Ratio of language links to full text in Wikipedias

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LanguagePagesLang. linksDouble linksText sizeLang. links size Ratio
en 9,442,572 11,004,233 3,336 23,493,211,208 251,168,630
1.1%
de 2,398,860 7,354,044 1,037 7,424,365,959 163,267,413
2.2%
fr 2,458,220 8,142,268 692 6,665,992,925 181,428,492
2.7%
nl 1,497,349 7,029,529 226 2,794,498,494 155,362,648
5.6%
it 1,390,304 7,471,462 252 4,631,880,840 165,312,393
3.6%
pl 1,170,427 6,982,923 315 3,312,448,329 153,767,856
4.6%
es 2,229,025 6,999,191 1,027 4,729,058,852 154,735,850
3.3%
ru 1,816,164 6,388,713 727 4,663,607,994 141,433,067
3.0%
ja 1,298,119 4,757,604 1,125 2,782,125,476 103,590,598
3.7%
pt 1,293,630 6,495,902 1,577 2,558,999,940 142,329,903
5.6%
sv 898,695 5,023,957 206 1,409,801,275 109,606,269
7.8%
zh 839,587 3,867,568 457 1,206,723,207 83,455,005
6.9%
ca 627,281 4,548,237 216 1,730,357,731 98,275,258
5.7%
uk 649,530 4,517,528 379 1,474,998,330 95,227,247
6.5%
no 522,277 3,792,858 147 1,002,002,871 82,455,251
8.2%
fi 476,729 3,812,587 172 1,133,601,570 81,619,218
7.2%
vi 516,873 3,739,995 285 1,017,727,487 79,311,869
7.8%
cs 382,786 3,226,389 72 1,089,208,534 68,404,011
6.3%
hu 351,382 2,988,176 197 1,257,070,721 63,934,769
5.1%
ko 362,063 2,862,755 192 520,860,423 59,431,240
11.4%
id 378,421 2,521,227 100 635,833,055 52,480,491
8.3%
tr 389,755 2,679,789 347 782,429,745 55,400,064
7.1%
ro 364,969 2,739,457 127 653,367,373 56,209,780
8.6%
fa 560,885 2,575,741 181 577,734,028 52,253,009
9.0%
ar 337,538 2,267,264 176 545,354,655 49,144,742
9.0%
da 258,136 2,654,889 90 534,379,469 54,614,620
10.2%
eo 277,203 3,047,468 159 466,149,419 60,514,735
13.0%
sr 320,355 2,719,827 119 641,795,837 55,069,084
8.6%
lt 220,013 2,156,408 83 396,940,977 43,371,901
10.9%
sl 185,206 1,765,109 140 465,065,134 35,529,333
7.6%
sk 220,976 3,098,141 32 532,657,130 62,658,999
11.8%
ms 157,977 2,127,933 96 357,839,364 42,729,169
11.9%
he 255,776 2,468,236 99 647,602,237 51,364,005
7.9%
bg 199,598 2,461,505 216 502,658,013 51,427,378
10.2%
kk 142,541 1,028,710 72 267,325,326 18,591,076
7.0%
eu 176,948 2,757,654 44 586,183,286 56,061,513
9.6%
vo 240,632 1,975,099 18 163,623,294 39,206,093
24.0%
war 121,890 2,482,643 1 90,443,943 49,045,157
54.2%
hr 151,171 2,109,756 346 434,795,403 42,351,732
9.7%
hi 125,989 935,961 178 260,320,173 17,680,463
6.8%
et 162,508 1,871,891 201 291,025,478 37,268,768
12.8%
az 136,882 1,248,399 68 216,173,424 23,422,802
10.8%
gl 113,703 1,759,990 53 330,054,040 35,047,382
10.6%
simple 115,295 2,019,057 88 253,744,595 41,265,858
16.3%
nn 139,677 1,652,131 94 226,578,629 31,790,577
14.0%
th 164,731 1,580,567 141 343,883,448 31,755,442
9.2%
new 95,182 442,941 0 103,733,187 6,870,421
6.6%
el 108,629 1,639,731 110 378,493,176 32,438,521
8.6%
la 99,307 1,905,326 11 197,366,754 37,912,855
19.2%
roa-rup 62,260 166,402 1 16,813,029 3,145,207
18.7%
oc 69,250 1,694,744 14 175,591,184 33,038,367
18.8%
tl 127,344 1,188,788 28 106,859,089 21,696,447
20.3%
mk 795,036 1,305,522 59 322,353,807 25,603,190
7.9%
ka 77,313 1,437,640 57 172,749,738 28,194,212
16.3%
ht 56,437 714,054 29 73,656,381 12,904,491
17.5%
sh 105,851 1,523,879 97 264,511,413 29,910,161
11.3%
pms 52,779 898,513 61 69,100,163 18,436,579
26.7%
te 65,721 404,577 98 141,640,220 7,381,282
5.2%
ta 67,982 832,287 129 176,880,471 16,528,946
9.3%
