If one looks at the data from Nov 2016 to Nov 2025
All 19.8 B to 14.7 B EN 8.0 B to 6.9 B Rest 8.9 B to 7.8 B So over the last 9 years there has been both a fall in views on EN WP and on the rest of the project combined by about 10%. James On Sat, Dec 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM Anders Wennersten <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks James for correction! > > But even excluding spiders, the figures are (nov-nov) > > enwp 7,35-6,92 -6,9% > > rest of world 7,78-781 +0,3 % > > So the decline is not all over the place, and we should be careful not > to state the situation on enwp as general > > Anders > > Den 2025-12-20 kl. 22:32, skrev James Heilman: > > > Hey Anders > > > > For some reason that stats page you link to defaults to all agent > > types (ie including spiders and automated). If you just look at > > users/humans you see a drop from > > > > Nov 2024 15.1 B > > to > > Nov 2025 14.7 B > > > > Nov 2016 16.9 B > > > > So yes our readership has trended down a bit despite having more and > > more content and the online population growing. > > > > https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/all-projects/reading/total-page-views/normal|bar|all|(agent)~user|monthly > > > > For certain topic areas like health the drop in readership is > > significantly more profound. > > > > > > > > James > > > > On Sat, Dec 20, 2025 at 6:41 AM Anders Wennersten > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The income is from donation and others going from 185,4 to 208,6 (up > >> 12,5 % very healthy) 2025/2024 - 2024/2023 > >> > >> Number of accesses world wide 25 MD up 6,5% yearly nov-nov > >> > >> When i look at the different language version most are up healthy, only > >> enwp shows a decrease of 6,3% nov-nov, but there the number of active > >> editors are up 8,7% an envy for most other versions showing a small > >> decrease of active editors. > >> > >> Are we too focused on the tough discussions in US and miss the > >> world-wide successes of our movement? (and personally I believe that AI, > >> reusing and repacking our content, and things like Grokipedia is proof > >> of how central and accepted we have become) > >> > >> Anders > >> > >> sources > >> > >> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/3/3f/Wikimedia_Foundation_FY_24-25_Audit_Report.pdf > >> > >> https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/all-projects > >> > >> https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines > >> at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > >> Public archives at > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/IIPZJKWW6GS6UCSNT45BB27N4PQ2Z33S/ > >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/O6Q44EV3KBXHRH34ZLYIKD5RLGPHI6I3/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/JJCPTBCKG3UZEGGEUERY4MNKOLHDZSIM/ To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
