Wikipedia Stub Article Growth
This page tracks the number of new Wikipedia stub articles created each day and their overall growth rate.
- Observations
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- Tracking since
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Number of stub article titles retrieved from Wikipedia category or search (sample size)
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About this data
The page displays a daily count of newly created stub articles on Wikipedia, together with the percentage change from the previous day to show the growth rate. These figures are obtained by querying the Wikimedia API for recent changes that are tagged as stubs.
Monitoring stub creation reveals where volunteer editors are adding minimal content, highlighting emerging topics or areas that need expansion. Because Wikipedia content is constantly edited, this metric offers a near‑real‑time view of editorial activity that is not routinely published elsewhere.
Sources
Every figure on this page was read from these pages.
Why this isn't published anywhere else
While there are existing sources that track Wikipedia statistics, none of them specifically focus on stub article growth, but general Wikipedia statistics are available, which partially covers the proposed topic.
Uniqueness score 0.80 — assessed against live web search results when this subject was created.