Wikipedia:Multilingual ranking/February 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	19000	18769	1693	+8125%	+10%	80.580%	80.388%	52.302%	-19.420	-4.500
2.	N	-	German	1269	1269	60	new	+5%	5.382%	5.435%	1.854%	+5.382	-0.561
3.	N	-	Polish	997	997	433	new	+77%	4.228%	4.270%	13.377%	+4.228	+1.456
4.	N	-	Spanish	869	869	551	new	+173%	3.685%	3.722%	17.022%	+3.685	+2.122
5.	N	-	Dutch	423	423	136	new	+47%	1.794%	1.812%	4.201%	+1.794	+0.383
6.	N	-	Esperanto	373	373	157	new	+73%	1.582%	1.598%	4.850%	+1.582	+0.520
7.	N	-	Portuguese	209	209	12	new	+6%	0.886%	0.895%	0.371%	+0.886	-0.082
8.	N	N	Serbo-Croatian	105	105	105	new	new	0.445%	0.450%	3.244%	+0.445	+0.445
9.	N	-1	Swedish	102	102	3	new	+3%	0.433%	0.437%	0.093%	+0.433	-0.054
10.	N	-1	French	88	88	33	new	+60%	0.373%	0.377%	1.019%	+0.373	+0.103
11.	N	-1	Catalan	59	59	17	new	+40%	0.250%	0.253%	0.525%	+0.250	+0.044
12.	N	+4	Norwegian	33	33	31	new	+1550%	0.140%	0.141%	0.958%	+0.140	+0.130
13.	N	-2	Afrikaans	16	16	2	new	+14%	0.068%	0.069%	0.062%	+0.068	-0.001
14.	N	-2	Italian	12	12	0	new	0%	0.051%	0.051%	0.000%	+0.051	-0.008
15.	N	-	Chinese	8	8	3	new	+60%	0.034%	0.034%	0.093%	+0.034	+0.009
16.	N	-3	Russian	7	7	0	new	0%	0.030%	0.030%	0.000%	+0.030	-0.005
	N	-2	Basque	7	7	1	new	+17%	0.030%	0.030%	0.031%	+0.030	+0.000
18.	N	-2	Japanese	2	2	0	new	0%	0.008%	0.009%	0.000%	+0.008	-0.001
-	-	-	All Wikipedias	23579	23348	3237	+10107%	+16%	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)