Wikipedia Statistics - Edit and Revert Trends

Wikipedia Statistics - Edit and Revert Trends: Samogitian 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:90%, 2 edits:7%, 3 edits:2%, 4 edits:1%, 5 edits:0%, >5 edits:0%

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:90%, 2 edits:7%, 3 edits:2%, 4 edits:1%, 5 edits:0%, >5 edits:0%

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	81.7%	Reg user	12.4%	Reg user	84.2%	Self	47.9%
				Reg user	84.2%	Others	52.1%
				Anon user	5.8%
				Bot	9.9%
		Anon user	25.8%	Reg user	88.5%
				Anon user	9.6%	Self	58.8%
				Anon user	9.6%	Others	41.2%
				Bot	2.0%
		Bot	57.6%	Reg user	4.8%
				Anon user	0.1%
				Bot	95.1%	Self	26.8%
				Bot	95.1%	Others	73.2%
		Unknown	4.2%	Reg User	56.9%
				Anon User	5.2%
				Bot	37.9%
Other Non- Project Pages	18.3%	Reg user	24.6%
		Anon user	21.4%
		Bot	47.6%
		Unknown	6.5%
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	81.7%	Reg user	10.1%	Reg user	8.5%	Self	4.1%
				Reg user	8.5%	Others	4.5%
				Anon user	0.6%
				Bot	1.0%
		Anon user	21.1%	Reg user	18.6%
				Anon user	2.0%	Self	1.2%
				Anon user	2.0%	Others	0.8%
				Bot	0.4%
		Bot	47.0%	Reg user	2.3%
				Anon user	0.1%
				Bot	44.7%	Self	12.0%
				Bot	44.7%	Others	32.7%
		Unknown	3.4%	Reg User	2.0%
				Anon User	0.2%
				Bot	1.3%
Other Non- Project Pages	18.3%	Reg user	4.5%
		Anon user	3.9%
		Bot	8.7%
		Unknown	1.2%
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
-	1.3%	2.1%	9.3%	22.9%
2.2%	8.2%	1.7%	3.8%	4.6%
-	0.5%	0.2%	1.4%	1.8%
1.5%	1.1%	0.4%	1.4%	0.9%
14.6%	14.3%	19.1%	25.3%	31.2%
0.7%	1.4%	1.3%	0.7%	1.8%
-	0.2%	1.5%	2.1%	-
-	1.1%	-	0.3%	-
1.1%	1.4%	1.5%	6.6%	0.9%
-	-	-	0.3%	-
19.0%	13.4%	10.5%	9.3%	0.9%
51.9%	42.6%	31.0%	10.7%	0.9%
-	1.6%	1.5%	5.5%	0.9%
-	-	-	0.7%	0.9%
0.4%	2.7%	1.1%	-	0.9%
-	1.1%	2.8%	9.7%	26.6%
1.1%	1.6%	6.6%	6.2%	4.6%
6.0%	6.5%	18.4%	3.1%	-
1.5%	0.9%	0.2%	3.5%	-
totals reverts per year
268	552	467	289	109

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	13.0%	Reg user	10.9%	Self	5.2%
			Reg user	10.9%	Others	5.7%
			Anon user	0.8%
			Bot	1.3%
	Anon user	26.9%	Reg user	23.8%
			Anon user	2.6%	Self	1.5%
			Anon user	2.6%	Others	1.1%
			Bot	0.5%
	Bot	60.1%	Reg user	2.9%
			Anon user	0.1%
			Bot	57.1%	Self	15.3%
			Bot	57.1%	Others	41.8%
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
-	1.5%	3.1%	13.1%	34.7%
2.5%	9.5%	2.5%	5.3%	6.9%
-	0.6%	0.3%	1.9%	2.8%
1.6%	1.3%	0.6%	1.9%	1.4%
16.0%	16.7%	27.5%	35.4%	47.2%
0.8%	1.7%	1.9%	1.0%	2.8%
-	0.2%	2.2%	2.9%	-
-	1.3%	-	0.5%	-
1.2%	1.7%	2.2%	9.2%	1.4%
-	-	-	0.5%	-
20.9%	15.7%	15.1%	13.1%	1.4%
57.0%	49.8%	44.8%	15.0%	1.4%
totals reverts per year
244	472	324	206	72

