Wikipedia Statistics - Edit and Revert Trends: English

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Edit history charts for top 50 Wikipedias / ... for all Wikipedias / Edit and revert counts for all Wikipedias

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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   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   Plot Reverts

Revert ratio is ratio reverts:edits per class of editors (registered or anonymous users or bots).
Only reverts detected by sha1 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:78%, 2 edits:11%, 3 edits:5%, 4 edits:2%, 5 edits:1%, >5 edits:3%

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?


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 editorRevert bySelf revert
Articles84.1%Reg user24.6%Reg user80.9%Self17.2%
Others82.8%
Anon user12.6%
Bot6.5%
Anon user60.3%Reg user75.7%
Anon user14.3%Self52.9%
Others47.1%
Bot10.0%
Bot1.7%Reg user31.7%
Anon user15.7%
Bot52.6%Self41.4%
Others58.6%
Unknown13.4%Reg User82.7%
Anon User7.1%
Bot10.2%
Other
Non-
Project
Pages
15.9%Reg user27.2%
Anon user14.2%
Bot10.6%
Unknown48.1%
Unknown = comments mentions (partial) revert, but no sha1 match
Reg = registered, Anon = anonymous
  
 Distribution of reverts, each percentage is share of total reverts
Namespace(s)Reverted editorRevert bySelf revert
Articles84.1%Reg user20.7%Reg user16.7%Self2.9%
Others13.9%
Anon user2.6%
Bot1.3%
Anon user50.7%Reg user38.4%
Anon user7.3%Self3.8%
Others3.4%
Bot5.0%
Bot1.4%Reg user0.5%
Anon user0.2%
Bot0.8%Self0.3%
Others0.4%
Unknown11.3%Reg User9.3%
Anon User0.8%
Bot1.1%
Other
Non-
Project
Pages
15.9%Reg user4.3%
Anon user2.3%
Bot1.7%
Unknown7.7%
Unknown = comments mentions (partial) revert, but no sha1 match
Reg = registered, Anon = anonymous
  
 Distribution of reverts, per year and type
2016201520142013201220112010200920082007200620052004200320022001
3.3%3.7%3.7%3.2%3.2%3.2%2.6%2.5%2.4%2.3%2.7%2.8%5.3%5.7%10.1%6.9%
15.2%16.4%17.2%13.5%13.7%13.6%12.5%12.6%12.3%13.9%14.1%14.0%19.4%24.0%18.2%16.6%
3.1%2.9%2.9%2.4%2.5%2.5%2.6%2.5%2.4%2.4%2.5%3.2%3.3%3.9%4.5%4.9%
2.0%2.4%3.4%2.4%1.6%1.6%0.9%1.1%0.7%0.7%0.4%0.1%0.1%0.0%--
36.5%34.5%33.4%35.4%35.5%34.4%40.0%38.8%40.7%39.8%44.0%48.7%40.3%36.7%30.3%25.5%
3.6%4.0%3.8%3.8%3.7%3.5%3.8%3.6%3.4%4.1%4.5%6.0%6.0%6.7%8.6%7.1%
3.2%3.0%2.7%2.8%3.1%3.4%3.8%3.8%3.5%4.0%3.3%3.7%2.5%1.9%4.4%2.8%
5.5%5.3%6.0%6.0%9.6%8.2%4.3%4.4%4.7%3.4%2.4%0.0%0.0%0.1%0.1%0.9%
0.5%0.5%0.6%0.5%0.6%0.5%0.5%0.5%0.4%0.3%0.4%0.3%0.6%0.2%0.2%-
0.2%0.2%0.3%0.2%0.3%0.3%0.2%0.2%0.2%0.2%0.2%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%-
0.5%0.5%0.6%0.5%0.5%0.4%0.5%0.3%0.1%0.1%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.3%--
0.4%0.4%0.4%2.6%0.7%0.7%0.3%0.3%0.1%0.1%0.0%0.0%0.0%---
9.1%9.0%8.9%8.2%8.4%8.2%9.7%11.6%10.0%9.3%8.9%8.1%8.4%7.3%10.0%18.4%
0.6%0.7%0.6%0.5%0.5%0.5%0.6%1.3%1.1%1.0%0.7%0.8%0.8%0.7%1.6%5.5%
1.8%1.9%2.1%1.6%2.1%1.8%1.1%0.9%0.6%0.4%0.3%0.0%0.0%---
5.0%4.8%4.6%5.2%4.3%4.4%3.8%3.9%3.9%4.2%4.5%4.4%5.6%6.9%7.0%4.9%
1.8%1.7%1.7%1.8%1.7%1.8%2.2%2.6%2.6%2.6%3.0%3.6%3.1%3.0%2.8%4.1%
1.9%2.5%1.5%4.4%1.9%3.5%1.5%1.0%1.2%1.0%0.2%0.1%0.1%0.0%--
5.8%5.5%5.6%5.0%6.1%7.5%9.2%8.1%9.6%10.3%7.8%4.2%4.5%2.6%2.3%2.3%
 totals reverts per year
3.8 M3.6 M3.3 M3.8 M3.9 M4.4 M5.3 M6.0 M7.2 M7.0 M4.6 M1.2 M243 k43 k8 k651
   

