Wikiquote Statistics - Edit and Revert Trends

Wikiquote Statistics - Edit and Revert Trends: German Wednesday June 30, 2010

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

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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:80%, 2 edits:12%, 3 edits:4%, 4 edits:2%, 5 edits:1%, >5 edits:2%

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:80%, 2 edits:12%, 3 edits:4%, 4 edits:2%, 5 edits:1%, >5 edits:2%

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	91.7%	Reg user	26.6%	Reg user	85.1%	Self	13.3%
				Reg user	85.1%	Others	86.7%
				Anon user	12.6%
				Bot	2.3%
		Anon user	61.5%	Reg user	84.8%
				Anon user	15.1%	Self	42.8%
				Anon user	15.1%	Others	57.2%
				Bot	0.2%
		Bot	1.2%	Reg user	79.7%
				Anon user	1.4%
				Bot	18.8%	Self	66.7%
				Bot	18.8%	Others	33.3%
		Unknown	10.6%	Reg User	90.2%
				Anon User	9.7%
				Bot	0.1%
Other Non- Project Pages	8.3%	Reg user	32.1%
		Anon user	37.5%
		Bot	2.2%
		Unknown	28.2%
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	91.7%	Reg user	24.4%	Reg user	20.8%	Self	2.8%
				Reg user	20.8%	Others	18.0%
				Anon user	3.1%
				Bot	0.6%
		Anon user	56.4%	Reg user	47.8%
				Anon user	8.5%	Self	3.6%
				Anon user	8.5%	Others	4.9%
				Bot	0.1%
		Bot	1.1%	Reg user	0.9%
				Anon user	0.0%
				Bot	0.2%	Self	0.1%
				Bot	0.2%	Others	0.1%
		Unknown	9.7%	Reg User	8.8%
				Anon User	0.9%
				Bot	0.0%
Other Non- Project Pages	8.3%	Reg user	2.7%
		Anon user	3.1%
		Bot	0.2%
		Unknown	2.3%
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
1.6%	0.7%	2.6%	2.5%	2.7%	5.4%	16.4%
24.2%	14.4%	23.2%	22.8%	9.2%	18.8%	8.8%
1.8%	4.1%	3.9%	3.0%	3.0%	1.5%	0.4%
0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	1.1%	1.2%	-	-
50.6%	51.9%	39.6%	36.1%	61.7%	51.9%	31.0%
4.2%	3.3%	2.6%	2.9%	4.6%	5.3%	4.9%
0.7%	8.0%	8.0%	5.4%	2.4%	1.8%	1.3%
-	-	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	-	-
0.8%	-	0.0%	0.4%	3.0%	-	-
0.1%	-	0.0%	0.0%	-	-	-
-	0.1%	0.1%	0.5%	-	0.1%	-
0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	-	-
6.5%	10.3%	12.3%	12.2%	3.3%	6.0%	14.6%
0.7%	0.8%	1.1%	0.7%	1.0%	1.1%	1.3%
-	0.0%	-	-	-	-	-
2.8%	2.3%	2.4%	3.6%	2.1%	2.3%	10.2%
3.3%	2.7%	1.7%	3.5%	3.6%	4.3%	9.3%
-	0.0%	-	0.7%	0.2%	-	-
2.3%	1.0%	2.6%	4.3%	1.7%	1.4%	1.8%
totals reverts per year
1 k	2 k	5 k	4 k	5 k	2 k	226

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	29.8%	Reg user	25.3%	Self	3.4%
			Reg user	25.3%	Others	22.0%
			Anon user	3.7%
			Bot	0.7%
	Anon user	68.9%	Reg user	58.4%
			Anon user	10.4%	Self	4.4%
			Anon user	10.4%	Others	5.9%
			Bot	0.1%
	Bot	1.4%	Reg user	1.1%
			Anon user	0.0%
			Bot	0.3%	Self	0.2%
			Bot	0.3%	Others	0.1%
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
1.9%	0.8%	3.2%	3.4%	3.0%	6.4%	26.1%
28.7%	17.4%	28.9%	30.4%	10.5%	22.2%	14.1%
2.1%	5.0%	4.8%	3.9%	3.4%	1.7%	0.7%
0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	1.5%	1.3%	-	-
60.0%	62.7%	49.5%	48.1%	70.0%	61.2%	49.3%
5.0%	4.0%	3.2%	3.8%	5.2%	6.2%	7.7%
0.8%	9.7%	10.0%	7.2%	2.8%	2.2%	2.1%
-	-	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	-	-
0.9%	-	0.1%	0.6%	3.4%	-	-
0.1%	-	0.0%	0.0%	-	-	-
-	0.1%	0.1%	0.7%	-	0.1%	-
0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	-	-
totals reverts per year
1 k	2 k	4 k	3 k	4 k	2 k	142

