The statistic shows the trend in the number of worldwide Wikipedia contributors since 2001. In January 2002, the number of Wikipedians with more than 10 Wikipedia contributions was 457 and grew to 2.36 million in January 2017.
Number of worldwide Wikipedia contributors from 2001 to 2017
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