Wikipedia:Multilingual ranking/October 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	53000	42000	9000	+382%	+20%	70.216%	66.580%	71.965%	-18.500	+0.347
2.	-	-	German	5604	4773	1280	+574%	+30%	7.424%	7.566%	10.235%	+0.722	+0.558
3.	+3	-	Polish	5045	4965	1006	+6206%	+25%	6.684%	7.871%	8.044%	+6.039	+0.270
4.	N	-	Esperanto	3718	3718	221	new	+6%	4.926%	5.894%	1.767%	+4.926	-0.627
5.	+3	+1	French	2500	2483	455	+14606%	+22%	3.312%	3.936%	3.638%	+3.175	+0.065
6.	-1	-1	Spanish	2142	2019	76	+1641%	+4%	2.838%	3.201%	0.608%	+1.846	-0.443
7.	-1	-	Dutch	1670	1590	270	+1988%	+19%	2.212%	2.521%	2.159%	+1.567	-0.011
8.	N	-	Norwegian	377	377	0	new	0%	0.499%	0.598%	0.000%	+0.499	-0.099
9.	-5	-	Portuguese	355	228	29	+180%	+9%	0.470%	0.361%	0.232%	-0.554	-0.047
10.	-7	-	Swedish	255	122	44	+92%	+21%	0.338%	0.193%	0.352%	-0.735	+0.003
11.	N	+2	Danish	197	197	85	new	+76%	0.261%	0.312%	0.680%	+0.261	+0.083
12.	-3	-1	Catalan	136	128	2	+1600%	+1%	0.180%	0.203%	0.016%	+0.116	-0.033
13.	N	-1	Italian	132	132	4	new	+3%	0.175%	0.209%	0.032%	+0.175	-0.028
14.	N	-	Serbo-Croatian	110	110	0	new	0%	0.146%	0.174%	0.000%	+0.146	-0.029
15.	N	-	Slovenian	94	94	6	new	+7%	0.125%	0.149%	0.048%	+0.125	-0.015
16.	N	-	Afrikaans	37	37	4	new	+12%	0.049%	0.059%	0.032%	+0.049	-0.003
17.	N	N	Frisian	24	24	24	new	new	0.032%	0.038%	0.192%	+0.032	+0.032
18.	N	-	Chinese	15	15	1	new	+7%	0.020%	0.024%	0.008%	+0.020	-0.002
	N	-	Latin	15	15	1	new	+7%	0.020%	0.024%	0.008%	+0.020	-0.002
	N	+4	Estonian	15	15	8	new	+114%	0.020%	0.024%	0.064%	+0.020	+0.009
21.	N	-1	Basque	12	12	3	new	+33%	0.016%	0.019%	0.024%	+0.016	+0.002
22.	N	-1	Russian	11	11	3	new	+38%	0.015%	0.017%	0.024%	+0.015	+0.002
23.	N	-	Arabic	6	6	0	new	0%	0.008%	0.010%	0.000%	+0.008	-0.002
24.	N	-7	Japanese	5	5	-16	new	-75%	0.007%	0.008%	-0.128%	+0.007	-0.027
25.	N	-1	Interlingua	4	4	0	new	0%	0.005%	0.006%	0.000%	+0.005	-0.001
26.	N	-1	Czech	2	2	0	new	0%	0.003%	0.003%	0.000%	+0.003	-0.001
-	-	-	All Wikipedias	75481	63082	12506	+509%	+20%	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)