In 2015 I was curious about the article distribution on Wikipedia so I scraped and visualized some data. At the time I was frustrated by the writing quality and I wanted to know how much of Wikipedia was 'quality' and how many of the 5 million articles were in subjects comparable to a general encyclopedia volume.

My images are here:

https://imgcdn.dev/i/c6fJ8 https://imgcdn.dev/i/c6VRy https://imgcdn.dev/i/c6Wn2

and you can compare that to some Wikipedia hosted comparisons:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia#/m... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia