Wikipedia Statistics - Edit and Revert Trends

Wikipedia Statistics - Edit and Revert Trends: Aragonese Saturday July 31, 2010

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Monthly trend in number of edits

Also shown is monthly trend for total reverts, for scale comparison

Chart shows absolute numbers (y axis scale shows number of edits relative (%) to busiest month)

Plot Edits

Monthly trend in revert activity, relative to edit volume

Per x edits, were anonymous edits reverted more often than edits by bots or by registered users?

Chart shows ratio reverts:edits per class of editors (registered or anonymous users or bots).
Note: often peaks in revert ratio in early years are not so significant as in later years:
low absolute edit counts easily led to high fluctuations in revert ratio.

Plot Reverts

Revert ratio is ratio reverts:edits per class of editors (registered or anonymous users or bots).
Only reverts detected by md5 matching are considered here, not (partial) manual reverts only detectable by edit comment.

Reverts is less than reverted edits! Sometimes several edits are undone with one revert.
Reverts broken down by number of reverted edits: 1 edit:91%, 2 edits:6%, 3 edits:2%, 4 edits:1%, 5 edits:0%, >5 edits:1%

When several revisions were reverted in one action, the oldest reverted revision determines editor class (and coloring):
is this a reverted user edit (reg/anon) or a reverted bot edit?

Monthly trend in revert activity towards anonymous edits

Are anonymous edits reverted often, and if so, by what type of reverter?

Chart shows absolute numbers (y axis scale shows number of edits relative (%) to busiest month)
Note: for many (not all) larger projects the not reverted edits show less seasonal fluctuation than the reverted edits

Plot Anons

'All anonymous edits' is same red line from first chart, scaled up vertically
Put succinctly: red - black = blue + brown + green
Only reverts detected by md5 matching are considered here, not (partial) manual reverts only detectable by edit comment.

Percentages are an approximation, as two simplifying assumptions have been made:
1) Anonymous edits are reverted only once (in other words edit wars on anon edits are not taken into account).
2) On each revert only one anonymous edit was undone. A frequency count of multiple revision reverts shows this is a simplification:
Reverts broken down by number of reverted edits: 1 edit:91%, 2 edits:6%, 3 edits:2%, 4 edits:1%, 5 edits:0%, >5 edits:1%

Distribution of reverts

Breakdown per namespace, type of reverted editor (registered or anonymous user or bot), type of reverter (same), was it a self revert or not, per time period.
Note: a high percentage in any segment can relate to a high absolute number of edits for that segment, or a high revert ratio, or both (please consult charts above for context)
.Projects pages are excluded due to enormous amount of false positives: some status pages are cleared often as normal process

Distribution of reverts, each subdivision adds up to 100%
Namespace(s)		Reverted editor		Revert by		Self revert
Articles	84.3%	Reg user	16.9%	Reg user	87.0%	Self	32.4%
				Reg user	87.0%	Others	67.6%
				Anon user	7.5%
				Bot	5.6%
		Anon user	28.2%	Reg user	89.1%
				Anon user	9.9%	Self	40.4%
				Anon user	9.9%	Others	59.6%
				Bot	1.0%
		Bot	50.2%	Reg user	13.9%
				Anon user	0.4%
				Bot	85.7%	Self	41.2%
				Bot	85.7%	Others	58.8%
		Unknown	4.7%	Reg User	78.8%
				Anon User	5.9%
				Bot	15.3%
Other Non- Project Pages	15.7%	Reg user	36.7%
		Anon user	10.6%
		Bot	42.9%
		Unknown	9.8%
Unknown = comments mentions (partial) revert, but no md5 match
Reg = registered, Anon = anonymous

Distribution of reverts, each percentage is share of total reverts
Namespace(s)		Reverted editor		Revert by		Self revert
Articles	84.3%	Reg user	14.3%	Reg user	12.4%	Self	4.0%
				Reg user	12.4%	Others	8.4%
				Anon user	1.1%
				Bot	0.8%
		Anon user	23.8%	Reg user	21.2%
				Anon user	2.3%	Self	0.9%
				Anon user	2.3%	Others	1.4%
				Bot	0.2%
		Bot	42.4%	Reg user	5.9%
				Anon user	0.2%
				Bot	36.3%	Self	14.9%
				Bot	36.3%	Others	21.4%
		Unknown	3.9%	Reg User	3.1%
				Anon User	0.2%
				Bot	0.6%
Other Non- Project Pages	15.7%	Reg user	5.8%
		Anon user	1.7%
		Bot	6.7%
		Unknown	1.5%
Unknown = comments mentions (partial) revert, but no md5 match
Reg = registered, Anon = anonymous

