Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Stats

A bookshelf of all Wikipedia's medical content (in all 286 languages) as of the end of 2013. Based on an estimated number of bytes of 1,015,667,193, with 8,000,000 characters per book, thus 126.7 volumes. This does not include pictures.

This page links out to a list of tables giving some statistics around Wikipedia and Medicine in different languages.

The tool used to convert CSV to Mediawiki markup is here.

Content

References

Change in number of references supporting medical content from 2009 to 2018.

• As of February 5, 2019, Wikipedia's medical content is supported by 757,855 references in English and 1,596,528 in other languages, for a total of 2,354,383 across all languages. In English 168,985 have a PMID while 261,850 do in other languages. This means at least 430,835 references are journal articles.

• Change in referrals to Cochrane over time

Articles

• Number of articles by language for Feb 2019
• Number of articles by language for April 2018
• Number of articles by language for 2017
• Number of articles by language for 2015
• Number of articles by language for 2013

Other

• Growth in content for 2013 (taking into account Wikidata)
• Medical articles that exist in the most languages
• Number of articles in X languages
• Number of GAs/FAs by language

Readership

Change in medical pageviews from 2009 until 2019

40% of people go beyond the leads of our articles when on mobile (more here)

• New massview tool
• Weekly Pageviews for medical articles
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Popular_pages

2018

• Total views by language 2018
• Top viewed medical articles by language 2018

2017

Total EN pageviews for 2017 = 2,216 million

2016

• Video views (Osmosis)

2014

• Total yearly pageviews for top 5000 medical articles

2013

• Total yearly pageviews for English Wikipedia articles 2013
• Percent of total pageviews for medicine
• Monthly popular pages for English Wikipedia
• Total pageviews by language for 2013
• Top 25 articles in each language for 2013
• Average views per article by language
• Top pageviews by subject for 2013
• Is what people care about similar by language
• Maximum Variance in Readership Between Languages
• Minimum Variance in Readership Between Languages

Editor numbers

Medical editor trends for 2001 to 2024. English Wikipedia only.(data)

Medical editor trends for 2013 to 2017. Includes editors from across all languages. (data)

• Those making more than 5 edits to a medical article in last 30 days
• 195,809 of the same in 2014
• 211,882 unique med editors in 2013

2025

• Top medical editors 2025 (EN only)
• Top other language editors 2025
• Translators 2025

2024

• Top medical editors 2024 (EN only)
• Top other language editors 2024
• Translators 2024

2023

• Top medical editors 2023 (EN only)
• Top Translators 2023
• Top other language 2023

2022

• Top medical editors 2022 (EN only)

2021

• Top medical editors 2021 (EN only)

2020

• Top medical editors 2020 (EN only)

2019

• Top medical editors 2019 (all Wikipedias)
• Top medical editors 2019 (EN only)

2018

• Top medical editors 2018 (all Wikipedias)
• Top medical editors 2018 (EN only)

2017

• Top medical editors 2017 (all Wikipedias)
• Top medical editors 2017 (EN only)

2016

• Top medical editors 2016 (all lang.)

2015

• Top medical editors 2015 (all lang.)

2014

• Top medical editors 2014 (all lang.)
• 2014 Extra Editor Data
• Top English medical editors 2014

2013

• Top medical editors 2013 (all lang.)
• Top English medical editors 2013 by edits
• Top English medical editors 2013 by bytes changed
• Top non English medical editors 2013
• Medical editors by language and number of edits 2013
• Educational background

Further data

• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Directory/Description/WikiProject_Medicine
• Wikipedia:Database_reports/WikiProjects_by_changes
• Top German medical editors 2013–2016