[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Statistics

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/6/29 Muhammad Abdul-Mageed {محمد عبدالمجيد} <mumageed at gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> I am writing up an academic paper on Wikipedia and need to include some
> statistics in the background section about the encyclopedia. What I am
> looking for includes, *but is not limited to*:
>
>   1.  The number of articles in English and the following hugest 3 or 4
>   language versions,
>   2. The number of unique users, say in June 2009
>   3. The number of editors in English and perhaps some other versions.
>
> I have made some search and found that the "Wikipedia statistics" page (
> http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/), for example, provides some of this
> information. But I thought some of the people in the list will probably have
> related good advice as well.

Most statistics pages are linked to here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AStatistics

In particular, the sizes of the various languages are here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Multilingual_statistics