Yahoo Web Search

Search results

1. • • Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia has hosted 306 different language versions. Compared to the roughly 7,000 languages spoken in the world this number can seem small, but considering just 23 languages are spoken by more than half the world’s population, these 306 cover a broad swath of humanity.
     Reference:

     Language On Wikipedia: How The Website Deals With The World’s ...

2. People also ask

   How many Wikipedia language editions are there?

   • The Wikipedia article “ List of Wikipedias ” offers basic information and general statistics about the 300 Wikipedia language editions. Part of our analysis relies on data dumps by the Wikimedia Foundation, i.e. downloadable data sets that capture basic information about the articles and edit activity of the various Wikipedia language editions.

   The language geography of Wikipedia - State of the Internet's Languages

   internetlanguages.org/en/numbers/wikipedia-language-geography/

   See all results for this question

   How many languages does Wikipedia have?

   • [PDF↓] Although we have only considered a tiny subset of the 300 Wikipedia languages, we have noted some striking differences in content coverage between them. Overall we find that Wikipedia’s language editions vary widely in scale, both in terms of number of articles, but also in terms of the size of their editor communities.

   The language geography of Wikipedia - State of the Internet's Languages

   internetlanguages.org/en/numbers/wikipedia-language-geography/

   See all results for this question

   How many languages did Wikipedia shut down?

   • In its history, Wikipedia has shut down 10 languages, including Choctaw Wikipedia, Afar Wikipedia and Ndonga Wikipedia. This leaves 296 Wikipedias still going today. The decision-making process for languages can be a tough one, especially when deciding which languages are worth the website’s limited resources.

   Language On Wikipedia: How The Website Deals With The World’s Many

   www.babbel.com/en/magazine/wikipedia-languages

   See all results for this question

   How big are Wikipedia's language editions?

   • Overall we find that Wikipedia’s language editions vary widely in scale, both in terms of number of articles, but also in terms of the size of their editor communities. English Wikipedia is by far the largest on both counts, and by comparison, the average Wikipedia language edition only has a small fraction of its content.

   The language geography of Wikipedia - State of the Internet's Languages

   internetlanguages.org/en/numbers/wikipedia-language-geography/

   See all results for this question

3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Wikipedia:Size_of_WikipediaWikipedia:Size of Wikipedia - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia

   • Cached

   The sum includes all 270+ Wikipedia languages. See the front page at https://www.wikipedia.org for a recent article count for the ten largest Wikipedias. The English edition remains the largest Wikipedia, slightly larger than the second-largest edition, the Cebuano Wikipedia .

   • Article percentage: 11.37%
   • English articles: 6,728,199

   • Average revisions: 19.86
   • Total wiki pages: 59,168,960

4. internetlanguages.org › en › numbersThe language geography of Wikipedia - State of the Internet's ...

   internetlanguages.org › en › numbers

   • Cached

   The remaining 21 Wikipedia languages are most prevalent in a single country. Wikipedia’s language geography. Wikipedia offers us some high-level information about its 300 language editions in its List of Wikipedias.

5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › List_of_WikipediasList of Wikipedias - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org › wiki › List_of_Wikipedias

   • Cached

   As of April 2024, Wikipedia articles have been created in 342 editions, with 329 currently active and 13 closed. [4] The Meta-Wiki language committee manages policies on creating new Wikimedia projects .

   Wikipedia Name In English	Wikipedia Name In Native Language	Language	Script ( Iso 15924 Code)
   English Wikipedia	English Wikipedia	English	Latn
   German Wikipedia	Deutschsprachige Wikipedia	German	Latn
   French Wikipedia	Wikipédia en français	French	Latn
   Spanish Wikipedia	Wikipedia en español	Spanish	Latn

   See full list on en.wikipedia.org

6. www.theguardian.com › technology › 2021Wikipedia at 20: last gasp of an internet vision, or a beacon ...

   www.theguardian.com › technology › 2021

   • Cached

   Jan 15, 2021 · That side project, Wikipedia, now has more than 55m articles across 300 languages. With 1.7bn unique visitors a month, it is the 13th most popular website on the internet, according to Amazon’s...

7. Videos

   • 

     4:03

     youtube.com

     How Many Languages Are There?

     Dec 7, 2020

     1.6M Views

   • 

     3:53

     youtube.com

     Language Comparison: Number of Different Words

     Jul 17, 2020

     4.7M Views

   • 

     0:04

     facebook.com

     What’s the most memorable time that Wikipedia has helped you out?

     Dec 16, 2017

     12.3K Views

   View all

8. www.statista.com › wikipedia-org-articles-languageWikipedia.org articles by language 2023 | Statista

   www.statista.com › wikipedia-org-articles-language

   • Cached

   Dec 14, 2023 · Wikipedia.org: number of articles 2023, by language. Published by. Tiago Bianchi , Dec 14, 2023. As of December 2023, the English subdomain of Wikipedia had around 6.75 million articles published...

9. www.statista.com › most-common-languages-wikipediaChart: The Most Common Languages on Wikipedia | Statista

   www.statista.com › most-common-languages-wikipedia

   • Cached

   Jan 13, 2021 · Internet usage worldwide ›. The Most Common Languages on Wikipedia. 20 Years of Wikipedia. by. Katharina Buchholz , Jan 13, 2021. Online encyclopedia Wikipedia went online twenty years ago on...

10. www.babbel.com › en › magazineLanguage On Wikipedia: How The Website Deals With The World’s ...

    www.babbel.com › en › magazine

    Nov 14, 2019 · In its history, Wikipedia has shut down 10 languages, including Choctaw Wikipedia, Afar Wikipedia and Ndonga Wikipedia. This leaves 296 Wikipedias still going today. The decision-making process for languages can be a tough one, especially when deciding which languages are worth the website’s limited resources.