Wikipedia:Good article statistics

GA backlog drive

took place during the preceding month.
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.
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.

Table of statistics

Date Articles
(1000s) Good articles Featured articles

Total Monthly
increase % of
articles Are 1 in
... articles Total Monthly
increase % of
articles Are 1 in
... articles

1 April 2024 6806 39,436 367 0.578 173 6466 19 0.0950 1050

1 March 2024 6791 39,069 95 0.575 174 6447 15 0.0949 1053

1 February 2024 6777 38,974 104 0.575 174 6432 18 0.0949 1054

1 January 2024 6764 38,870 83 0.575 174 6414 4 0.0948 1055

1 December 2023 6750 38,787 80 0.575 174 6410 21 0.0950 1053

1 November 2023 6737 38,717 123 0.575 174 6389 28 0.0948 1055

1 October 2023 6722 38,594 74 0.574 175 6361 28 0.0946 1057

1 September 2023 6707 38,520 503 0.576 174 6333 31 0.0944 1060

1 August 2023 6691 38,017 118 0.568 177 6302 18 0.0942 1062

1 July 2023 6677 37,899 89 0.568 177 6284 6 0.0941 1063

1 June 2023 6663 37,810 120 0.567 177 6278 23 0.0942 1062

1 May 2023 6650 37,690 82 0.567 177 6255 12 0.0941 1063

1 April 2023 6638 37,608 105 0.567 177 6243 19 0.0940 1064

1 March 2023 6625 37,503 -164^[a] 0.566 177 6224 20 0.0939 1065

1 February 2023 6611 37,664 168 0.570 176 6204 20 0.0938 1066

1 January 2023 6595 37,496 122 0.568 177 6184 9 0.0938 1066

1 December 2022 6582 37,374 105 0.568 177 6175 8 0.0938 1066

1 November 2022 6569 37,269 106 0.567 177 6167 21 0.0939 1065

1 October 2022 6557 37,163 209 0.567 177 6146 12 0.0937 1067

1 September 2022 6546^[b] 36,954 210 0.565 177 6134 14 0.0937 1067

1 August 2022 6556 36,744 88 0.560 179 6120 6 0.0933 1072

1 July 2022 6526 36,656 280 0.562 178 6114 9 0.0937 1067

1 June 2022 6507 36,376 98 0.559 179 6105 14 0.0938 1066

1 May 2022 6492 36,278 102 0.559 180 6091 15 0.0938 1066

1 April 2022 6477 36,176 140 0.559 180 6076 5 0.0938 1066

1 March 2022 6460 36,036 113 0.558 180 6071 18 0.0940 1064

1 February 2022 6447 35,923 475 0.557 180 6053 7 0.0939 1065

1 January 2022 6431 35,448 97 0.551 182 6046 4 0.0940 1062

1 December 2021 6416 35,351 72 0.551 182 6042 13 0.0942 1062

1 November 2021 6403 35,279 141 0.551 182 6029 27 0.0942 1062

1 October 2021 6386 35,138 330 0.550 182 6002 25 0.0940 1064

1 September 2021 6368 34,809 89 0.547 183 5977 27 0.0939 1065

1 August 2021 6348 34,720 440 0.547 183 5950 19 0.0937 1067

1 July 2021 6328 34,280 170 0.542 185 5931 4 0.0937 1067

1 June 2021 6308 34,110 156 0.544 184 5927 10 0.0940 1064

1 May 2021 6290 33,954 155 0.540 186 5917 0 0.0941 1063

1 April 2021 6280 33,799 471 0.538 186 5917 4 0.0942 1061

1 March 2021 6261 33,328 147 0.532 188 5913 4 0.0944 1059

1 February 2021 6240 33,181 168 0.532 188 5909 10 0.0947 1056

1 January 2021 6220 33,013 128 0.531 189 5899 8 0.0949 1054

1 December 2020 6200 32,885 104 0.530 189 5891 15 0.0950 1053

1 November 2020 6183 32,781 351 0.530 189 5876 21 0.0950 1053

1 October 2020 6166 32,430 120 0.526 191 5855 19 0.0949 1054

1 September 2020 6151 32,310 165 0.525 191 5836 14 0.0949 1054

1 August 2020 6132 32,145 146 0.524 191 5822 21 0.0949 1054

1 July 2020 6112 31,999 164 0.523 192 5801 22 0.0949 1054

1 June 2020 6090 31,835 370 0.523 192 5779 23 0.0949 1055

1 May 2020 6069 31,465 615 0.519 193 5756 14 0.0948 1055

1 April 2020 6047 30,850 180 0.510 196 5742 20 0.0950 1053

1 March 2020 6024 30,670 126 0.509 197 5722 9 0.0950 1053

1 February 2020 6007 30,544 110 0.508 197 5713 18 0.0951 1052

1 January 2020 5989 30,434 94 0.508 197 5695 15 0.0951 1052

1 December 2019 5976 30,340 61 0.508 197 5680 23 0.0950 1053

1 November 2019 5963 30,279 80 0.508 197 5657 18 0.0949 1054

1 October 2019 5940 30,199 288 0.508 197 5639 18 0.0949 1054

1 September 2019 5921 29,911 146 0.505 198 5,621 30 0.0949 1054

1 August 2019 5903 29,765 77 0.504 199 5591 24 0.0947 1056

