Key information
This page is intended to collect key information of Wikipedia and Wikimedia related to Belgium. The data below is not specified for Belgium only, unless stated so.
Wikipedia[edit]
- Started in: 2001
- Available in number of languages: 292 (February 2016) (source)
- Languages spoken in Belgium with Wikipedia edition: Dutch, French, German, English, Limburgs, Luxembourgish, Picard, Ripuarian, Walloon, West Flemish
- Number of articles collectively: > 38 million (February 2016) (source)
- Number of articles (March 2016) (source)
- Dutch Wikipedia: > 1.8 million
- French Wikipedia: > 1.7 million
- German Wikipedia: > 1.9 million
- English Wikipedia: > 5 million
- Number of page views a month collectively: > 15 billion (January 2016) (source)
- Number of page views a month (January 2016) (source)
- Dutch Wikipedia: > 166 million
- French Wikipedia: > 783 million
- German Wikipedia: > 1.1 billion
- English Wikipedia: > 7.7 billion
- Number of new articles a day (January 2016) (source)
- Dutch Wikipedia: 166
- French Wikipedia: 331
- German Wikipedia: 357
- English Wikipedia: 884
- Number of page views a month collectively: > 12.6 million (January 2016) (source)
- Number of edits a month (January 2016) (source)
- Dutch Wikipedia: > 176,000
- French Wikipedia: > 761,000
- German Wikipedia: > 725,000
- English Wikipedia: > 3.4 million
- Number of active editors a month collectively: > 74,000 (January 2016) (source)
- Number of active editors a month (January 2016) (source)
- Dutch Wikipedia: 1,390
- French Wikipedia: 4,813
- German Wikipedia: 6,539
- English Wikipedia: 30,993
- Number of very active editors a month collectively: > 11,000 (January 2016) (source)
- Number of very active editors a month (January 2016) (source)
- Dutch Wikipedia: 229
- French Wikipedia: 795
- German Wikipedia: 1,061
- English Wikipedia: 3,492
Wikimedia Commons[edit]
Wikimedia Commons is an online repository of free-use images, sound files, and other media files that can be used in Wikipedia, in other Wikimedia wikis and by anyone else.
- Started in: 2004
- Number of files: > 30 million (March 2016) (source)
Wikidata[edit]
Wikidata is a free, linked knowledge database where structured data is stored, and this data can be used in Wikipedia, in other Wikimedia wikis and many other sites and services beyond just Wikimedia projects.
- Started in: 2012
- Number of items: > 32 million (August 2017) (source)
- Number of statements: > 216 million (August 2017) (source)
Projects[edit]
Wiki Loves Monuments[edit]
Wiki Loves Monuments is an annual international photographic competition with the aim of collecting the world's cultural heritage sites on Wikipedia. In 2010 it started in the Netherlands, went European in 2011, and since 2012 in many countries around the world the contest has been organised. The contest is also organised in Belgium and Luxembourg, and is organised in these two countries together. The international edition of 2012 is recognised as the largest photography competition of the world (source).
- Number of uploads in the (international) contest (source)
- 2010: 12,624
- 2011: 171,131
- 2012: 363,933
- 2013: 368,227
- 2014: 322,413
- 2015: 231,588
- Note: The numbers are difficult to compare as result of the variable amount of participating countries.
- Number of new uploads in the Belgian contest (source)
- 2011: 5,847
- 2012: 4,134
- 2013: 3,176
- 2014: 2,315
- Note: The numbers of uploads differs as result of more and more monuments being photographed and more difficult to find not photographed ones.
- Number of new uploads in the Luxembourgian contest (source)
- 2011: 247
- 2012: 266
- 2013: 252
- 2014: 242
- Number of participants in the Belgian contest (source)
- 2011: 205
- 2012: 219
- 2013: 121
- 2014: 145
- Number of participants in the Luxembourgian contest (source)
- 2011: 24
- 2012: 16
- 2013: 12
- 2014: 12
- The uploaded files in Belgium, in Luxembourg, and the winners of each edition
- 2011: uploaded photos from Belgium / uploaded photos from Luxembourg / winning photos
- 2012: uploaded photos from Belgium / uploaded photos from Luxembourg / winning photos
- 2013: uploaded photos from Belgium / uploaded photos from Luxembourg / winning photos
- 2014: uploaded photos from Belgium / uploaded photos from Luxembourg / winning photos