Wikipedias are ordered by number of internal links (excl. redirects)
This seems a fairer base for comparing the total effort than either number of articles or database size:
Number of articles is not so meaningful given the fact that some Wikipedias contain mainly short articles,
or even many automatically generated articles, while other Wikipedias contain less but much longer articles, all handwritten.
Database size depends on coding system (unicode characters take several bytes) and
on how much meaning can be conveyed by one character (e.g. Chinese characters are whole words).
Oct 2007: possibly the sort order should be changed to number of manual edits (excl. bots) as best comparison of efforts.
Feedback and suggestions are welcome

Wikipedias which contain 10 or more articles (246) are included here
Not included: aa:Afar, chy:Cheyenne, ho:Hiri Motu, hz:Herero, kj:Kuanyama, kr:Kanuri, mh:Marshallese, mus:Muskogee, ng:Ndonga

Generated on Sunday July 13, 2008 from recent database dump files.
Data processed up to Saturday May 31, 2008
Please note that the lengthy dump process (many weeks) means a delay in publishing these statistics is always to be expected.

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