1 July 2019 5878 29,688 93 0.505 198 5567 24 0.0947 1056

1 June 2019 5870 29,595 112 0.504 199 5543 22 0.0944 1059

1 May 2019 5847 29,483 106 0.504 199 5521 18 0.0944 1059

1 April 2019 5830 29,377 99 0.504 199 5503 34 0.0944 1059

1 March 2019 5812 29,278 94 0.504 199 5469 18 0.0941 1063

1 February 2019 5793 29,184 173 0.504 199 5451 22 0.0941 1063

1 January 2019 5774 29,011 99 0.502 200 5429 15 0.0940 1064

1 December 2018 5761 28,912 114 0.502 200 5414 17 0.0940 1064

1 November 2018 5744 28,798 146 0.501 200 5397 10 0.0940 1064

1 October 2018 5726 28,652 107 0.500 200 5387 12 0.0941 1063

1 September 2018 5709 28,545 233 0.500 200 5375 11 0.0941 1063

1 August 2018 5690 28,312 230 0.498 201 5364 20 0.0943 1061

1 July 2018 5674 28,082 172 0.495 203 5344 14 0.0942 1062

1 June 2018 5659 27,910 238 0.493 203 5330 25 0.0942 1062

1 May 2018 5631 27,672 132 0.491 204 5305 22 0.0942 1062

1 April 2018 5602 27,540 204 0.492 204 5283 17 0.0943 1060

1 March 2018 5580 27,363 206 0.490 204 5266 18 0.0944 1059

1 February 2018 5562 27,157 223 0.488 205 5,248 25 0.0944 1059

1 January 2018 5542 26,934 142 0.486 206 5223 26 0.0942 1062

1 December 2017 5524 26,792 121 0.485 207 5197 19 0.0941 1063

1 November 2017 5504 26,671 104 0.485 207 5178 31 0.0941 1063

1 October 2017 5486 26,567 94 0.484 207 5147 28 0.0938 1066

1 September 2017 5469 26,473 121 0.484 207 5119 25 0.0936 1068

1 August 2017 5452 26,352 102 0.483 207 5094 31 0.0934 1080

1 July 2017 5438 26,250 140 0.483 207 5063 28 0.0931 1080

1 June 2017 5416 26,110 116 0.482 208 5035 23 0.0930 1080

1 May 2017 5396 25,994 116 0.482 208 5012 28 0.0929 1080

1 April 2017 5374 25,878 167 0.482 208 4984 34 0.0927 1080

1 March 2017 5347 25,711 145 0.481 208 4950 24 0.0926 1080

1 February 2017 5327 25,566 179 0.480 209 4926 29 0.0925 1081

1 January 2017 5321 25,387 142 0.477 210 4897 15 0.0920 1087

1 December 2016 5297 25,245 138 0.477 210 4882 16 0.0922 1085

1 November 2016 5275 25,107 128 0.476 210 4866 23 0.0922 1084

1 October 2016 5253 24,979 81 0.476 211 4843 27 0.0922 1090

1 September 2016 5229 24,898 219 0.476 210 4816 17 0.0921 1090

1 August 2016 5206 24,679 110 0.474 211 4799 14 0.0922 1090

1 July 2016 5185 24,569 275 0.472 212 4785 14 0.0924 1090

1 June 2016 5164 24,294 185 0.470 213 4771 20 0.0924 1090

1 May 2016 5139 24,109 297 0.469 214 4751 14 0.0924 1090

1 April 2016 5118 23,812 287 0.465 215 4737 21 0.0926 1080

1 March 2016 5093 23,525 117 0.462 217 4716 15 0.0926 1080

1 February 2016 5069 23,408 183 0.462 217 4701 18 0.0927 1080

1 January 2016 5045 23,225 92 0.460 218 4683 14 0.0928 1080

1 December 2015 5021 23,133 100 0.461 218 4669 16 0.0930 1080

1 November 2015 4999 23,033 198 0.461 218 4653 36 0.0931 1080

1 October 2015 4977 22,835 145 0.459 218 4617 27 0.0928 1080

1 September 2015 4957 22,690 205 0.458 219 4590 25 0.0926 1090

1 August 2015 4933 22,485 223 0.456 220 4565 19 0.0925 1090

1 July 2015 4905 22,262 195 0.454 221 4546 14 0.0927 1080

1 June 2015 4882 22,067 123 0.452 222 4532 21 0.0928 1078

1 May 2015 4861 21,944 184 0.451 222 4511 17 0.0928 1080

1 April 2015 4850^[c] 21,760 126 0.449 219 4494 20 0.0927 1080

1 March 2015 4731 21,634 196 0.457 219 4474 23 0.0946 1060

1 February 2015 4708 21,438 307 0.455 223 4451 20 0.0945 1060

1 January 2015 4682 21,131 177 0.451 222 4431 9 0.0946 1060

1 December 2014 4661 20,954 169 0.449 223 4422 22 0.0949 1060

1 November 2014 4636 20,785 201 0.448 224 4402 18 0.0950 1060

1 October 2014 4613 20,584 112 0.446 225 4380 23 0.0949 1060

1 September 2014 4594 20,472 143 0.446 225 4357 33 0.0948 1060

1 August 2014 4571 20,329 160 0.445 225 4324 25 0.0946 1060

1 July 2014 4546 20,169 149 0.446 226 4299 29 0.0946 1060

1 June 2014 4526 20,020 95 0.442 226 4270 35 0.0943 1060

1 May 2014 4504 19,925 176 0.442 226 4235 26 0.0940 1064

