Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by article count (WP:NOA)

This is a list of Wikipedians by number of article creations.  It runs once a month, on the 1st, and takes one day to two weeks to complete, depending on load. To opt-out: add your name to this page and your position in the list will appear as "Anonymous". To display a template that will help keep track of this accomplishment, add {{User article count ranking}} to your user page. For an alternative list of the same thing with more data see Wikiscan Creating articles is just one way in which editors can contribute to the encyclopedia. Mass creation of stub articles lacking notability is not encouraged and under some circumstances can be disruptive. The order of the top 100 editors in this list has been scrambled in order to discourage mass stub creation. For more information the FAQ describes how the list is created, etc..   As of the last update on 2023-03-01 there are 6,625,153 mainspace pages created by 801,731 unique users. The top 10,000 users created 4,519,543 pages or 68.2% of Wikipedia.   === 1–1000 ===   === 1001–2000 ===   === 2001–3000 ===   === 3001–4000 ===   === 4001–5000 ===   === 5001–10000 === Continued at 5001–10000.  1. How often does it update?As of October 2021, it will start on the 1st and completes one day to two weeks later.2. What if it doesn't update on time?Post a question at Wikipedia talk:List of Wikipedians by article count.3. What if the data is suspect - the numbers don't seem right or my name is missing?Wait for the next run to confirm. The next run might clear it up. Also compare with prior runs.4. How does it count creations?Only pages that exist at the time of list generation are counted, not deleted pages. Because the list is generated by looking at the user associated with the oldest edit to a particular page, it may fail to account for scenarios such as a user creating a redirect that is later expanded by a different user. Or an article creation that is later converted to a redirect.5. How does it work technically?Due to the size of Enwiki it does not use SQL queries because of CPU and memory load, rather it is 100% API driven. At the start of each run, it generates the complete list of ~6 million article titles (via API a few hours). For each title, it queries the API to see who made the first revision. This is saved in an index file (comprising two columns, article title and who made it). The purpose of the index is speed so that in future runs it doesn't have to check the API for every article because the article creator doesn't change and only needs to be determined 1 time. The next time it runs, it generates a new list of ~6 million article titles and for each checks to see if the article is in the index from the previous run, and if not (ie. a new article or renamed), retrieves the creator data from the API and adds it to the index (this takes 12-48 hours). Likewise any deleted pages (in the old index but not the new list) are removed from the index. It then counts the index and posts the top 10,000. It operates in under 40MB of memory because it doesn't hold the full list of users in memory, and doesn't load the full index into memory (via merge sort). As such it can scale indefinitely as Wikipedia grows in size and is easy on WikiMedia resources.6. How can I watchlist the list?Watchlist one of the sub-pages such as WP:List of Wikipedians by article count/1–1000. Watchlisting this page (WP:List of Wikipedians by article count) will not work since regular updates are made to the sub-pages which are transcluded into this one.7. Where does it run?It runs at the WikiMedia datacenter on Toolforge on the Grid, a network of 40+ computers to which jobs are submitted. Because the Grid is inherently unstable by design, resources come and go, the bot is designed to crash and restart without loss of data mid-process. It runs in the continuous pool meaning that if it crashes it is automatically restarted by the Grid.The bot runs from /data/project/botwikiawk/pgcount/pcount.awk. The GitHub page.8. How long does it take?It depends on resource load on the Grid, but in most cases it should finish in no more than 48hrs. If building an index for the first time up to 7 days or more. Periodically the index will be purged and rebuilt to account for username renames.9. Where was it discussed?Wikipedia:Request_a_query#WP:MOSTARTICLES_query (September 23, 2019) Wikipedia:Bot_requests#List_of_Wikipedians_by_article_count (September 16, 2019)10. Why are the Top 100 Randomly Sorted? A concern was raised here (April 2021) that a goal to be #1 could result in unhealthy competition or self-aggrandizement which can lead to questionable editing practices such as machine-assisted stub creations. Would that lead to the same problem to be among the top 100? Possibly, but the software can be adjusted to the Top 500 or whatever might be required. Short of having no list at all there is no perfect solution but this helps to de-emphasize the #1 position. This is a software option that can be disabled.11. Does it work with other language wikis? Yes! It was designed with that in mind. Contact the talk page to set up. It currently runs on Enwiki, Trwiki, and Slwiki. Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits List of bots by number of edits Encyclopédistes § Number of articles  https://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/pages/ – X!'s create pages tool