Wikipedia Statistics - Edit and Revert Trends

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

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

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:92%, 2 edits:6%, 3 edits:1%, 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:92%, 2 edits:6%, 3 edits:1%, 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	88.1%	Reg user	5.6%	Reg user	78.2%	Self	45.6%
				Reg user	78.2%	Others	54.4%
				Anon user	11.2%
				Bot	10.6%
		Anon user	27.8%	Reg user	88.1%
				Anon user	10.7%	Self	50.5%
				Anon user	10.7%	Others	49.5%
				Bot	1.3%
		Bot	45.2%	Reg user	4.8%
				Anon user	0.3%
				Bot	94.9%	Self	24.0%
				Bot	94.9%	Others	76.0%
		Unknown	21.3%	Reg User	67.7%
				Anon User	4.1%
				Bot	28.2%
Other Non- Project Pages	11.9%	Reg user	23.8%
		Anon user	13.8%
		Bot	52.3%
		Unknown	10.0%
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	88.1%	Reg user	5.0%	Reg user	3.9%	Self	1.8%
				Reg user	3.9%	Others	2.1%
				Anon user	0.6%
				Bot	0.5%
		Anon user	24.5%	Reg user	21.6%
				Anon user	2.6%	Self	1.3%
				Anon user	2.6%	Others	1.3%
				Bot	0.3%
		Bot	39.9%	Reg user	1.9%
				Anon user	0.1%
				Bot	37.8%	Self	9.1%
				Bot	37.8%	Others	28.8%
		Unknown	18.8%	Reg User	12.7%
				Anon User	0.8%
				Bot	5.3%
Other Non- Project Pages	11.9%	Reg user	2.8%
		Anon user	1.6%
		Bot	6.2%
		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	2005	2004	2003
0.3%	0.5%	0.7%	4.7%	4.2%	0.9%	3.3%	35.3%
0.8%	1.8%	0.4%	10.0%	1.8%	0.3%	-	-
0.3%	1.1%	-	0.7%	0.2%	0.3%	4.9%	-
1.1%	0.4%	0.6%	0.4%	1.2%	-	-	-
6.9%	9.8%	10.6%	18.3%	42.5%	45.6%	36.1%	-
1.1%	0.7%	1.5%	0.2%	2.4%	1.7%	6.6%	-
-	0.4%	1.4%	2.2%	1.6%	1.8%	6.6%	5.9%
-	0.4%	0.7%	0.7%	-	-	-	-
0.8%	1.1%	0.4%	2.7%	8.2%	0.3%	-	-
-	0.1%	0.4%	-	-	-	1.6%	-
27.3%	10.4%	10.2%	9.6%	4.2%	-	1.6%	-
47.8%	43.5%	47.8%	18.9%	1.4%	5.6%	-	-
1.4%	1.3%	1.5%	11.4%	24.4%	40.8%	14.8%	5.9%
0.3%	0.1%	1.0%	0.4%	1.0%	0.6%	13.1%	5.9%
0.6%	16.6%	1.8%	2.7%	0.8%	-	-	-
0.3%	2.0%	3.5%	8.7%	2.4%	0.8%	4.9%	11.8%
0.6%	1.4%	1.4%	2.7%	1.8%	1.2%	3.3%	29.4%
8.8%	7.5%	15.6%	2.9%	0.4%	-	-	-
1.7%	1.1%	0.6%	2.9%	1.4%	0.2%	3.3%	5.9%
totals reverts per year
362	1 k	719	449	499	660	61	17

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	7.2%	Reg user	5.6%	Self	2.6%
			Reg user	5.6%	Others	3.0%
			Anon user	0.8%
			Bot	0.8%
	Anon user	35.4%	Reg user	31.2%
			Anon user	3.8%	Self	1.9%
			Anon user	3.8%	Others	1.9%
			Bot	0.5%
	Bot	57.5%	Reg user	2.7%
			Anon user	0.2%
			Bot	54.5%	Self	13.1%
			Bot	54.5%	Others	41.5%
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	2003
0.3%	0.7%	0.9%	6.8%	6.2%	1.6%	5.4%	85.7%
1.0%	2.5%	0.6%	14.7%	2.7%	0.5%	-	-
0.3%	1.5%	-	1.0%	0.3%	0.5%	8.1%	-
1.3%	0.6%	0.7%	0.7%	1.8%	-	-	-
8.0%	14.0%	14.2%	26.7%	62.7%	80.7%	59.5%	-
1.3%	1.0%	2.0%	0.3%	3.6%	2.9%	10.8%	-
-	0.6%	1.9%	3.3%	2.4%	3.2%	10.8%	14.3%
-	0.6%	0.9%	1.0%	-	-	-	-
1.0%	1.5%	0.6%	3.9%	12.1%	0.5%	-	-
-	0.1%	0.6%	-	-	-	2.7%	-
31.6%	14.8%	13.6%	14.0%	6.2%	-	2.7%	-
55.3%	62.0%	64.1%	27.7%	2.1%	9.9%	-	-
totals reverts per year
313	714	537	307	338	373	37	7

