Wikipedia:Good article statistics

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Wikipedia:Good articles was initiated on 11 October 2005, with the current nominations system instituted on 10 March 2006. This table gives a monthly overview of article count, and compares it to that for featured articles. Monthly increases are not the same as new listings, since articles may be removed from both the good articles list and featured article status. Also, good articles that become featured articles are removed from the good articles list. Article counts are those stated on the good articles list and featured article list at 0:00 UTC on the listed date. There may be (relatively) small inaccuracies in these data.

Note that the number of GAs and total number of articles are approximate starting with February 2013; as the bot formerly used to collect the data no longer runs, the data are collected by hand on the last day of the month, introducing more error.

The number of good articles has been rising as a proportion of the total number of articles, while the proportion of articles featured has been relatively stable since 2006. To interpret these figures, note that the total number of articles on Wikipedia rose exponentially for some time, but since about August 2006, article growth rates have stopped increasing, and now (in 2015) article growth is approximately linear rather than exponential. The proportion of GAs is still increasing, and the proportion of FAs remained approximately constant for several years.

Note: When comparing the good articles statistics page and the featured articles statistics page, it may appear that the two tables are a month off. They are not; this has to do with how they are set up. The good articles statistics page gives a snapshot at the beginning of every month, while the featured articles statistics page gives a snapshot at the end of every month.

