Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia/2002 archived data

This is an historical dataset for the size of Wikipedia, in its original tabular presentation, archived from Size of Wikipedia, which now contains the most up-to-date data in a simpler format.

The figures below are for the year 2002:

key:
 * est: estimate
 * mpacIII: main page article count from the Phase III software
 * mpacII: main page article count from the Phase II software
 * spII: stats page article count from the Phase II software
 * all recent dates should be in Wikipedia server time, not user's local time

Note: The phase III software appears to give the same figure for pages on the main page and the stats pages: the phase II software used two different bases for the estimates, so the difference matters.

Date        Source      est    spII      mpacII   mpacIII September 21                                      44920 September 17                                      43962 September 16                                      43762 September 10                                      42268 September 9                                       42021 September 7                                       41559 September 5                                       41141 September 4                                       40934 September 3                                       40718 August 31                                         40093 August 22                                         38780 August 14                                         37508 August 12   obs. 37259 May 17      WA                ~33333 April 3     WA                ~32000 Mar 28      WA                ~30000

Feb 4       WA                           ~23000 Jan 9       LMS,MF    ~20000