ceb 51,219 981,790 0 51,667,791 20,286,859
39.3%
be-x-old 59,615 1,131,823 22 129,295,832 21,142,268
16.4%
br 57,148 1,214,039 184 121,532,281 22,866,227
18.8%
sq 53,946 937,287 19 112,990,982 17,309,898
15.3%
lv 95,152 1,257,237 17 188,097,772 25,100,727
13.3%
jv 49,540 797,801 190 85,460,011 14,565,595
17.0%
be 62,261 1,379,454 31 131,955,338 26,425,120
20.0%
cy 51,598 1,109,797 16 85,437,215 20,569,660
24.1%
lb 43,386 950,805 35 97,420,492 17,630,723
18.1%
mg 76,378 644,814 11 108,911,628 12,684,700
11.6%
mr 61,532 968,962 18 77,089,594 18,397,610
23.9%
is 50,151 997,004 45 102,520,105 18,914,006
18.4%
bs 42,516 1,174,671 12 124,410,738 22,305,224
17.9%
yo 36,545 876,568 2 35,195,799 16,115,322
45.8%
an 50,249 954,559 4 105,606,010 17,577,863
16.6%
bpy 24,984 552,651 1 49,951,305 9,818,344
19.7%
lmo 34,579 842,294 39 57,869,389 14,876,127
25.7%
fy 31,869 735,525 13 72,790,204 13,256,990
18.2%
sw 37,206 893,570 10 63,105,209 15,990,908
25.3%
bn 177,037 826,530 60 109,148,352 15,126,257
13.9%
io 24,922 956,678 12 47,548,624 17,314,192
36.4%
ml 66,089 598,761 47 104,502,966 11,616,886
11.1%
gu 23,494 184,924 23 58,892,791 3,433,247
5.8%
pnb 25,229 854,543 14 45,081,489 16,190,553
35.9%
af 32,724 929,029 15 101,561,831 16,993,076
16.7%
hy 37,139 908,371 29 77,944,041 17,067,971
21.9%
ne 24,432 340,625 107 36,428,435 5,921,046
16.3%
nds 24,395 743,668 8 65,115,037 13,547,294
20.8%
scn 32,547 737,190 4 34,010,290 12,845,748
37.8%
ur 34,618 732,047 24 46,799,770 12,638,662
27.0%
ku 28,544 447,806 4 31,657,004 8,397,174
26.5%
zh-yue 40,744 675,359 25 33,113,411 11,590,516
35.0%
qu 34,864 694,787 11 54,278,574 11,812,496
21.8%
su 19,943 577,893 61 46,450,639 9,556,507
20.6%
diq 18,998 319,356 4 22,883,669 5,703,002
24.9%
ast 21,834 738,252 30 63,028,691 12,851,149
20.4%
tt 21,100 528,395 132 45,656,822 8,817,102
19.3%
ga 19,492 654,728 126 42,688,788 12,266,553
28.7%
nap 14,434 568,253 1 26,721,919 9,370,644
35.1%
cv 15,703 592,419 13 32,756,060 9,719,153
29.7%
bat-smg 16,938 338,947 1 14,747,690 6,245,104
42.3%
ia 16,094 569,013 1 24,642,361 10,538,874
42.8%
wa 24,492 253,421 7 23,484,021 4,497,141
19.1%
am 16,353 379,043 2 12,592,647 5,777,644
45.9%
kn 16,922 372,302 107 115,565,399 6,775,966
5.9%
als 14,576 331,084 7 55,392,503 6,555,346
11.8%
map-bms 13,726 262,702 8 16,767,592 3,938,635
23.5%
bug 10,742 244,001 0 9,137,256 5,130,267
56.1%
my 19,275 255,112 362 54,843,437 4,832,757
8.8%
zh-min-nan 17,566 562,286 8 19,676,821 10,555,230
53.6%
tg 13,078 371,963 10 16,869,149 6,891,417
40.9%
vec 16,261 575,386 40 26,674,120 9,507,712
35.6%
yi 19,371 417,291 5 25,276,946 7,594,547
30.0%
roa-tara 10,309 140,617 0 19,132,280 2,662,633
13.9%
gd 13,399 573,933 18 20,880,999 9,519,606
45.6%
os 17,205 515,620 1 20,731,215 8,332,483
40.2%
arz 13,492 410,734 1 24,555,484 7,595,070
30.9%
nah 11,347 499,590 2 16,296,897 7,952,112
48.8%
sah 10,303 417,916 1 16,377,725 7,003,717
42.8%
sco 11,180 391,253 15 32,343,919 7,598,549
23.5%
uz 17,117 618,458 7 28,158,793 9,970,975
35.4%
pam 8,089 284,458 8 24,405,925 5,512,180
22.6%
hif 10,215 276,543 0 17,214,595 4,939,039
28.7%
sa 11,999 344,415 143 17,105,168 5,089,687
29.8%
mn 9,613 374,117 89 34,554,965 7,396,165
21.4%
hsb 10,025 222,455 0 18,203,579 4,191,535
23.0%
mi 7,754 213,067 1 11,715,752 3,197,758
27.3%
li 12,702 323,502 41 25,484,274 5,875,651
23.1%