Table of statistics

Date	Articles (1000s)	Good articles	Monthly increase	% of articles	Are 1 in ... articles	Featured articles	Monthly increase	% of articles	Are 1 in ... articles
1 June 2016	5164	24294	185	0.470	213	4771	20	0.0924	1090
1 May 2016	5139	24109	297	0.469	214	4751	14	0.0924	1090
1 April 2016	5118	23812	287	0.465	215	4737	21	0.0926	1080
1 March 2016	5093	23525	117	0.462	217	4716	15	0.0926	1080
1 February 2016	5069	23408	183	0.462	217	4701	18	0.0927	1080
1 January 2016	5045	23225	92	0.460	218	4683	14	0.0928	1080
1 December 2015	5021	23133	100	0.461	218	4669	16	0.0930	1080
1 November 2015	4999	23033	198	0.461	218	4653	36	0.0931	1080
1 October 2015	4977	22835	145	0.459	218	4617	27	0.0928	1080
1 September 2015	4957	22690	205	0.458	219	4590	25	0.0926	1090
1 August 2015	4933	22485	223	0.456	220	4565	19	0.0925	1090
1 July 2015	4905	22262	195	0.454	221	4546	14	0.0927	1080
1 June 2015	4882	22067	123	0.452	222	4532	21	0.0928	1078
1 May 2015	4861	21944	184	0.451	222	4511	17	0.0928	1080
1 April 2015	4850 A	21760	126	0.449	219	4494	20	0.0927	1080
1 March 2015	4731	21634	196	0.457	219	4474	23	0.0946	1060
1 February 2015	4708	21438	307	0.455	223	4494	20	0.0945	1060
1 January 2015	4682	21131	177	0.451	222	443	9	0.0946	1060
1 December 2014	4661	20954	169	0.449	223	4422	22	0.0949	1060
1 November 2014	4636	20785	201	0.448	224	4402	18	0.0950	1060
1 October 2014	4613	20584	112	0.446	225	4380	23	0.0949	1060
1 September 2014	4594	20472	143	0.446	225	4357	33	0.0948	1060
1 August 2014	4571	20329	160	0.445	225	4324	25	0.0946	1060
1 July 2014	4546	20169	149	0.446	226	4299	29	0.0946	1060
1 June 2014	4526	20020	95	0.442	226	4270	35	0.0943	1060
1 May 2014	4504	19925	176	0.442	226	4235	26	0.0940	1064
1 April 2014	4483	19749	217	0.441	227	4209	28	0.0939	1065
1 March 2014	4462	19532	234	0.438	229	4181	15	0.0937	1068
1 February 2014	4438	19297	252	0.435	230	4166	32	0.0939	1066
1 January 2014	4413	19045	219	0.432	232	4134	18	0.0937	1067
1 December 2013	4390	18826	116	0.429	234	4116	31	0.0938	1067
1 November 2013	4365	18710	192	0.429	234	4085	31	0.0936	1070
1 October 2013	4339	18518	164	0.427	235	4054	33	0.0934	1071
1 September 2013	4318	18354	212	0.425	236	4021	41	0.0931	1080
1 August 2013	4294	18142	257	0.422	237	3980	37	0.0927	1080
1 July 2013	4270	17885	260	0.419	239	3943	34	0.0923	1084
1 June 2013	4246	17625	212	0.415	241	3909	43	0.0921	1086
1 May 2013	4223	17410	243	0.412	243	3866	24	0.0915	1093
1 April 2013	4199	17167	252	0.409	245	3842	37	0.0915	1093
1 March 2013	4175	16915	184	0.405	245	3805	11	0.0911	1098
1 February 2013	4156	16731	318	0.403	248	3793	21	0.0913	1096
1 January 2013	4135	16413	215	0.397	252	3772	22	0.0912	1096
1 December 2012	4109	16198	166	0.394	254	3750	35	0.0912	1096
1 November 2012	4090	16032	179	0.392	255	3715	33	0.0908	1101
1 October 2012	4065	15853	153	0.389	257	3682	35	0.0906	1104
1 September 2012	4042	15700	157	0.388	257	3647	34	0.0902	1108
1 August 2012	4020	15543	400	0.387	258	3613	28	0.0899	1110
1 July 2012	3988	15143	512	0.380	263	3585	25	0.0899	1112
1 June 2012	3960	14631	269	0.369	271	3560	20	0.0899	1112
1 May 2012	3938	14362	158	0.365	274	3540	19	0.0899	1112
1 April 2012	3910	14204	132	0.363	275	3521	33	0.0900	1110
1 March 2012	3886	14072	134	0.362	276	3488	28	0.0897	1114
1 February 2012	3860	13938	214	0.361	277	3460	24	0.0896	1116
1 January 2012	3835	13724	463	0.358	280	3436	19	0.0896	1116
1 December 2011	3812	13261	148	0.348	287	3417	8	0.0896	1116
1 November 2011	3784	13113	229	0.347	289	3409	22	0.0909	1110
1 October 2011	3755	12884	175	0.343	291	3387	15	0.0902	1109
1 September 2011	3725	12709	267	0.341	293	3372	28	0.0905	1105
1 August 2011	3697	12442	205	0.337	297	3344	31	0.0905	1105
1 July 2011	3671	12237	194	0.333	300	3313	27	0.0902	1108
1 June 2011	3648	12043	181	0.330	303	3286	35	0.0900	1110
1 May 2011	3626	11862	214	0.327	306	3251	29	0.0897	1115
1 April 2011	3600	11648	499	0.324	309	3222	30	0.0895	1117
1 March 2011	3571	11149	226	0.312	320	3192	26	0.0894	1119
1 February 2011	3544	10923	275	0.308	324	3166	38	0.0893	1119
1 January 2011	3517	10648	201	0.303	330	3128	27	0.0889	1124
1 December 2010	3490	10447	213	0.299	334	3101	22	0.0889	1125
1 November 2010	3458	10234	333	0.296	338	3079	20	0.0890	1123
1 October 2010	3430	9901	206	0.289	346	3059	40	0.0892	1121
