The online encyclopedia, founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, totals over 66 million articles across 342 languages. The Catalan language edition, which was the second to publish articles after the English version in 2001, has nearly 800,000 entries.
This figure places Catalan in the 20th position in the global ranking by article count, surpassing languages with a similar number of speakers such as Serbian, Bulgarian, or Finnish. The first entry published in Catalan was 'àbac' (abacus), referring to the calculation instrument.
Catalan is the fourth language with the highest score in the extension of the 10,000 articles considered key, those that Wikipedia believes all versions should have.
The most notable achievement is that the Catalan version is currently the only one that has completed the list of 10,000 basic articles established by the project, which include figures such as Antoni Gaudí, Salvador Dalí, or Joan Miró, and places like the city of Barcelona or the Sagrada Família.
All versions of Wikipedia registered over 300 billion page views last year. Catalan-speaking users made a total of 2.2 million edits during 2025, with Spain being the country with the most users (16% of the total).
