Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia - 2002 archived data

This is an historical dataset for the size of Wikipedia, in its original tabular presentation, archived from Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia, which now contains the most up-to-date data in a simpler format.

The figures below are for the year 2002:

key:

• est: estimate
• mpacIII: main page article count from the Phase III software
• mpacII: main page article count from the Phase II software
• spII: stats page article count from the Phase II software
• all recent dates should be in Wikipedia server time, not user's local time

Note: The phase III software appears to give the same figure for pages on the main page and the stats pages: the phase II software used two different bases for the estimates, so the difference matters.

 Date         Source      est    spII      mpacII   mpacIII
 September 21                                       44920
 September 17                                       43962
 September 16                                       43762
 September 10                                       42268
 September 9                                        42021
 September 7                                        41559
 September 5                                        41141
 September 4                                        40934
 September 3                                        40718
 August 31                                          40093
 August 22                                          38780
 August 14                                          37508
 August 12    obs.                                  37259
 May 17       WA                ~33333
 April 3      WA                ~32000
 Mar 28       WA                ~30000

 Feb 4        WA                           ~23000
 Jan 9        LMS,MF    ~20000