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I'm pretty surprised by a number of things here. First and foremost, how popular Polish and Catalan are. Secondly, I thought that there would be vastly more English articles than any other language, and this isn't the case.

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There are around 3,500,000 English articles (versus 1,200,000 German ones, the next largest language).

This isn't apparent in the graph as by default it has a logarithmic scale; you can set it to linear, try it and see.

Also esperanto being fourth in total number of articles for a while. Interseting and well executed, thanks for the link.

Unfortunately, on some of the smaller wikipedias (by users), automatic article creation through algorithmic translation of en.wp is fairly common. The result is a large volume of poor quality articles. Esperanto was one of the wikis that fell victim to this at first.

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