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
> >>
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