ba 16,843 148,245 1 43,694,609 2,851,111
6.5%
co 7,769 420,847 1 12,629,296 6,599,312
52.3%
si 12,955 127,296 4 40,887,256 2,477,089
6.1%
gan 8,812 410,771 1 9,208,944 6,322,680
68.7%
glk 7,993 11,408 0 4,439,538 206,692
4.7%
fo 7,297 283,118 5 14,351,212 5,289,581
36.9%
bcl 6,128 268,371 17 11,027,154 4,799,479
43.5%
ckb 8,466 319,451 16 17,019,834 5,651,267
33.2%
bar 9,944 194,196 3 26,324,871 3,762,940
14.3%
bo 9,581 186,698 8 13,432,721 3,250,934
24.2%
mrj 6,629 138,044 4 9,116,361 2,518,152
27.6%
fiu-vro 5,539 257,468 1 8,927,690 4,442,907
49.8%
nds-nl 7,655 224,449 3 15,885,144 3,920,267
24.7%
ilo 5,688 216,059 26 13,985,134 4,032,307
28.8%
ky 9,787 124,159 9 21,862,345 2,357,337
10.8%
tk 5,183 399,891 0 12,517,855 6,012,863
48.0%
vls 6,801 230,175 10 13,257,206 3,980,847
30.0%
se 5,345 259,033 45 8,796,672 4,470,494
50.8%
gv 5,593 283,435 44 16,116,040 5,171,194
32.1%
dv 4,764 165,250 3 11,628,117 3,055,461
26.3%
nrm 5,564 319,787 4 10,020,919 5,009,164
50.0%
rue 4,281 237,864 9 7,610,489 4,243,621
55.8%
pag 3,643 64,150 0 2,911,256 1,202,793
41.3%
pa 4,744 182,592 0 8,780,014 3,035,665
34.6%
rm 4,036 120,727 4 9,222,810 2,294,295
24.9%
mzn 10,806 111,959 1 11,080,956 2,380,447
21.5%
ps 5,516 138,099 1 13,116,212 2,540,741
19.4%
km 5,387 75,567 41 17,690,701 1,498,176
8.5%
udm 5,032 120,037 0 6,512,479 2,096,816
32.2%
fur 3,613 194,315 1 8,364,274 3,412,723
40.8%
csb 3,259 221,873 0 5,786,413 3,591,236
62.1%
wuu 5,857 115,920 70 6,184,569 2,242,989
36.3%
mt 4,227 123,228 0 17,830,797 2,499,854
14.0%
ug 4,937 174,977 1 10,285,344 3,216,923
31.3%
lij 3,340 185,974 1 5,886,358 3,264,434
55.5%
koi 5,139 88,555 1 8,891,066 1,605,419
18.1%
pi 3,171 219,711 0 4,227,242 2,801,986
66.3%
mhr 5,519 226,449 1 9,223,873 3,993,156
43.3%
kv 4,594 215,038 19 9,426,084 3,729,694
39.6%
ang 4,873 160,152 4 7,690,174 2,992,076
38.9%
lad 3,640 131,752 0 6,840,083 2,565,856
37.5%
bh 2,817 231,798 1 4,846,227 3,011,713
62.1%
sc 3,485 131,798 0 6,259,848 2,481,657
39.6%
nov 2,841 232,555 0 8,917,591 3,934,616
44.1%
zh-classical 5,494 103,994 2 4,441,791 1,864,625
42.0%
ksh 3,730 151,081 7 6,965,031 2,651,505
38.1%
cbk-zam 1,025 54,336 0 3,971,417 1,062,401
26.8%
so 3,416 151,149 11 7,171,585 2,626,861
36.6%
hak 2,742 114,465 7 3,660,721 2,059,837
56.3%
nv 3,924 100,929 1 4,819,134 1,820,938
37.8%
kw 3,343 176,009 3 6,227,882 3,309,606
53.1%
frp 2,371 197,551 0 5,306,977 3,598,645
67.8%
stq 3,950 183,025 3 8,515,677 3,180,788
37.4%
szl 3,234 136,509 0 6,342,742 2,516,954
39.7%
ext 3,183 193,257 2 8,087,558 3,586,802
44.3%
or 3,774 116,863 6 6,788,544 1,771,899
26.1%
ie 2,004 155,012 1 3,998,550 2,797,256
70.0%
pcd 3,306 60,587 1 6,264,477 1,142,081
18.2%
xal 2,077 184,094 0 5,312,427 3,093,321
58.2%
haw 2,066 83,722 0 2,370,811 1,574,492
66.4%
xmf 4,340 143,813 3 8,751,761 2,788,369
31.9%
rw 2,907 100,582 3 3,567,322 1,870,654
52.4%
ln 2,497 124,244 3 3,798,474 2,104,090
55.4%
frr 4,013 134,170 0 6,517,329 2,314,802
35.5%
pdc 2,247 69,349 3 2,919,018 1,268,697
43.5%
pfl 2,345 50,800 0 5,103,484 974,164
19.1%
ay 2,547 97,010 5 8,362,404 1,664,384
19.9%
krc 3,427 179,548 0 6,502,607 2,869,671
44.1%
to 2,837 16,910 0 2,050,149 314,318
15.3%
ace 2,155 109,574 0 2,921,845 2,008,045
68.7%
eml 2,370 73,099 26 6,234,116 1,342,952
21.5%
crh 2,052 95,311 3 4,801,092 1,728,009
36.0%
ce 2,153 93,727 1 6,887,742 1,541,564
22.4%
