Wikipedia now has more than 6M articles in English
6 million pages! A quick look at their distribution:<p>3.6M of these pages got less than 10 views during December. 4.3M pages got less than 100 views each. 2.3M got less than 1000 views. That's the long tail. On the other side 680K pages got more than 1,000 views, 111K pages got more than 10k views, only 6k pages got more than 100k views, and 90 pages were able to gather more than 1M views (Star Wars, The Mandalorian, The Witcher...).<p>In summary: The top 7.2% of Wikipedia pages earn 87% of all the monthly views.<p>Yesterday I posted a deeper analysis on how these pages get their daily views:<p>- <a href="https://towardsdatascience.com/interactive-the-top-2019-wikipedia-pages-d3b96335b6ae" rel="nofollow">https://towardsdatascience.com/interactive-the-top-2019-wiki...</a><p>Apparently the most popular pages are all related to movies (Avengers, Joker, ...), series (Ted Bundy, Chernobyl, Game of Thrones), and deaths.