Template:NUMBEROF

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This template is used in MediaWiki:Statistics-files-desc --> Special:Statistics.
Changes to it can cause immediate changes to the Wikipedia user interface.
To avoid major disruption, any changes should be tested in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. The tested changes can be added to this page in a single edit. Please discuss changes on the talk page before implementing them.

This template uses Lua:

Module:NUMBEROF (sandbox)

NUMBEROF shows statistics for a language.project (eg. en.wikipedia, cs.wikiquote, commons, etc.). Statistics update every 6 hours, except for your local wiki (en.wiki) which are real-time.

Projects tracked include:

*.wikipedia
*.wikisource
*.wikibooks
*.wikiquote
*.wikivoyage
*.wikinews
*.wikiversity
*.wiktionary
wikidata
meta
commons
foundation
wikimania
wikitech

Statistics are available for:

Total Articles (main-space pages)
Total Pages (articles + redirects + talk etc)
Total Users (ever registered)
Total Active Users (recently active)
Total Edits
Total Files (images)
Total Admins
Total for any of the above across all Wikipedia languages

1 Usage
2 Examples
3 Rankings
4 How it works
5 How to install on other wikis
6 See also

Usage

There are 2 required parameters, and an optional third:

First parameter: articles, pages, edits, users, activeusers, admins or files
Second parameter (lang.project): en.wikipedia, en.wikiquote, commons, etc.. if there is no ".<project_name>" it defaults to .wikipedia thus en or uk are acceptable shortcuts
Third parameter: If not empty (such as 'N') it will add a comma. For example "1000" becomes "1,000". For Wikis that use non-Latin digits, 'N' will also display numbers in the native script.

Examples

Number of articles

To show the number of articles of the French Wikipedia in format raw:

{{NUMBEROF|articles|fr}} → 2705571

To show the number of pages on Commons with comma:

{{NUMBEROF|pages|commons|N}} → 163,427,954

Totals

Totals for first parameter stats (articles, pages, edits, users, activeusers, admins or files) are available in three types: totalactive, totalclosed and total (ie. totalactive + totalclosed). "Active" or "closed" indicate the status of the Wikipedia, as some wikis are no longer active, but old stats are still available.

To show the total of all active sites, on wikipedia, for pages:

{{NUMBEROF|pages|totalactive.wikipedia|N}} → 274,698,614

To show the number of pages on avwiki in format raw:

{{NUMBEROF|pages|av}} → 18209

To show the number of pages on avwiki:

{{NUMBEROF|pages|av|N}} → 18,209

There is also a special total.all which is all projects (eg. wikipedia, wikiquote) that are active or closed.

{{NUMBEROF|pages|total.all|N}} → 678,998,984

Meta statistics

Information about the number of Wiki sites is available. Three types of stats: active, closed and languages (ie. active + closed).

{{NUMBEROF|languages|wikipedia}} → 357
{{NUMBEROF|active|wikiquote}} → 74
{{NUMBEROF|closed|wikiquote}} → 23

This allows for creating dynamic sentences for example: As of {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}} there are {{NUMBEROF|languages|wikipedia}} Wikipedia sites of which {{NUMBEROF|active|wikipedia}} are active and {{NUMBEROF|closed|wikipedia}} are closed. which produces: "As of August 2025 there are 357 Wikipedia sites of which 343 are active and 14 are closed."

Depth

Depth is available. Example:

{{NUMBEROF|depth|fr}} → 272

See meta:Wikipedia article depth for the meaning of depth.

Rankings

Site rankings are available. See {{Wikipedia rank by size}}

How it works

The statistics are retrieved by Module:NUMBEROF from Commons:Data:Wikipedia_statistics/data.tab and Commons:Data:Wikipedia_statistics/meta.tab
The rankings are retrieved from Commons:Data:Wikipedia_statistics/rank/wikipedia.tab and wikibooks.tab etc.. one for each of 8 sister projects.
The bot Numberof runs 4x daily updating data.tab and the ranking tabs based on a site list generated by API:SiteMatrix and statistics from API:Siteinfo
The bot runs on Toolforge from /data/project/botwikiawk/numberof by en:User:GreenC

How to install on other wikis

Copy and paste these pages:

Template:NUMBEROF
Module:NUMBEROF
Module:NUMBEROF/data

This is all that is required for basic installation.

Optionally copy-paste the full package which includes documentation, a rank template and meta statistics.

Template:NUMBEROF/doc – optionally use shorter basicdoc
Module:NUMBEROF/doc
Module:NUMBEROF/rank – for rankings
Module:NUMBEROF/other – for rankings
Module:NUMBEROF/meta – for meta statistics
{{Wikipedia rank by size}} – optionally translate template name
{{Wikipedia rank by size/WP}} – variation on the template
{{Wikipedia rank by size/doc}}

Edit 'languages link' (left column) for:

Template:NUMBEROF
Module:NUMBEROF
Template:Wikipedia rank by size (if installed)

Link to the enwiki version. This allows for easier upgrades later.