gn 2,321 122,109 0 5,446,814 2,055,087
37.7%
myv 2,274 135,840 1 3,912,644 2,228,847
57.0%
zea 3,350 128,457 0 8,523,033 2,337,821
27.4%
arc 2,956 115,348 1 2,930,997 1,974,381
67.4%
kl 1,768 144,583 0 4,041,960 2,596,846
64.2%
pap 1,583 102,917 0 3,913,944 1,831,065
46.8%
gag 2,081 92,940 1 7,382,083 1,590,709
21.5%
bjn 1,524 78,764 0 4,362,985 1,380,486
31.6%
lbe 1,816 56,789 0 1,926,802 943,683
49.0%
tpi 1,423 93,666 0 2,699,000 1,582,483
58.6%
wo 1,586 92,360 0 4,746,217 1,644,574
34.7%
jbo 2,517 126,498 1 5,267,536 2,175,631
41.3%
as 11,563 38,534 2 8,782,239 730,270
8.3%
mdf 1,870 62,116 0 2,786,326 1,048,893
37.6%
av 1,512 51,235 0 1,694,024 790,175
46.6%
kab 1,657 58,911 0 3,156,163 1,074,381
34.0%
dsb 2,058 107,630 0 5,918,028 1,989,774
33.6%
ty 913 54,161 0 1,093,573 869,660
79.5%
sn 1,295 63,790 2 1,813,233 1,053,758
58.1%
srn 1,008 56,472 3 2,646,277 878,162
33.2%
lo 1,559 40,293 1 3,102,826 757,511
24.4%
ab 1,085 49,379 1 1,953,415 941,841
48.2%
ig 1,094 76,705 2 2,009,675 1,350,879
67.2%
na 1,024 61,023 1 1,535,259 1,071,806
69.8%
tet 800 74,134 0 2,027,056 1,186,690
58.5%
kg 790 48,402 0 1,182,495 860,446
72.8%
mwl 1,573 88,761 0 16,105,704 1,715,777
10.7%
kaa 699 51,124 0 2,291,041 961,643
42.0%
ltg 936 38,864 0 2,132,696 695,799
32.6%
nso 623 49,745 0 1,324,895 867,941
65.5%
rmy 625 34,931 0 1,436,632 660,964
46.0%
cu 1,304 47,145 0 1,564,566 841,889
53.8%
kbd 1,057 58,060 0 3,661,453 1,096,229
29.9%
tn 521 11,809 0 1,772,941 224,885
12.7%
sm 528 34,277 0 1,141,848 640,788
56.1%
mo 581 10,100 16 759,176 180,126
23.7%
sd 717 10,515 0 1,531,021 191,464
12.5%
bi 481 43,798 0 1,119,010 801,059
71.6%
bm 541 33,548 0 962,377 597,546
62.1%
ik 609 25,265 0 611,803 437,274
71.5%
ss 440 46,929 0 1,292,759 829,046
64.1%
iu 1,135 35,424 38 852,408 589,554
69.2%
pih 434 52,932 0 1,114,941 928,739
83.3%
za 794 47,790 0 1,664,080 878,632
52.8%
chr 904 40,020 1 3,790,632 676,534
17.8%
pnt 397 43,575 0 1,554,016 786,627
50.6%
got 715 32,354 0 1,278,788 556,198
43.5%
cdo 424 21,110 0 1,110,334 400,242
36.0%
ee 337 41,393 0 957,295 726,397
75.9%
ha 442 24,341 0 1,040,592 429,979
41.3%
zu 808 55,296 0 2,054,905 987,082
48.0%
ti 301 14,336 0 337,021 240,452
71.3%
ks 144 12,722 0 248,470 203,910
82.1%
bxr 380 13,764 0 807,189 239,331
29.6%
om 365 15,621 0 1,138,762 294,443
25.9%
ve 238 9,141 0 329,177 159,259
48.4%
ts 258 23,176 1 638,360 392,453
61.5%
sg 230 22,084 0 523,517 392,255
74.9%
rn 252 15,576 1 404,393 269,181
66.6%
cr 335 13,321 0 354,889 209,320
59.0%
dz 231 16,958 0 459,203 299,886
65.3%
ak 164 13,003 0 308,071 228,702
74.2%
fj 207 9,982 0 265,914 176,583
66.4%
tum 186 14,229 0 357,344 245,249
68.6%
lg 271 13,542 0 441,621 237,074
53.7%
ch 214 12,249 0 359,646 220,951
61.4%
chy 610 26,016 4 647,823 441,902
68.2%
ny 172 9,850 0 338,753 175,209
51.7%
st 178 20,244 0 430,177 347,894
80.9%
ff 241 15,776 0 446,619 270,078
60.5%
tw 141 13,974 0 290,482 239,020
82.3%
xh 159 14,760 0 451,197 264,660
58.7%
ki 276 15,971 0 418,404 289,761
69.3%
ng 25 2,327 0 76,877 43,691
56.8%
ii 16 628 0 25,080 8,930
35.6%
cho 20 221 0 9,876 3,868
39.2%
mh 12 356 0 13,823 7,632
55.2%
aa 3 190 0 3,815 3,371
88.4%
kj 6 268 0 5,954 4,340
72.9%
ho 3 140 0 2,816 2,183
77.5%
mus 3 4 0 1,053 77
7.3%
kr 1 0 0 424 0
0.0%
all ∑ 40,853,354 240,011,221 19,432 92,822,150,375 4,901,549,670
5.3%
all ∅ 144,870 851,103 68 329,156,561 17,381,381
33.0%