Distribution of reverts, per year and type
2010	2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004
2.4%	5.4%	3.4%	4.8%	4.2%	8.2%	22.2%
4.9%	7.8%	7.4%	17.6%	3.4%	1.4%	-
0.4%	0.7%	1.4%	1.2%	2.5%	1.4%	-
0.4%	2.4%	0.4%	0.3%	0.2%	-	-
12.1%	20.0%	19.2%	33.3%	28.4%	30.1%	11.1%
0.2%	0.9%	0.8%	0.7%	3.2%	6.8%	11.1%
0.1%	0.2%	0.5%	2.1%	8.4%	12.3%	-
0.1%	0.8%	-	0.1%	0.2%	-	-
15.2%	6.8%	2.7%	0.9%	-	-	-
0.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	-	-	-
29.7%	5.1%	15.7%	6.9%	17.3%	-	-
21.4%	31.3%	21.6%	14.9%	11.4%	-	-
3.9%	3.9%	2.1%	2.7%	1.9%	1.4%	44.4%
-	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%	1.5%	1.4%	-
0.6%	1.1%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	-	-
3.3%	4.9%	3.5%	10.2%	12.8%	5.5%	-
0.5%	0.9%	2.1%	1.4%	3.4%	19.2%	11.1%
3.1%	4.9%	17.1%	1.1%	0.2%	2.7%	-
1.1%	2.5%	1.2%	1.2%	0.8%	9.6%	-
totals reverts per year
1 k	1 k	2 k	1 k	475	73	9

Distribution of reverts, like table above, but percentages are share of md5 detected reverts only, for article namespace only
Namespace(s)	Reverted editor		Revert by		Self revert
	Reg user	17.8%	Reg user	15.4%	Self	5.0%
			Reg user	15.4%	Others	10.4%
			Anon user	1.3%
			Bot	1.0%
	Anon user	29.6%	Reg user	26.3%
			Anon user	2.9%	Self	1.2%
			Anon user	2.9%	Others	1.7%
			Bot	0.3%
	Bot	52.7%	Reg user	7.3%
			Anon user	0.2%
			Bot	45.1%	Self	18.6%
			Bot	45.1%	Others	26.6%
Reg = registered, Anon = anonymous

Distribution of reverts, like table above, but percentages are share of md5 detected reverts only, for article namespace only
2010	2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004
2.8%	6.6%	4.7%	5.8%	5.3%	13.6%	50.0%
5.7%	9.6%	10.2%	21.2%	4.3%	2.3%	-
0.5%	0.8%	1.9%	1.4%	3.2%	2.3%	-
0.5%	3.0%	0.5%	0.3%	0.3%	-	-
13.9%	24.5%	26.2%	40.2%	35.9%	50.0%	25.0%
0.2%	1.1%	1.1%	0.9%	4.0%	11.4%	25.0%
0.2%	0.2%	0.7%	2.5%	10.6%	20.5%	-
0.2%	1.0%	-	0.1%	0.3%	-	-
17.4%	8.3%	3.7%	1.1%	-	-	-
0.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	-	-	-
34.0%	6.2%	21.5%	8.3%	21.8%	-	-
24.5%	38.3%	29.5%	18.0%	14.4%	-	-
totals reverts per year
1 k	1 k	1 k	916	376	44	4

