 8,138,564
Sanskrit संस्कृतम् sa 181.84 12,264 490,423 78,377
Sakha Саха тыла sah 32.5 17,260 412,752 52,280
Sicilian Sicilianu scn 17.34 26,322 758,056 56,152
Scots Scots sco 58.8 34,436 894,010 138,284
Sindhi سنڌي، سندھی ، सिन्ध sd 28.73 18,551 300,079 64,728
Serbo-Croatian Srpskohrvatski / Српскохрватски sh 749.85 460,212 42,304,539 4,628,726
Shan လိၵ်ႈတႆး shn 3.85 13,721 65,907 32,682
Sinhalese සිංහල si 180.2 21,950 730,433 159,746
Simple English Simple English simple 59.93 262,068 9,943,479 858,046
Slovak Slovenčina sk 23.38 251,518 7,936,473 580,414
Slovenian Slovenščina sl 31.91 188,001 6,348,544 480,032
Albanian Shqip sq 37.09 101,089 2,730,255 307,820
Serbian Српски sr 171.14 699,607 28,900,938 4,180,377
Sundanese Basa Sunda su 2.45 61,834 673,270 98,946
Swedish Svenska sv 18.02 2,599,984 56,475,195 6,280,387
Swahili Kiswahili sw 8.35 90,775 1,376,479 187,603
Silesian Ślůnsko szl 0.38 58,518 374,501 74,563
Tamil தமிழ் ta 42.14 170,389 4,164,793 584,878
Telugu తెలుగు te 79.42 102,224 4,326,733 367,850
Tajik Тоҷикӣ tg 10.55 114,208 1,416,939 278,743
Thai ไทย th 338.44 170,034 12,022,134 1,128,339
Tagalog Tagalog tl 145.9 48,045 2,136,698 244,258
Turkish Türkçe tr 188.14 625,521 34,474,767 3,266,626
Tatar Татарча tt 2.26 502,324 4,404,349 830,125
Ukrainian Українська uk 59.53 1,358,191 44,138,966 4,821,554
Urdu اردو ur 101.14 215,795 6,471,787 1,117,679
Uzbek O‘zbek uz 36.66 292,788 5,351,472 1,094,470
Venetian Vèneto vec 9.27 69,377 1,177,691 142,996
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt vi 730.25 1,294,348 71,990,351 19,496,943
Volapük Volapük vo 188.72 39,221 3,306,859 156,393
Walloon Walon wa 26.13 12,495 409,478 29,696
Waray-Waray Winaray war 4.28 1,266,588 7,664,938 2,870,225
Wu 吴语 wuu 0.77 44,591 329,102 61,496
Mingrelian მარგალური (Margaluri) xmf 4.33 21,625 233,360 40,332
Yiddish ייִדיש yi 46.14 15,494 594,656 44,180
Yoruba Yorùbá yo 4.91 34,721 590,452 59,056
Chinese 中文 zh 211.17 1,456,216 85,122,250 7,904,911
Classical Chinese 古文 / 文言文 zh-classical 194.25 13,485 411,969 111,076
Min Nan Bân-lâm-gú zh-min-nan 6.51 433,470 3,221,625 1,071,453
Cantonese 粵語 zh-yue 10.75 143,095 2,215,901 321,965
Zulu isiZulu zu 6.45 11,583 111,656 25,694
Language Language (local) Wiki Depth Articles Edits Total Pages


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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
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 1287 94 268 35 91 191 19 199 197 161 18 211 48 38 41 60 188 129 189 51 60 17 23 57 138 271 279 166 30 171
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 ]

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