Wikipedia Statistics - Edit and Revert Trends

Wikipedia Statistics - Edit and Revert Trends: Hawai'ian 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:5%, 3 edits:3%, 4 edits:0%, 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:5%, 3 edits:3%, 4 edits:0%, 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	80.3%	Reg user	24.9%	Reg user	94.9%	Self	21.5%
				Reg user	94.9%	Others	78.5%
				Anon user	1.5%
				Bot	3.6%
		Anon user	16.2%	Reg user	76.4%
				Anon user	21.3%	Self	31.6%
				Anon user	21.3%	Others	68.4%
				Bot	2.2%
		Bot	56.7%	Reg user	1.9%
				Anon user	0.0%
				Bot	98.1%	Self	21.2%
				Bot	98.1%	Others	78.8%
		Unknown	2.2%	Reg User	66.7%
				Anon User	25.0%
				Bot	8.3%
Other Non- Project Pages	19.7%	Reg user	62.2%
		Anon user	17.0%
		Bot	8.1%
		Unknown	12.6%
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	80.3%	Reg user	20.0%	Reg user	19.0%	Self	4.1%
				Reg user	19.0%	Others	14.9%
				Anon user	0.3%
				Bot	0.7%
		Anon user	13.0%	Reg user	9.9%
				Anon user	2.8%	Self	0.9%
				Anon user	2.8%	Others	1.9%
				Bot	0.3%
		Bot	45.5%	Reg user	0.9%
				Anon user	0.0%
				Bot	44.7%	Self	9.5%
				Bot	44.7%	Others	35.2%
		Unknown	1.8%	Reg User	1.2%
				Anon User	0.4%
				Bot	0.1%
Other Non- Project Pages	19.7%	Reg user	12.3%
		Anon user	3.4%
		Bot	1.6%
		Unknown	2.5%
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
-	3.8%	6.7%	5.9%	6.1%	-	-
12.2%	1.6%	-	27.2%	53.1%	-	-
0.7%	-	-	0.5%	-	-	-
0.7%	-	-	2.0%	-	-	-
4.8%	4.8%	34.8%	8.4%	8.2%	-	-
-	1.6%	-	0.5%	2.0%	-	100.0%
-	0.5%	-	1.5%	12.2%	27.3%	-
-	-	1.1%	0.5%	-	-	-
0.7%	0.5%	-	2.0%	-	-	-
-	-	-	-	-	-	-
20.4%	12.4%	9.0%	2.0%	-	-	-
52.4%	68.3%	33.7%	3.5%	-	-	-
-	-	-	3.5%	2.0%	-	-
0.7%	-	-	-	4.1%	-	-
-	0.5%	-	-	-	-	-
0.7%	1.1%	9.0%	35.1%	4.1%	-	-
-	3.8%	1.1%	3.0%	8.2%	45.5%	-
6.1%	-	-	-	-	18.2%	-
0.7%	1.1%	4.5%	4.5%	-	9.1%	-
totals reverts per year
147	186	89	202	49	11	1

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	25.5%	Reg user	24.2%	Self	5.2%
			Reg user	24.2%	Others	19.0%
			Anon user	0.4%
			Bot	0.9%
	Anon user	16.5%	Reg user	12.6%
			Anon user	3.5%	Self	1.1%
			Anon user	3.5%	Others	2.4%
			Bot	0.4%
	Bot	58.0%	Reg user	1.1%
			Anon user	0.0%
			Bot	56.9%	Self	12.1%
			Bot	56.9%	Others	44.8%
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	2005	2004
-	4.0%	7.9%	11.0%	7.5%	-	-
13.3%	1.7%	-	50.5%	65.0%	-	-
0.7%	-	-	0.9%	-	-	-
0.7%	-	-	3.7%	-	-	-
5.2%	5.2%	40.8%	15.6%	10.0%	-	-
-	1.7%	-	0.9%	2.5%	-	100.0%
-	0.6%	-	2.8%	15.0%	100.0%	-
-	-	1.3%	0.9%	-	-	-
0.7%	0.6%	-	3.7%	-	-	-
-	-	-	-	-	-	-
22.2%	13.2%	10.5%	3.7%	-	-	-
57.0%	73.0%	39.5%	6.4%	-	-	-
totals reverts per year
135	174	76	109	40	3	1

