Wildcard2001–2026

Largest Wikipedia Editions

Wikipedia's language race looks simple until the bots arrive. English grows like the web's default encyclopedia, then Cebuano, Swedish, Waray and Vietnamese reveal a stranger story: article counts can measure automation as much as human editing.

Source: Wikimedia Statistics and Wikipedia language edition records Article counts in millions, reconstructed from Wikimedia snapshots and public language-edition histories; bot-created article waves are intentionally included. illustrative data Updated 2026-07-05

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