Wikipedia:Multilingual ranking/August 2002

All wikipedias with one or more articles in addition to the main page are ranked here according to the number of pages. They are ordered by size. New articles, growth, rank and diff are measured against a full calendar year or month.

• The * column denotes the rank change against last year's ranking.
• The ** column denotes the rank change against last month's ranking.
• "N" means a new entry.
• "-" means no change.
• Diff is the relative growth compared to the other Wikipedias, i.e. the difference between the present and past share.
• New share is the share among the new articles.
• green highlights the best ten performances in each column.
• red highlights the worst ten performances in each column.

Rank	*	**	Language	Articles	New articles (year)	New articles (month)	Growth (year)	Growth (month)	Share	New share (year)	New share (month)	Diff (year)	Diff (month)
1.	-	-	English	39000	34000	3000	+680%	+8%	69.584%	67.538%	51.984%	-18.058	-2.020
2.	-	+1	German	3932	3388	987	+623%	+34%	7.016%	6.730%	17.103%	-2.520	+1.158
3.	N	-1	Polish	3704	3704	596	new	+19%	6.609%	7.358%	10.327%	+6.609	+0.427
4.	N	-	Esperanto	3226	3226	398	new	+14%	5.756%	6.408%	6.897%	+5.756	+0.131
5.	+2	-	Spanish	2033	2030	11	+67667%	+1%	3.627%	4.032%	0.191%	+3.575	-0.394
6.	-1	+1	French	1491	1483	548	+18538%	+58%	2.660%	2.946%	9.496%	+2.520	+0.785
7.	-	-1	Dutch	1220	1217	120	+40567%	+11%	2.177%	2.417%	2.079%	+2.124	-0.011
8.	N	-	Norwegian	376	376	3	new	+1%	0.671%	0.747%	0.052%	+0.671	-0.071
9.	-5	-	Portuguese	306	286	34	+1430%	+13%	0.546%	0.568%	0.589%	+0.195	+0.005
10.	-7	-	Swedish	183	63	47	+53%	+35%	0.327%	0.125%	0.814%	-1.777	+0.056
11.	-5	-	Catalan	133	126	1	+1800%	+1%	0.237%	0.250%	0.017%	+0.115	-0.025
12.	N	+1	Italian	121	121	21	new	+21%	0.216%	0.240%	0.364%	+0.216	+0.017
13.	N	-1	Serbo-Croatian	110	110	0	new	0%	0.196%	0.219%	0.000%	+0.196	-0.023
14.	N	-	Slovenian	87	87	1	new	+1%	0.155%	0.173%	0.017%	+0.155	-0.016
15.	N	-	Danish	32	32	1	new	+3%	0.057%	0.064%	0.017%	+0.057	-0.005
16.	N	-	Afrikaans	20	20	0	new	0%	0.036%	0.040%	0.000%	+0.036	-0.004
17.	N	-	Japanese	18	18	0	new	0%	0.032%	0.036%	0.000%	+0.032	-0.004
18.	N	-	Latin	14	14	0	new	0%	0.025%	0.028%	0.000%	+0.025	-0.003
19.	N	-	Chinese	12	12	0	new	0%	0.021%	0.024%	0.000%	+0.021	-0.002
20.	N	-	Basque	9	9	0	new	0%	0.016%	0.018%	0.000%	+0.016	-0.002
21.	N	-	Russian	8	8	0	new	0%	0.014%	0.016%	0.000%	+0.014	-0.002
22.	N	-	Arabic	6	6	2	new	+50%	0.011%	0.012%	0.035%	+0.011	+0.003
23.	N	-	Interlingua	4	4	1	new	+33%	0.007%	0.008%	0.017%	+0.007	+0.001
24.	N	-	Czech	2	2	0	new	0%	0.004%	0.004%	0.000%	+0.004	-0.000
-	-	-	All Wikipedias	56047	50342	5771	+882%	+11%	100.000%	100.000%	100.000%	0.000	0.000
Rank	*	**	Language	Articles	New articles (year)	New articles (month)	Growth (year)	Growth (month)	Share	New share (year)	New share (month)	Diff (year)	Diff (month)