Wikipedia:Multilingual statistics/2002
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Article count, monthly totals
[edit]The table below shows the article count for the first day of each month for the currently functioning Wikipedia projects.
Individual years: 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - current
| Language | Jan. 1 2002 | Feb. 1 2002 | Mar. 1 2002 | Apr. 1 2002 | May 1 2002 | June 1 2002 | July 1 2002 | Aug. 1 2002 | Sept. 1 2002 | Oct. 1 2002 | Nov. 1 2002 | Dec. 1 2002 | Jan. 1 2003 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans (af) | 11 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 62 | 70 | 80 | 86 | 88 |
| Basque (eu) | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 14 | 18 | 18 |
| Bosnian (bs) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 15 |
| Catalan (ca) | 6 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 17 | 17 | 17 |
| Chinese (zh) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 75 | 108 |
| Czech (cs) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 16 |
| Danish (da) | - | - | 2 | 10 | 12 | 29 | 33 | 34 | 73 | 161 | 270 | 371 | 635 |
| Dutch (nl) | 185 | 289 | 428 | 958 | 1200 | 1300 | 1400 | 1500 | 2100 | 2400 | 3000 | 3700 | 4200 |
| English (en) | 17000 | 18000 | 27000 | 29000 | 31000 | 33000 | 36000 | 38000 | 43000 | 53000 | 90000 | 96000 | 100000 |
| Esperanto (eo) | 77 | 152 | 375 | 975 | 1500 | 2300 | 2600 | 3100 | 3500 | 3800 | 4100 | 4300 | 4500 |
| Estonian (et) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 8 | 20 | 51 | 140 |
| Finnish (fi) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
| French (fr) | 19 | 34 | 160 | 326 | 414 | 598 | 871 | 1400 | 2000 | 2500 | 2900 | 3500 | 4000 |
| Frisian (fy) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | 13 | 13 | 13 |
| German (de) | 955 | 1000 | 1200 | 1300 | 2000 | 3000 | 3800 | 4700 | 5300 | 6700 | 7500 | 8700 | 9800 |
| Italian (it) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 32 | 39 | 46 | 48 | 50 | 198 | 539 |
| Japanese (ja) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | 13 | 32 | 37 |
| Korean (ko) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | 16 | 21 |
| Latin (la) | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 8 |
| Malayalam (ml) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 |
| Norwegian (no) | 36 | 36 | 199 | 446 | 458 | 464 | 472 | 477 | 479 | 481 | 482 | 489 | 489 |
| Polish (pl) | 427 | 692 | 961 | 1400 | 1800 | 2600 | 3000 | 3700 | 4300 | 5500 | 6200 | 6400 | 7000 |
| Portuguese (pt) | 159 | 162 | 167 | 173 | 174 | 188 | 212 | 224 | 233 | 236 | 255 | 270 | 301 |
| Russian (ru) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | 46 |
| Simple English (simple) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Spanish (es) | 217 | 671 | 1300 | 1400 | 1400 | 1600 | 1600 | 1600 | 1600 | 1700 | 2000 | 2300 | 2500 |
| Swedish (sv) | 136 | 141 | 143 | 150 | 150 | 152 | 203 | 238 | 298 | 316 | 379 | 1800 | 4500 |
| Turkish (tr) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| All Wikipedias | 19234 | 21204 | 31963 | 36167 | 40138 | 45267 | 50256 | 55045 | 63016 | 76972 | 117318 | 128359 | 139002 |
Article count, monthly change
[edit]The following table shows the net monthly growth or decline of each Wikipedia project, by setting out the number of new articles, minus deletions, since the previous monthly count.
Individual years: 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 -2005 - 2006 - current
New articles per month
[edit]| Language | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December | 2002 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 77 |
| Basque | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 14 |
| Bosnian | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 15 |
| Catalan | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| Chinese | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 73 | 33 | 108 |
| Czech | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 16 |
| Danish | 0 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 39 | 88 | 109 | 101 | 264 | 635 |
| Dutch | 104 | 139 | 530 | 242 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 600 | 300 | 600 | 700 | 500 | 4015 |
| English | 1000 | 9000 | 2000 | 2000 | 2000 | 3000 | 2000 | 5000 | 10000 | 37000 | 6000 | 4000 | 83000 |
| Esperanto | 75 | 223 | 600 | 525 | 800 | 300 | 500 | 400 | 300 | 300 | 200 | 200 | 4423 |
| Estonian | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 31 | 89 | 140 |
| Finnish | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| French | 15 | 126 | 166 | 88 | 184 | 273 | 529 | 600 | 500 | 400 | 600 | 500 | 3981 |
| Frisian | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
| German | 45 | 200 | 100 | 700 | 1000 | 800 | 900 | 600 | 1400 | 800 | 1200 | 1100 | 8845 |
| Italian | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 28 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 148 | 341 | 538 |
| Japanese | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 19 | 5 | 37 |
| Korean | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 21 |
| Latin | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| Malayalam | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Norwegian | 0 | 163 | 247 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 453 |
| Polish | 265 | 269 | 439 | 400 | 800 | 400 | 700 | 600 | 1200 | 700 | 200 | 600 | 6573 |
| Portuguese | 3 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 14 | 24 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 19 | 15 | 31 | 142 |
| Russian | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 40 | 46 |
| Simple English | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Spanish | 454 | 629 | 100 | 0 | 200 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 300 | 300 | 200 | 2283 |
| Swedish | 5 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 51 | 35 | 60 | 18 | 63 | 1421 | 2700 | 4364 |
| Turkish | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| All Wikipedias | 1970 | 10757 | 4196 | 3969 | 5112 | 4985 | 4788 | 7932 | 13868 | 40237 | 10940 | 10379 | 119133 |