Wikipedia Statistics - Edit and Revert Trends

Wikipedia Statistics - Edit and Revert Trends: Ligurian 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:8%, 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:90%, 2 edits:8%, 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	91.8%	Reg user	4.9%	Reg user	66.7%	Self	70.8%
				Reg user	66.7%	Others	29.2%
				Anon user	30.6%
				Bot	2.8%
		Anon user	6.1%	Reg user	71.1%
				Anon user	22.2%	Self	80.0%
				Anon user	22.2%	Others	20.0%
				Bot	6.7%
		Bot	88.1%	Reg user	0.5%
				Anon user	0.2%
				Bot	99.4%	Self	29.4%
				Bot	99.4%	Others	70.6%
		Unknown	0.9%	Reg User	57.1%
				Anon User	0.0%
				Bot	42.9%
Other Non- Project Pages	8.2%	Reg user	36.4%
		Anon user	24.2%
		Bot	30.3%
		Unknown	9.1%
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	91.8%	Reg user	4.5%	Reg user	3.0%	Self	2.1%
				Reg user	3.0%	Others	0.9%
				Anon user	1.4%
				Bot	0.1%
		Anon user	5.6%	Reg user	4.0%
				Anon user	1.2%	Self	1.0%
				Anon user	1.2%	Others	0.2%
				Bot	0.4%
		Bot	80.8%	Reg user	0.4%
				Anon user	0.1%
				Bot	80.3%	Self	23.6%
				Bot	80.3%	Others	56.7%
		Unknown	0.9%	Reg User	0.5%
				Anon User	0.0%
				Bot	0.4%
Other Non- Project Pages	8.2%	Reg user	3.0%
		Anon user	2.0%
		Bot	2.5%
		Unknown	0.7%
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
0.4%	1.8%	1.3%	3.5%	31.6%
-	2.6%	-	-	-
0.4%	-	6.3%	-	-
0.4%	-	-	-	-
3.4%	4.0%	0.6%	7.0%	26.3%
0.8%	0.7%	0.6%	1.2%	10.5%
-	0.4%	0.6%	-	-
0.4%	0.7%	-	-	-
0.4%	0.4%	0.6%	-	-
-	-	-	1.2%	-
30.8%	18.2%	21.4%	27.9%	-
56.8%	67.9%	57.2%	32.6%	-
-	-	0.6%	3.5%	-
-	-	-	-	-
-	-	0.6%	2.3%	-
0.8%	0.7%	5.7%	9.3%	15.8%
0.4%	0.4%	2.5%	8.1%	15.8%
4.9%	1.5%	1.9%	-	-
0.4%	0.7%	-	3.5%	-
totals reverts per year
266	274	159	86	19

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	4.9%	Reg user	3.3%	Self	2.3%
			Reg user	3.3%	Others	1.0%
			Anon user	1.5%
			Bot	0.1%
	Anon user	6.2%	Reg user	4.4%
			Anon user	1.4%	Self	1.1%
			Anon user	1.4%	Others	0.3%
			Bot	0.4%
	Bot	88.9%	Reg user	0.4%
			Anon user	0.1%
			Bot	88.4%	Self	26.0%
			Bot	88.4%	Others	62.4%
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
0.4%	1.9%	1.4%	4.8%	46.2%
-	2.6%	-	-	-
0.4%	-	7.1%	-	-
0.4%	-	-	-	-
3.6%	4.2%	0.7%	9.5%	38.5%
0.8%	0.8%	0.7%	1.6%	15.4%
-	0.4%	0.7%	-	-
0.4%	0.8%	-	-	-
0.4%	0.4%	0.7%	-	-
-	-	-	1.6%	-
32.9%	18.9%	24.1%	38.1%	-
60.6%	70.2%	64.5%	44.4%	-
totals reverts per year
249	265	141	63	13