 Distribution of reverts, like table above, but percentages are share
 of sha1 detected reverts only, for article namespace only
Namespace(s)Reverted editorRevert bySelf revert
 Reg user28.4%Reg user23.0%Self4.0%
Others19.0%
Anon user3.6%
Bot1.8%
Anon user69.6%Reg user52.7%
Anon user10.0%Self5.3%
Others4.7%
Bot6.9%
Bot2.0%Reg user0.6%
Anon user0.3%
Bot1.0%Self0.4%
Others0.6%
Reg = registered, Anon = anonymous
  

 Distribution of reverts, like table above, but percentages are
 share of sha1 detected reverts only, for article namespace only
2016201520142013201220112010200920082007200620052004200320022001
4.5%5.1%4.9%4.3%4.3%4.5%3.6%3.6%3.4%3.2%3.6%3.6%6.8%7.1%13.2%10.7%
20.5%22.2%23.0%18.4%18.3%18.8%17.4%17.8%17.4%19.5%18.9%17.7%25.0%30.2%23.9%25.7%
4.3%3.9%3.8%3.3%3.4%3.5%3.6%3.6%3.4%3.3%3.4%4.0%4.3%4.9%5.8%7.6%
2.7%3.2%4.6%3.3%2.1%2.2%1.3%1.5%1.0%1.0%0.5%0.1%0.1%0.0%--
49.3%46.7%44.6%48.2%47.3%47.6%55.6%54.9%57.2%55.9%59.0%61.8%52.1%46.2%39.6%39.4%
4.9%5.4%5.1%5.1%4.9%4.8%5.2%5.1%4.8%5.7%6.0%7.6%7.7%8.4%11.3%10.9%
4.3%4.0%3.6%3.8%4.2%4.7%5.2%5.4%4.9%5.7%4.4%4.7%3.2%2.4%5.8%4.3%
7.4%7.2%8.0%8.2%12.7%11.4%6.0%6.3%6.6%4.8%3.3%0.0%0.0%0.2%0.1%1.4%
0.7%0.6%0.7%0.7%0.8%0.7%0.7%0.7%0.5%0.5%0.5%0.4%0.8%0.2%0.2%-
0.3%0.3%0.5%0.3%0.5%0.4%0.3%0.3%0.3%0.2%0.3%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%-
0.7%0.7%0.9%0.7%0.6%0.5%0.6%0.4%0.2%0.1%0.1%0.0%0.0%0.4%--
0.5%0.5%0.5%3.6%0.9%1.0%0.4%0.4%0.2%0.1%0.0%0.0%0.0%---
 totals reverts per year
2.8 M2.7 M2.5 M2.8 M2.9 M3.1 M3.8 M4.2 M5.1 M5.0 M3.4 M973 k188 k34 k6 k421