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
3259	Thomas	610	Toledo	235	Deutsche Sprichwörter	50	Template:Zitat des Tages
1639	Toledo	342	Biblelover	114	Liebe	32	Template:Neue Seiten
1471	Biblelover	306	Thomas	95	Zungenbrecher	31	Talk:Hauptseite
1161	Stepro	237	Bingobongo	89	Werbesprüche	26	Template:Sprichwörter
1121	Paulis	236	Ingrid	83	Angela Merkel	26	Template:Zitat des Tages/Archiv
816	WIKImaniac	173	Ahmadi	81	Schüttelreime	25	:Wikiquote
548	Hei ber	169	GuteMiiene	73	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	23	Template:Test
348	Histo	147	T-bot	70	Adolf Hitler	22	Template:Person
321	GuteMiiene	131	WIKImaniac	69	Leben	17	Template:Film-Zitate
268	Trublu	98	Wst	67	Gott	16	User talk:Toledo
252	Hubert22	98	Paulis	59	George W. Bush	16	Category:Film-Zitate
123	Timt	83	Stepro	55	Dummheit	15	:Film-Zitate
110	T-bot	74	Hei ber	52	Krieg	13	User:Toledo
98	Wutsje	62	Franz Kappes	52	Frauen	13	User talk:Histo
94	Commander Bond	55	Histo	49	Englische Sprichwörter	12	Template:Aktuelle Ereignisse
81	Bingobongo	54	Hubert22	49	Idee	12	User talk:Thomas
79	Kapuzinerkresse	48	84.113.52.244	49	Sexualität	12	User talk:Biblelover
70	Tets	41	89.51.152.247	48	Karl Marx	11	User talk:WIKImaniac
65	Millbart	39	Hans Dunkelberg	45	Computer	11	Template:Thema
60	Barplixs	35	88.67.42.126	44	Alkohol	10	Category:Person
58	Ahmadi	34	Trublu	43	Letzte Worte	10	Category:US-Amerikaner
55	217.7.220.106	30	89.51.130.252	42	Marihuana	9	Talk:Adolf Hitler
51	Ingrid	30	Barplixs	41	Freiheit	9	User talk:Ahmadi
39	Robertsan	30	Heizo	41	Friedrich Schiller	9	Talk:Klaus Wowereit
32	Sukarnobhumibol	30	87.139.37.231	39	Religion	8	Template:Wikipedia
27	ChtitBot	28	217.254.48.207	39	Josef Stalin	7	Help:Erste Schritte
27	Az1568	27	Zwikki	39	Stadt	7	MediaWiki:Sitenotice
27	Franz Kappes	27	Sie sind nun abgemeldet.	38	Martin Luther	7	User:Pfaffenbauer
24	Saemundur	26	Sukarnobhumibol	38	Mohammed	7	User talk:Sukarnobhumibol
23	Steffen Löwe Gera	26	Timt	37	Zeit	7	Help:Neue Seite anlegen
20	Guillom	26	Nicor	36	Bauernweisheiten	6	Talk:Deutsche Sprichwörter
18	Plauz	25	80.145.93.191	35	Glück	6	Talk:Willy Brandt
18	Wst	24	Steffiwaits	35	Geld	6	User talk:GuteMiiene/Kommunikation
17	Hans Dunkelberg	22	ChtitBot	34	Albert Einstein	6	Template:Personendaten
17	88.67.42.126	22	Kapuzinerkresse	34	Gerhard Schröder	6	User talk:Hei ber/Archiv100
15	195.93.60.73	22	195.93.60.68	33	Tod	6	User:Thomas
15	FrobenChristoph	22	84.177.245.106	33	Mensch	5	Template:Spielwiese
14	Heizo	21	Ficki	33	Fußball	5	Talk:Winston Churchill
12	Marga	21	195.93.60.98	32	Oskar Lafontaine	5	User:WIKImaniac
12	Vom Bordstein bis zur Skyline	21	89.51.153.135	32	Napoléon Bonaparte	5	User:Tscharlie
12	Neil Carter	19	217.184.47.207	32	Islam	5	Template:Artikel des Monats
12	195.93.60.137	19	Tets	32	Lateinische Sprichwörter	5	Talk:Dieter Bohlen
11	195.93.60.68	18	195.93.60.35	31	Bier	5	Template:ABC
11	195.93.60.9	18	89.51.130.234	31	Deutschland	4	Talk:Islam
11	195.93.60.98	17	Um sich bei Wikiquote anmelden zu können%2C müssen Cookies	31	Hoffnung	4	Talk:Freiheit
11	195.93.60.37	17	195.93.60.102	31	Welt	4	User talk:Trublu
11	Historiograf	17	195.93.60.73	31	Wissen	4	User:Hei ber
11	195.93.60.35	17	217.184.46.123	30	Bill Kaulitz	4	User:GuteMiiene
10	DerHexer	16	Satsuma	29	Friedrich Nietzsche	4	Talk:Albert Einstein
10	195.93.60.4	16	195.93.60.74	28	Rauchen	4	Talk:Mohammed
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 Saturday July 31, 2010 from recent database dump files.
Data processed up to Wednesday June 30, 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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