1 September 2010	3399	9695	200	0.285	350	3019	46	0.0888	1126
1 August 2010	3367	9495	179	0.282	356	2973	43	0.0883	1133
1 July 2010	3338	9316	120	0.279	358	2930	32	0.0878	1139
1 June 2010	3309	9196	163	0.278	360	2898	31	0.0876	1142
1 May 2010	3277	9032	631	0.276	363	2867	31	0.0875	1143
1 April 2010	3238	8402	190	0.260	385	2836	25	0.0876	1141
1 March 2010	3208	8212	159	0.256	391	2811	42	0.0876	1141
1 February 2010	3179	8053	201	0.253	395	2769	39	0.0871	1148
1 January 2010	3145	7852	145	0.250	401	2730	22	0.0868	1152
1 December 2009	3111	7707	150	0.248	404	2708	33	0.0870	1149
1 November 2009	3081	7557	145	0.245	408	2675	43	0.0868	1152
1 October 2009	3048	7412	166	0.243	411	2632	34	0.0864	1157
1 September 2009	3021	7246	142	0.240	417	2598	18	0.0860	1163
1 August 2009	2976	7104	131	0.239	419	2580	20	0.0867	1153
1 July 2009	2928	6973	27	0.238	420	2560	34	0.0874	1144
1 June 2009	2899	6946	171	0.240	417	2526	30	0.0871	1148
1 May 2009	2863	6775	192	0.237	423	2496	18	0.0872	1147
1 April 2009	2820	6583	220	0.234	426	2478	37	0.0879	1138
1 March 2009	2767	6363	383	0.230	435	2441	35	0.0882	1134
1 February 2009	2721	5980	279	0.220	455	2406	41	0.0884	1131
1 January 2009	2679	5701	167	0.213	470	2365	45	0.0882	1133
1 December 2008	2642	5534	183	0.210	477	2320	25	0.0878	1139
1 November 2008	2608	5351	271	0.205	487	2295	40	0.0880	1136
1 October 2008	2568	5080	234	0.198	506	2255	41	0.0878	1139
1 September 2008	2539	4846	227	0.191	524	2214	51	0.0872	1146
1 August 2008	2484	4619	205	0.186	538	2163	48	0.0871	1148
1 July 2008	2435	4414	170	0.181	552	2115	45	0.0869	1151
1 June 2008	2396	4244	200	0.177	565	2070	38	0.0864	1157
1 May 2008	2355	4044	215	0.172	582	2032	51	0.0863	1159
1 April 2008	2313	3829	200	0.166	603	1981	60	0.0856	1167
1 March 2008	2261	3629	143	0.161	622	1921	59	0.0850	1174
1 February 2008	2203	3486	201	0.158	632	1862	73	0.0845	1183
1 January 2008	2153	3285	151	0.153	655	1789	55	0.0831	1203
1 December 2007	2109	3134	117	0.149	673	1734	69	0.0822	1216
1 November 2007	2071	3017	133	0.146	686	1665	32	0.0803	1244
1 October 2007	2029	2884	64	0.142	704	1633	61	0.0805	1242
1 September 2007	1985	2820	121	0.142	702	1572	48	0.0792	1260
1 August 2007	1925	2699	233	0.140	713	1524	53	0.0791	1263
1 July 2007	1858	2466	183	0.133	753	1471	64	0.0792	1263
1 June 2007	1811	2283	114	0.126	794	1407	33	0.0777	1287
1 May 2007	1762	2169	140	0.123	813	1374	36	0.0780	1282
1 April 2007	1715	2029	159	0.118	845	1338	71	0.0780	1282
1 March 2007	1662	1870	90	0.113	914	1267	34	0.0761	1315
1 February 2007	1611	1780	157	0.105	905	1233	28	0.0765	1307
1 January 2007	1559	1623	65	0.104	960	1205	30	0.0778	1286
1 December 2006	1511	1558	34	0.103	970	1175	35	0.0773	1293
1 November 2006	1483	1524	64	0.103	974	1140	23	0.0768	1301
1 October 2006	1412	1460	65	0.103	967	1117	23	0.0791	1264
1 September 2006	1363	1395	78	0.102	977	1094	29	0.0803	1246
1 August 2006	1290	1317	118	0.102	980	1065	37	0.0825	1212
1 July 2006	1227	1199	146	0.0977	1023	1028	38	0.0838	1194
1 June 2006	1166	1053	74	0.0903	1107	990	31	0.0849	1178
1 May 2006	1108	979	112	0.0884	1132	959	29	0.0866	1155
1 April 2006	1054	867	70	0.0823	1216	930	25	0.0882	1133
1 March 2006	999	797	152	0.0798	1253	905	26	0.0906	1104
1 February 2006	947	645	130	0.0681	1468	879	30	0.0928	1077
1 January 2006	894	515	316	0.0576	1736	849	28	0.0950	1053
1 December 2005	848	199	87	0.0235	4261	821	29	0.0968	1033
1 November 2005	799	112	112	0.0140	7134	792	33	0.0991	1009

^A The unusually large increase in the number of articles in March 2015 was caused by a maintenance script running for the first time on 29 March. The purpose of the maintenance script was to correct the automatically updated count, which was missing roughly 95,000 articles. Since the maintenance script will run on the 29th of each month from now on, the reported count should stay much closer to the true count.

Number of good and featured articles

Number of good and featured articles per million articles

Monthly growth rates for good and featured articles

These figures are averaged over the preceding 12 months to eliminate seasonal variations.

Total number of articles on en.wikipedia (thousands) by month

See also

• Wikipedia:Featured article statistics
• User:Dr pda/Good article statistics, a 2008 snapshot