Top Rankings

Users				Content
Most Active Reverters		Most Reverted Editors		Most Reverted Articles		Most Reverted Other Non-Project Pages
# Rv	User/Bot	# Rv	User/Bot	# Rv	Article	# Rv	Page
714	CHV	589	AraBot	26	Idioma aragonés	16	Template:Monezipio Aragón
563	Manuel Trujillo Berges	262	Xqbot	18	Castiella y Leyón	15	User:Willtron
408	Willtron	238	SieBot	18	Idioma arabe	9	MediaWiki:Common.css
308	AraBot	231	TXiKiBoT	15	Estatos Unitos	8	MediaWiki:Sitenotice
264	Juanpabl	184	CarsracBot	15	Daniel Zueras	7	User:Manuel Trujillo Berges
231	Xqbot	163	JAnDbot	14	Francia	6	User:Lascorz/Atenzions
214	TXiKiBoT	152	Lascorz	14	Espanya	6	Category:Usuario de
211	SieBot	146	Jpbot	13	Castiella	6	User talk:CHV
175	Jpbot	112	VolkovBot	13	Real Zaragoza	6	User:CHV
162	JAnDbot	103	Manuel Trujillo Berges	13	Berlín	6	Template:Estato desapareixito
135	CarsracBot	95	CHV	12	Renaxedura	6	User talk:Willtron
99	Synthebot	84	Willtron	12	Astronomía	6	Talk:Portalada
90	VolkovBot	71	Thijs!bot	12	Aragón	6	Template:Localidat Espanya
86	Escarbot	58	Synthebot	12	David Villa	5	MediaWiki:Monobook.css
56	EBRO	57	Chabi	11	Albania	5	MediaWiki:Common.js
50	Thijs!bot	43	Loveless	10	NOX	5	User:OiraM
48	Lascorz	42	Rey cantonal II	10	Suiza	4	Template:Portalada/Proyeuto
44	MelancholieBot	38	EBRO	10	Australia	4	User:Juanpabl
42	Cometstyles	36	MelancholieBot	10	Arabia Saudí	4	Template:Infobox País
34	Luckas-bot	35	BOTarate	10	Zaragoza	4	Category:Usuario es
30	Loveless	35	84.231.242.141	9	Nueva York	4	Template:Infobox País simbolos
29	AlleborgoBot	31	AlleborgoBot	9	Armenia	4	Template:Aracheoloc
28	Chabi	31	Escarbot	9	Condato de Korçë	4	Template:D'o mes actual
26	Ptbotgourou	29	Juanpabl	9	Reino Unito	4	Template:Sura
25	Sz-iwbot	28	Almabot	9	Fotografía	3	Category:Usuario en-3
23	Wutsje	23	Jotterbot	9	Republica Turca d'o Norte de Chipre	3	Template:Taxobox genus authority
21	Rubinbot	22	Ptbotgourou	9	Israel	3	User:El Mexicano
20	DSisyphBot	20	Rubinbot	9	Eslovenia	3	Template:Supa10
19	SpBot	20	CommonsDelinker	9	Turquía	3	Template:Aragón/Sabebas
18	Euku	18	199.120.75.132	9	Cristianismo	3	User:AraBot
17	Alexbot	15	Rey cantonal	9	Charles Darwin	3	Category:Borrar
17	BOTarate	15	SassoBot	8	Fuego	3	User:BOTarate/Municipios
16	BotMultichill	14	El estremeñu	8	Idioma vasco	3	User talk:Juanpabl
16	Rastrojo	14	79.155.228.196	8	Portugal	3	Category:Usuario fr-2
15	Dinamik-bot	14	Alexbot	8	Azerbaichán	3	User:Manuel Trujillo Berges/Articlos creyatos
15	Deivid	14	PipepBot	8	Matematicas	3	Template:Localidá
15	ArthurBot	13	79.52.180.79	8	Granada	3	User:Az1568
13	Alecs.bot	13	Luckas-bot	8	Barack Obama	3	Category:Periodismo
13	AstaBOTh15	11	Darkicebot	7	Imperio Otomán	2	Template:Border
12	PipepBot	11	YurikBot	7	Mahoma	2	Category:Pueblos mongols
12	Robbot	11	SpBot	7	Italia	2	Category:Santos
9	WikiDreamer Bot	10	BotMultichill	7	Londres	2	Category:Usuario en-4
9	YurikBot	9	ArthurBot	7	Marruecos	2	Template:Taxobox domain entry
9	195.55.104.86	9	Purbo T	7	Alemanya	2	Template:Lugars de Puent de Montanyana
9	FoxBot	9	195.76.80.122	7	Estonia	2	Category:Usuario la-1
8	Bresca	8	Dinamik-bot	7	Condato d'Elbasan	2	Category:Estatos d'America d'o Norte
8	62.101.186.49	8	Germán Villa	7	Ordinador	2	Category:Usuario es-2
7	Fry1989	7	Robbot	7	Arquitectura	2	Category:Anglaterra
7	Spacebirdy	7	GhalyBot	7	Estremenyo (lingüistica)	2	Category:Usuario ksh
7	Tangotango	7	RobotQuistnix	7	París	2	User talk:El Mexicano
Bot names are in dark red
#Rv is revert actions, not reverted revisions (sometimes a revert action undoes several revisions).
Only reverts detected by md5 match are considered here, not (partial) reverts only detectable via comments.
Projects pages are excluded due to enormous amount of false positives: some status pages are cleared often as normal process

Generated on Wednesday August 4, 2010 from recent database dump files.
Data processed up to Saturday July 31, 2010
Please note that the lengthy dump process (many weeks) means a delay in publishing these statistics is always to be expected.

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