Explanation

Wikipedia exists in more than 280 languages. Often, two articles in two different language editions of Wikipedia are about the same thing: in this case they are connected with something called a language link. These language links are written in the source wikitext of the article. The English article on Berlin has corresponding articles in more than a hundred languages - and if you take a look at the end of the Wikitext for Berlin you will find the so called language links to all these other articles on the other Wikipedias. These make sure that you see the list of languages on the left hand side of many Wikipedia articles.

If you now go to any of the other language versions of this article, you will basically find the same list again and again - merely replacing the link to its own version with a link to the English version. Therefore, there are more than hundred articles that all include the basically same list to each other. To keep these links updated, bots crawl the Wikipedias and try to keep the links synchronized.

On smaller Wikipedias this actually means that in some stub articles a huge part of the actual content of the article is created just by the language links (see this example).

Here is an explanation of the columns:

The page has been created with three Python scripts, all released under the BSD-license: getlanglinks.py, createindex.py and prettydoublelinks.py

The dumps used where the most recent ones as downloaded on June 22nd 2012.

The whole idea of this page is to give a feeling of the effect of the first phase of Wikidata, the project I am currently working on. Wikidata aims to centralize most of the language links in one repository and thus remove them from the wikitext of the individual language versions.

Created June 23rd 2012, Denny Vrandečić.