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
373	Jcb	215	Synthebot	21	Lingua arabe	11	Help:Como crear paginas
280	Synthebot	205	Xqbot	21	Lista de paises de Europa	7	Category:Catholicismo
201	Xqbot	193	24.70.95.206	17	Forma	5	User talk:Jodio
171	Dissident	136	SieBot	13	Wiki	5	Category:Politica
149	Julian Mendez	125	209.226.36.10	12	Egypto	5	User talk:Julian Mendez
133	SieBot	96	JAnDbot	12	Wikipedia	5	User talk:Hégésippe Cormier
92	JAnDbot	95	VolkovBot	11	Interlingua	4	Category:Planetas
71	Synthbot	69	Synthbot	10	Arabia Saudi	4	Talk:Pagina principal
60	VolkovBot	62	80.140.18.64	10	Lista de paises	4	Category:Physica
52	RobotJcb	59	TXiKiBoT	10	Charles Darwin	4	Category:Continente
51	TXiKiBoT	50	RobotJcb	9	Biologia	4	Category:Historia
51	Thijs!bot	48	Alexbot	9	Pagina principal	4	Template:Pecietta
46	MelancholieBot	47	Thijs!bot	9	Australia	3	Help:Validation de paginas
43	Jotterbot	43	Jotterbot	9	Lista de paises per superficie	3	Category:Usator de-N
41	Luckas-bot	38	Chobot	9	Francia	3	Category:Romania
33	Adailton	37	MelancholieBot	9	Windows 7	3	User:Synthebot/archive/messages 2008
30	Alexbot	36	W1	9	Arte	3	User:Almafeta
29	Loveless	34	Almabot	9	Foco	3	Category:Education
29	ArthurBot	34	ArthurBot	9	Albania	3	Category:Wikipedia:Eliminar
28	Ortografix	28	Julian Mendez	9	Lingua espaniol	3	Template:Infobox Country
27	McDutchie	26	MauritsBot	8	Lingua leonese	3	Category:Mathematica
27	MauritsBot	20	AlleborgoBot	8	Armenia	3	Category:Systema solar
25	AlleborgoBot	20	Escarbot	8	Jesus Christo	3	Talk:Wiki
24	Az1568	18	Loveless	8	Estonia	3	Category:Usator de
19	Almafeta	17	PipepBot	7	Regno Unite	3	Category:Usator cs
19	Escarbot	13	Ptbotgourou	7	1928	3	Portail:Actualitates
16	Jondel	12	Jasef	7	Statos Unite de America	3	User:Julian Mendez
14	Spacebirdy	12	GhalyBot	7	Slovenia	3	Category:Articulos pro revider
13	Wutsje	12	YurikBot	7	India	2	User:Synthebot/archive/messages 2009
13	SpBot	11	TinucherianBot II	7	Suissa	2	Category:Citates
13	Ptbotgourou	11	Jcb	7	Kazakhstan	2	User:Jmb
12	Jasef	11	LaaknorBot	7	San Francisco%2C California	2	Category:Georgia
11	PipepBot	11	Luckas-bot	7	Barack Obama	2	Template:Compressibile
11	YurikBot	10	80.132.33.182	7	Gela	2	Category:Usator es
11	BotMultichill	10	206.75.15.14	7	Cultura	2	MediaWiki:Sitenotice
11	SilvonenBot	9	BotMultichill	6	Mahomet	2	Help:Referentias pro apprender interlingua
11	Mithridates	9	Torrente	6	Grecia	2	Help:Contento
10	CarsracBot	8	Robbot	6	Apple Computer	2	Category:Andorra
10	Torrente	8	BenzolBot	6	Christianismo	2	Category:Meditation
9	DragonBot	8	SpBot	6	José Rizal	2	Help:Formulas TeX
9	Jorunn	7	CarsracBot	6	Chimia	2	User:Novus
9	BenzolBot	7	DragonBot	6	Capoeira	2	Category:Linguistica
8	J.delanoy	7	78.53.225.176	6	Russia	2	Category:Patronos de bandieras
8	Rubinbot	6	Nallimbot	6	Danmark	2	User:Julian Mendez/Campo de probas
7	Mike.lifeguard	6	Purbo T	6	Colombia	2	Category:Patronos
7	Isaac Mansur	5	MastiBot	6	Latvia	2	Category:Actualitates
6	Malafaya	5	151.16.74.192	5	Ku Klux Klan	2	Category:Mammales
6	Almabot	5	Jondel	5	Nove Zelanda	2	User:Julian Mendez/monobook.css
6	Ensjo	5	SilvonenBot	5	New York (citate)	2	Category:Usator fr-1
5	Architengi	5	FiriBot	5	Bergen	2	Template:Ambox
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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