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The size of the English Wikipedia can be measured in terms of the number of articles, number of words, number of pages, and the size of the database, among other ways. As of 20 May 2024, there are 6,825,414 articles in the English Wikipedia containing over 4.5 billion words (giving an average of about 668 words per article).
- 11.37%
- 6,728,199
- 19.86
- 59,168,960
The largest, the English Wikipedia, has over 6.8 million articles. As of January 2021, the English Wikipedia receives 48% of Wikipedia's cumulative traffic, with the remaining split among the other languages. The top 10 editions represent approximately 85% of the total traffic.
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For this your best (and only) bet is probably Kiwix. As of October 2022, the Full English Wikipedia (ca. 6.5 million articles), with images will use up 91GB of storage space (German and French, the second-largest: 36 GB).
Currently, the English Wikipedia alone has over 6,821,212 articles of any length, and the combined Wikipedias for all other languages greatly exceed the English Wikipedia in size, giving more than 29 billion words in 55 million articles in 309 languages.
According to the American Community Survey in 2010, some 229 million people out of the total U.S. population of 308 million spoke only English at home. About 37 million spoke Spanish at home, making it the second most commonly used language.
Sanity check: Encyclopædia Britannica has 44 million words across 32 volumes, or 1,375,000 words per volume. Thus, the text of the English Wikipedia is currently equivalent to 3,454.6 volumes of Encyclopædia Britannica. In other words, Wikipedia is approximately 107.96 times the size of Encyclopædia Britannica and that's excluding pictures ...