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
114	SieBot	133	Xqbot	10	Àrabia Saudïa	5	Category:Candidates for speedy deletion
113	Xqbot	109	SieBot	9	Lengoa leonesa	3	User:ReyBrujo/Dumps/20070213/Sites linked more than 1 times
82	ArthurBot	65	JAnDbot	8	Australia	3	Talk:Pagina prinçipâ
78	JAnDbot	65	ArthurBot	7	Vëa Gexa de Gesû	2	Category:Lettiatuâ
47	TXiKiBoT	51	TXiKiBoT	7	Charles Darwin	2	Category:Africa
30	VolkovBot	35	VolkovBot	7	Svissëa	2	Category:Ruscia
25	Luckas-bot	19	Almabot	7	Estònia	2	Category:Comuni da Region Liguria
15	Synthebot	15	Dinamik-bot	6	Egitto	2	Template:Navbox generic
15	AlleborgoBot	13	AlleborgoBot	6	Albania	2	Category:Politica
12	Thijs!bot	12	Synthebot	6	Slovenia	1	Category:Astronomia
9	LaaknorBot	11	MelancholieBot	6	The Simpsons	1	Template:Competizione sportiva
9	Ptbotgourou	10	Escarbot	5	Euròpa	1	Category talk:OliverZena
9	91.117.112.63	9	Pellicano	5	Danemarca	1	Category:Internet
8	PipepBot	8	LaaknorBot	5	Stati Unïi d'America	1	MediaWiki:Nstab-user
8	Alexbot	8	PipepBot	5	Belgiò	1	Category:Filosofia
7	Dario vet	8	Thijs!bot	5	Mauritania	1	Template:Mappa di localizzazione
7	CommonsDelinker	8	Luckas-bot	5	Greçia	1	User:Yegoyan
6	Wutsje	7	TechBot	5	Colombia	1	Category:Uruguay
6	JhsBot	7	Jotterbot	4	Ruscia	1	MediaWiki:Recentchanges-url
6	HerculeBot	7	CommonsDelinker	4	Fransa	1	Category:Americhe
6	CarsracBot	6	Alexbot	4	Copernicio	1	User:Thorin III
6	SpBot	5	BotMultichill	4	Crestianeximo	1	Template:Mappa di localizzazione/GRE
6	Mareb	5	Mareb	4	Nepal	1	Category:Cile
5	Rubinbot	5	Ptbotgourou	4	Londra	1	Category:Mëxinn-a
5	MelancholieBot	4	Rubinbot	4	India	1	Template:Comune
5	TechBot	4	Karkeixa	4	Lengua swaïli	1	Category:Fixica
5	Escarbot	4	D'ohBot	4	Lettònia	1	Category:Asia
5	Dedee	4	Robbot	3	Lengua àraba	1	Template:Stato
5	Jotterbot	3	Purbo T	3	Zena (Genoa cfc)	1	Template:Icona Ballon
4	BotMultichill	3	JhsBot	3	Azerbaijan	1	Category:Lengua zeneise
4	Robbot	3	CarsracBot	3	Còsta d'Avòïo	1	User:Penarc
3	Karkeixa	3	Dedee	3	Melilla	1	Template:Box titolo
3	D'ohBot	2	Obersachsebot	3	Malaysia	1	User:Dario vet/archivio
3	SilvonenBot	2	EmausBot	3	Giappon	1	Category:Lettiatùa
3	Jorunn	2	Dario vet	3	Pagina prinçipâ	1	MediaWiki:Allinnamespace
3	Dragonòt	2	DSisyphBot	3	Suriname	1	Category:Svissëa
2	Obersachsebot	2	ZeneizeForesto	3	Armenia	1	Category:Stöia
2	Louperibot	2	DragonBot	3	Italia	1	Category:User pt
2	Purbo T	2	SassoBot	3	Çipro	1	Template:Stub
2	Stywerdoff	2	SilvonenBot	3	Angòla	1	User:Franco Bampi
2	ZeneizeForesto	2	190.173.93.98	3	Sudafrica	1	Template:Geobox superficie
2	Incansable	2	Gerakibot	3	Isræ	1	Template:Città
2	Almabot	1	86.156.199.18	3	Georg Friedrich Händel	1	User:Z thomas
2	Carsrac	1	Dorsett	3	Emilia-Romagna	1	User:Dragonòt
2	Darkicebot	1	62.98.180.142	3	Tiblisi	1	Category:Poexia
2	Mercy	1	Merlissimo	3	Maçedònia	1	Template:Anno
1	83.224.187.69	1	217.56.238.46	3	Aconcagua
1	.snoopy.	1	204.112.243.21	3	Brasî
1	Merlissimo	1	83.184.140.133	3	Isoe Azöe
1	Feffo	1	130.251.108.3	3	Neuva York (çittæ)
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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