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
73	Xqbot	85	Xqbot	19	Teletubbies	7	Talk:Ka papa kinohi
53	Az1568	52	WIC	15	Ka papa kinohi	5	Template:WikipediaTOC
46	SieBot	44	SieBot	13	Saudi ʻAlapia	5	Category:Candidates for speedy deletion
35	TXiKiBoT	30	JAnDbot	11	‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i	4	User:Mustafaa
30	JAnDbot	23	Synthebot	9	Ka Ho‘omana Iesū ‘Oia‘i‘o	3	Category:Solowakia
20	Synthebot	19	TXiKiBoT	8	Kapalakiko	3	Talk:El Bodón
20	ArthurBot	17	71.97.74.78	8	‘Amelika Hui Pū ‘ia	3	User talk:Node ue
19	VolkovBot	17	DagobyteLeviathan	8	‘Aukekulelia	3	User:Kamehameha
18	Jon Harald Søby	15	ArthurBot	8	Hawaiʻi	3	User talk:Singularity
17	Spacebirdy	13	Singularity	7	Pinilana	3	User:Singularity
15	Singularity	12	VolkovBot	7	ʻEsetonia	2	Template:WikipediaLang
12	Jose77	12	210.8.54.97	7	Kanakā	2	Talk:Hawaiʻi
12	Nakon	11	Kamehameha	6	Lākana	2	Template:Kaumoku‘āina
11	Kamehameha	10	CarsracBot	6	‘Eulopa	2	Talk:Hoʻomana Mohameka
10	Husond	9	Twilek	6	‘Ōlelo Sāmoa	1	User:Andre Engels
8	Kalathalan	8	MelancholieBot	6	ʻAlepania	1	User:RCBot
5	Escarbot	6	Loveless	6	Solowenia	1	User talk:Synthebot
4	Wutsje	4	Obersachsebot	6	Abejar	1	User:Btw
4	Bsadowski1	4	Dinamik-bot	6	Barack Obama	1	User:Davidcannon
4	Almabot	4	Mascot Guy	6	‘Aikupika	1	Talk:Litvanya
4	SpBot	4	Jotterbot	6	ʻĪkālia	1	User:Krun
4	Alexbot	4	SilvonenBot	5	‘Āmēnia	1	User:Quastr
4	Dferg	4	Ptbotgourou	5	‘Amelika Hema	1	User:HaoleCaesarion
3	Rubinbot	3	DragonBot	5	‘Ōlelo Pelekania	1	User:Wonderfool
3	Loveless	3	Kungfuadam	5	ʻInia	1	Talk:Ka Ho‘omana Iesū ‘Oia‘i‘o
3	D'ohBot	3	64.26.117.250	5	Kemika	1	User:ThT
3	Tauleonui	3	AlleborgoBot	5	Ioredāne	1	File:HIMap-doton-Kahului.PNG
3	BotMultichill	3	Tauleonui	5	Mohameka	1	File:250px-HonoluluHILM.gif
3	HerculeBot	3	Brenda "Tiberius" Xiong Hmong	5	‘Alekelia	1	Talk:Aotearoa
3	Jotterbot	2	DSisyphBot	4	Mekiko	1	User:Sirius Zwarts Bot
3	TinucherianBot II	2	Alexbot	4	Meka	1	User:Gangleri
3	Magister Mathematicae	2	216.185.29.69	4	Helene	1	User:Zigger
2	LaaknorBot	2	62.132.202.3	4	Aotearoa	1	User:George McFinnigan
2	.snoopy.	2	Rubinbot	4	‘Ōlelo ‘Alapia	1	User:TXiKiBoT
2	Purbo T	2	Purbo T	4	Kōlea ʻĀkau	1	Talk:‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i
2	MelancholieBot	2	216.185.29.68	4	Qin Shi Huang	1	User:Koavf
2	JhsBot	2	BotMultichill	4	Lituania	1	MediaWiki:Accountcreated
2	Mascot Guy	2	Almabot	3	‘Ōlelo Sepania	1	User:Korg
2	Hosiryuhosi	2	Luckas-bot	3	Kilo hōkū	1	User:Dittaeva
2	CarsracBot	2	217.225.73.133	3	Palani	1	Talk:ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi
2	83.83.81.184	2	AlnoktaBOT	3	Kaiapuni	1	User:GilliamJF
2	Luckas-bot	2	Kalathalan	3	Noloweke	1	User:Keakealani
2	217.225.73.133	1	218.114.4.130	3	Kuikilani	1	User:Hercule
2	AlnoktaBOT	1	130.88.225.78	3	Hoʻomana Mohameka	1	User:Kamehameha/León
2	Ptbotgourou	1	Web's Tale	3	Hōʻole Akua	1	File:Algeria flag large.png
2	AlleborgoBot	1	68.6.156.38	3	Nepala	1	User:Incelemeelemani
2	84.64.127.168	1	85.54.131.142	3	Makemakika	1	User:Tiyorinho
2	Gerakibot	1	78.150.20.245	3	Ki‘i ‘oni‘oni	1	Talk:‘Ulu
1	72.139.97.176	1	64.81.54.23	3	2005	1	Category:User en
1	85.54.131.142	1	213.244.10.184	3	2007	1	User:Ev
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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