Top Rankings

UsersContent
 Most Active Reverters  Most Reverted Editors  Most Reverted Articles  Most Reverted Other Non-Project Pages 
# Rv User/Bot # Rv User/Bot # Rv Article # RvPage
1800825ClueBot NG110774Xqbot1445Feces3173User:Presidentman/Status
670319ClueBot67065ClueBot NG1404Vagina3102Template:Did you know/Queue/Next
329782Materialscientist57089AvicBot1369Edit3090Template:Did you know/Queue/NextPrep
256018XLinkBot49760EmausBot1322Fat2505User:DeltaQuad/EmailStatus
133610Discospinster44450RussBot1309Sex2397User:ST47/status
127643AntiVandalBot35784Carlossuarez461305Idiot2290User:EdwardsBot/Status
123317Alansohn27979ClueBot1297Intellectual disability1884User:DYKUpdateBot/Errors
122195J.delanoy21827Cydebot1280America (disambiguation)1831User:DYKadminBot/count
119090VoABot II20932Cyberbot II1279Midget1528User:Bongwarrior
117861Xqbot19411XLinkBot1267Penis1527User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Electric folk task force
110317Widr18044Redirect fixer1266Defecation1469User:StatusBot/Status/ClueBot III
102656Gilliam17840ZéroBot1264Apple pie1456User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Hong Kong Transport
97699Addbot16719DarknessBot1260Editing1439User:Cyde/List of requests for help
92803MartinBot14612Invadibot1254Awesome1421User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Herbs and Spices
91698Tide rolls13270Ser Amantio di Nicolao1254Sloth1406User:Cyberbot II/Status
88597Flyer22 Reborn12324Koavf1253L1399User:Dabomb87/Status
80635Vsmith10904Materialscientist1251Grassland1359User:Ronhjones/Status
78952EmausBot10410Jaguar1250Sedimentary rock1351User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Bowling
78333Jim113810065タチコマ robot1250Cheeseburger1340User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Riverina
71152Philip Trueman9742SmackBot1246Breast1330Creator:Arts
67608The Thing That Should Not Be8603OrphanBot1246Tyler1322User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Christian Metal
67233WayKurat8474CommonsDelinker1246A1303User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Unitarian Universalism
66845Epbr1238170The Anomebot21244Igneous rock1301User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Cheeses
65840Ohnoitsjamie7958Arthur Rubin1240Gay1283User:Cyberbot I/Current AfDs
65458Binksternet7944BD24121237Testicle1277User:Paine Ellsworth/Status
63155Tawkerbot27891Luckas-bot1236Ryan1247User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/UK Trams
62396CambridgeBayWeather7751Hmains1235Structure of the Earth1231User:Jimbo Wales
61990AvicBot7665Binksternet1235Recreation1210User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Saint Pierre and Miquelon
59483Can't sleep%2C clown will eat me7579ImageRemovalBot1234Chinese people1188User:StatusBot/Status/ClueBot II
58350Oshwah7579Uncle G's major work 'bot1233Battle of Shiloh1174User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Burkina Faso
57449Excirial7412AntiVandalBot1230Intolerable Acts1173User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Muslim scholars
57346PseudoBot7110Discospinster1230Alfred Wegener1155User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Tibetan Buddhism
57261Gogo Dodo6835AvocatoBot1227Neon1115User:Jaguar/Sandbox/4
57043Pinethicket6774Ryulong1226Orange1085Template:Did you know/Queue/6
56867Cydebot6483WayKurat1225Mineral1065User:StatusBot/Status/Alison
56145Bobo1926165Tbhotch1224World1064User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Regional and national music
55392Favonian6109VolkovBot1222Civil war1062Help:Menu
54136Bongwarrior6008Addbot1219Nipple1057User:Cyberbot Trial Bot/Status
53434Mattythewhite5813VoABot II1217Metamorphic rock1054Help:Editing
50298Donner60575950.26.181.1751216Chair1053Template:X1
49431Antandrus5645Jim11381213Ape1051User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Christmas
47411Bkonrad5604Stephen1212Bomb1045User:Raghusri
47298Kuru5409Thijs!bot1210Bob1027Template:X2
46780Arthur Rubin5405TuHan-Bot1210People1027User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Vaishnavism
46364NawlinWiki5382Rich Farmbrough1210Wood1015User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Yoruba
43917Tbhotch5336Kwamikagami1207Cheese1013User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Belgrade
42789MER-C5241Alansohn1205Bean1011Template:Did you know/Queue/4
42049C.Fred5208MartinBot1205Space996Template:Did you know/Queue/2
41970Ryulong5133J.delanoy1205First Battle of Bull Run985Template:Did you know/Queue/3
41597MarnetteD5118CorenSearchBot1205Lizard984User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Football variant
Bot names are in dark red 
#Rv is revert actions, not reverted revisions (sometimes a revert action undoes several revisions).
Only reverts detected by sha1 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

Wikipedias are initially ordered by number of speakers of the language
Generated on Tuesday February 14, 2017 14:45 from recent database dump files.
Data processed up to Tuesday January 31, 2017

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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