In October last year, I wrote a post starting to visualize the connections between Wikibases in the ecosystem that had been found and collected on wikibase.world thanks to my bot that I occasionally run. That post made use of the query service visualizations, and in this post I’ll take the visualizations a step further, making use of IPython notebooks and plotly.
Previously I reported the total number of Wikibases tracked in wikibase.world being around 784, with around 755 being active (however I didn’t write down exactly how I determined this). So I’m going to take another stab at that with some code backing up the determinations, rather than just my late night data ramblings.
All of the data shown in this post is generated from the IPython notebook available on Github, on 16 Feb 2025, based on the data on wikibase.world which is maintained as a best effort system.
General numbers
| Metric | Value |
| Wikibases with properties | 777 |
| Wikibases with properties, and more than 10 pages | 600 |
| Wikibases with properties, and more than 10 pages, and 1 or more active users | 264 |
| Wikibases with properties, and more than 10 pages, and 2 or more active users | 129 |
| Wikibases that link to other wikibases | 194 |
| Wikibases that only link to non Wikimedia Foundation wikibases | 5 |
| Wikibases that link to other wikibases, excluding Wikimedia Foundation | 35 |
A few things of note:
- “with properties” is used, as a clear indicator that Wikibase is not only installed, but also used in at least a very basic way. (ie, it has a created Wikibase property). I would use the number of items ideally as a measure here, however as far as I can tell, this is hard to figure out?)
- “with more than 10 pages” is my baseline measure of the site having some content, however this applies across all namespaces, so can also be wikitext pages…
- “active users” are taken from MediaWiki statistics, and apply across all namespaces. These numbers also rely on MediaWiki being correctly maintained and these numbers actually being updated. (Users who have performed an action in the last 30 days)
- “link to other wikibases” are links extracted from sites by Addbot either via external links or specific properties that state they are links to other wikibases. (The code is not pretty, but gives us an initial view)
And summarized in words:
- 264 Wikibases with some content that have been edited in the past 30 days
- 194 Wikibases link in some way to other Wikibases
- Excluding links to Wikidata and Commons, this number comes down to 35 (So Wikidata is very much the centre)
And of course, take all of this with a pinch of salt, these numbers are an initial stab at trying to have an overview of the ecosystem.
An updated web
My October post included some basic visualizations from the query service of wikibase.world.
However, it’s time to get a little more fancy and interactive. (As well as showing all wikibases, not just the linked ones)