1 April 2014 4483 19,749 217 0.441 227 4209 28 0.0939 1065

1 March 2014 4462 19,532 234 0.438 229 4181 15 0.0937 1068

1 February 2014 4438 19,297 252 0.435 230 4166 32 0.0939 1066

1 January 2014 4413 19,045 219 0.432 232 4134 18 0.0937 1067

1 December 2013 4390 18,826 116 0.429 234 4116 31 0.0938 1067

1 November 2013 4365 18,710 192 0.429 234 4085 31 0.0936 1070

1 October 2013 4339 18,518 164 0.427 235 4054 33 0.0934 1071

1 September 2013 4318 18,354 212 0.425 236 4021 41 0.0931 1080

1 August 2013 4294 18,142 257 0.422 237 3980 37 0.0927 1080

1 July 2013 4270 17,885 260 0.419 239 3943 34 0.0923 1084

1 June 2013 4246 17,625 212 0.415 241 3909 43 0.0921 1086

1 May 2013 4223 17,410 243 0.412 243 3866 24 0.0915 1093

1 April 2013 4199 17,167 252 0.409 245 3842 37 0.0915 1093

1 March 2013 4175 16,915 184 0.405 245 3805 11 0.0911 1098

1 February 2013 4156 16,731 318 0.403 248 3793 21 0.0913 1096

1 January 2013 4135 16,413 215 0.397 252 3772 22 0.0912 1096

1 December 2012 4109 16,198 166 0.394 254 3750 35 0.0912 1096

1 November 2012 4090 16,032 179 0.392 255 3715 33 0.0908 1101

1 October 2012 4065 15,853 153 0.389 257 3682 35 0.0906 1104

1 September 2012 4042 15,700 157 0.388 257 3647 34 0.0902 1108

1 August 2012 4020 15,543 400 0.387 258 3613 28 0.0899 1110

1 July 2012 3988 15,143 512 0.380 263 3585 25 0.0899 1112

1 June 2012 3960 14,631 269 0.369 271 3560 20 0.0899 1112

1 May 2012 3938 14,362 158 0.365 274 3540 19 0.0899 1112

1 April 2012 3910 14,204 132 0.363 275 3521 33 0.0900 1110

1 March 2012 3886 14,072 134 0.362 276 3488 28 0.0897 1114

1 February 2012 3860 13,938 214 0.361 277 3460 24 0.0896 1116

1 January 2012 3835 13,724 463 0.358 280 3436 19 0.0896 1116

1 December 2011 3812 13,261 148 0.348 287 3417 8 0.0896 1116

1 November 2011 3784 13,113 229 0.347 289 3409 22 0.0909 1110

1 October 2011 3755 12,884 175 0.343 291 3387 15 0.0902 1109

1 September 2011 3725 12,709 267 0.341 293 3372 28 0.0905 1105

1 August 2011 3697 12,442 205 0.337 297 3344 31 0.0905 1105

1 July 2011 3671 12,237 194 0.333 300 3313 27 0.0902 1108

1 June 2011 3648 12,043 181 0.330 303 3286 35 0.0900 1110

1 May 2011 3626 11,862 214 0.327 306 3251 29 0.0897 1115

1 April 2011 3600 11,648 499 0.324 309 3222 30 0.0895 1117

1 March 2011 3571 11,149 226 0.312 320 3192 26 0.0894 1119

1 February 2011 3544 10,923 275 0.308 324 3166 38 0.0893 1119

1 January 2011 3517 10,648 201 0.303 330 3128 27 0.0889 1124

1 December 2010 3490 10,447 213 0.299 334 3101 22 0.0889 1125

1 November 2010 3458 10,234 333 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

WP:DCGAR
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^ The article count decreased from 6,572,974 on 21 August 2022 to 6,543,164 on 22 August 2022, due to fixing a bug in the counter that had inflated the counts since May 2022.

^ 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.

Graphs

Total number of GAs and FAs

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Number of GAs and FAs as % of articles

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Net monthly increase in number of GAs and FAs

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Total number of articles on English Wikipedia (thousand)

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See also

Wikipedia:Featured article statistics

For length statistics, see Wikipedia:Database reports/Good articles by size

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

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[1] WP:DCGAR
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[2] The article count decreased from 6,572,974 on 21 August 2022 to 6,543,164 on 22 August 2022, due to fixing a bug in the counter that had inflated the counts since May 2022.

[3] 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.

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