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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
165	Hugo.arg	157	SieBot	30	Liankūra salas	18	User:Hugo.arg
145	SieBot	104	JAnDbot	10	Žemaitiu kalba	10	Category:Kandėdatā skobē trintė
106	JAnDbot	94	Xqbot	8	Pėrms poslapis/Senas	7	User:Dirgela
94	Xqbot	68	TXiKiBoT	8	JAV	7	User:DerHexer
53	TXiKiBoT	61	VolkovBot	8	Barack Obama	6	Category:Katalėkībė
46	Tadas12	42	Idioma-bot	7	Čarlzos Darvėns	5	User talk:Hugo.arg
45	VolkovBot	31	71.201.88.178	7	Lietova	4	Template:NedielesStr
43	Zordsdavini	29	Tadas12	7	Hebe Camargo	4	Category:Žėndoulē
39	Viskonsas	25	Synthebot	7	Vėlnios	4	Talk:Pėrms poslapis/Senas
38	Synthebot	22	ArthurBot	6	Australėjė	4	Category:Istuorėjė
29	Luckas-bot	20	CarsracBot	6	Žemaitėjė	4	MediaWiki:About
27	Cometstyles	19	Jotterbot	6	Sluovienėjė	4	User:Tadas12
24	ArthurBot	19	Pleckaitis	6	Estėjė	4	Category:Fizėka
23	Pleckaitis	18	Hugo.arg	6	Egėpts	3	Category:Žornalėstėka
23	CarsracBot	17	MelancholieBot	5	HTML	3	Category:Puolitėka
22	Wutsje	15	Viskonsas	5	Lietovuos nacionalėnė krepšėnė rinktėnė	3	Category:Suostėnės
20	Idioma-bot	14	AlleborgoBot	5	Aduolfos Hitleris	3	User talk:Tadas12
20	Ptbotgourou	14	Valentim	5	Kuolombėjė	3	Template:WikiTorėnīs
20	AlleborgoBot	14	Ptbotgourou	5	Latvėjė	3	User:Algėrds
18	Alexbot	13	Escarbot	5	Mairuonis	3	Category:Bosnėjes ė Hercogovinas krepšininkā
15	SpBot	13	Alexbot	4	Bioluogėjė	3	User talk:Zordsdavini
14	Valentim	12	Samogitia	4	Islandėjė	3	Category:Saulės sėstema
13	Samogitia	12	PipepBot	4	Prancūzėjė	3	Category:User cs
12	Algėrds	10	DragonBot	4	Lordi	3	User talk:Algėrds
12	DragonBot	9	Novelstay	4	Luonduons	2	Category:Žemaitėjės miestā
12	Escarbot	8	TjBot	4	Vuokītėjė	2	Category:Afrėka
11	Rubinbot	7	D'ohBot	4	Pėnktadėinis	2	Category:User en-3
10	MelancholieBot	7	Zordsdavini	4	Indėjė	2	Category:Azėjė
10	PipepBot	7	Rubinbot	4	Irans	2	Category:User fr-2
8	Novelstay	7	GhalyBot	4	Pėrms poslapis	2	Template:User lt
8	Rtz	6	193.219.94.176	4	XV svieta krepšėnė čempiuonats	2	Help:Torėnīs
6	Studymoral	6	Robbot	4	Vietnams	2	Category:Buotā
6	BotMultichill	6	Luckas-bot	4	Vikipedėjė	2	Category:Žmuonis
6	Mike.lifeguard	5	216.185.29.68	4	Euruopas Sājonga	2	Category:User sk
6	GhalyBot	5	Studymoral	4	Kelias į žvaigždes 2	2	Category:San Marins
6	Jotterbot	5	LaaknorBot	4	Jongtėnė Karalīstė	2	Category:User es
6	Mercy	5	195.182.78.4	4	Maurėtanėjė	2	Category:User de
5	LaaknorBot	4	78.57.100.129	4	Tarību Sājonga	2	Category:User sk-N
5	Homo	4	BotMultichill	4	Ognės	2	Category:User de-1
5	Purbo T	4	Almabot	4	Trets Reichs	2	Category:Rosėjė
5	Jorunn	4	Jokela	4	Niojuorks	2	Category:User la-1
4	Egmontbot	4	Rtz	4	Jonas Aistis	2	MediaWiki:Monobook.js
4	D'ohBot	4	SpBot	4	Mozilla Firefox	2	Category:User ast-1
4	J.delanoy	3	PixelBot	4	Makeduonėjė	2	Category:Miestā
4	HerculeBot	3	MastiBot	4	Ėspanu kalba	2	Category:User nl
4	195.250.189.105	3	CommonsDelinker	4	Šveicarėjė	2	Template:GABv
3	MastiBot	3	Žiedas	4	J. K. Rowling	2	User talk:Hégésippe Cormier
3	86.100.66.70	3	Rtz-bot	4	Kauna „Žalgiris“	2	MediaWiki:Monobook.css
3	Dinamik-bot	3	Thijs!bot	3	Rosėjė	2	File:Chernobyl.jpg
3	JhsBot	3	217.77.21.249	3	Marilyn Monroe	2	Category:Mienesē
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#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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