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.
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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
The race in numbers
0lead changes
25years covered
12contenders
Englishlongest reign — 25 yrs at #1, wire to wire
Final standings · 2026
- 1English7.20M
- 2Cebuano6.12M
- 3German3.13M
- 4French2.73M
- 5Swedish2.59M