Wikiquote Statistics - Edit and Revert Trends: English

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   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 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:77%, 2 edits:11%, 3 edits:5%, 4 edits:2%, 5 edits:1%, >5 edits:4%

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   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:77%, 2 edits:11%, 3 edits:5%, 4 edits:2%, 5 edits:1%, >5 edits:4%

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
Articles86.7%Reg user20.4%Reg user85.1%Self16.6%
Others83.4%
Anon user13.3%
Bot1.5%
Anon user70.1%Reg user72.0%
Anon user27.9%Self55.3%
Others44.7%
Bot0.1%
Bot1.5%Reg user50.5%
Anon user1.0%
Bot48.5%Self17.7%
Others82.3%
Unknown7.9%Reg User72.8%
Anon User27.0%
Bot0.2%
Other
Non-
Project
Pages		13.3%Reg user43.9%
Anon user29.6%
Bot0.9%
Unknown25.5%
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 editorRevert bySelf revert
Articles86.7%Reg user17.7%Reg user15.1%Self2.5%
Others12.6%
Anon user2.4%
Bot0.3%
Anon user60.8%Reg user43.8%
Anon user16.9%Self9.4%
Others7.6%
Bot0.1%
Bot1.3%Reg user0.7%
Anon user0.0%
Bot0.6%Self0.1%
Others0.5%
Unknown6.9%Reg User5.0%
Anon User1.9%
Bot0.0%
Other
Non-
Project
Pages		13.3%Reg user5.8%
Anon user3.9%
Bot0.1%
Unknown3.4%
Unknown = comments mentions (partial) revert, but no md5 match
Reg = registered, Anon = anonymous
  
 Distribution of reverts, per year and type
20102009200820072006200520042003
1.8%2.1%3.0%2.7%2.7%2.4%3.3%17.9%
14.7%22.1%10.7%9.3%8.6%6.0%1.4%10.7%
3.4%2.6%2.2%2.1%1.7%2.5%2.1%-
2.1%0.1%0.0%0.0%----
44.2%44.8%43.0%41.3%45.0%45.0%52.9%21.4%
5.8%5.8%8.7%10.5%13.7%13.7%13.8%7.1%
4.7%4.8%10.2%8.1%8.5%9.0%9.8%10.7%
0.0%0.0%0.1%0.1%0.0%---
2.2%0.1%0.1%1.7%0.0%---
0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%----
0.5%0.1%-0.2%-0.0%--
3.9%0.1%0.2%0.1%----
3.3%4.9%5.5%6.7%3.6%4.9%5.3%7.1%
1.4%1.3%2.9%2.0%1.7%1.5%1.5%7.1%
-0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%---
4.8%5.5%6.7%7.5%4.3%5.3%2.1%3.6%
3.7%2.7%4.0%3.6%5.0%6.0%4.8%10.7%
1.0%0.0%0.0%-0.0%0.0%--
2.3%3.0%2.7%4.0%5.0%3.5%3.0%3.6%
 totals reverts per year
5 k10 k9 k9 k7 k4 k66528
   

 Distribution of reverts, like table above, but percentages are share
 of md5 detected reverts only, for article namespace only
Namespace(s)Reverted editorRevert bySelf revert
 Reg user22.2%Reg user18.9%Self3.1%
Others15.8%
Anon user3.0%
Bot0.3%
Anon user76.2%Reg user54.9%
Anon user21.2%Self11.7%
Others9.5%
Bot0.1%
Bot1.6%Reg user0.8%
Anon user0.0%
Bot0.8%Self0.1%
Others0.7%
Reg = registered, Anon = anonymous
  

 Distribution of reverts, like table above, but percentages are
 share of md5 detected reverts only, for article namespace only
20102009200820072006200520042003
2.1%2.5%3.8%3.5%3.3%3.0%4.0%26.3%
17.6%26.8%13.7%12.3%10.7%7.6%1.6%15.8%
4.1%3.2%2.8%2.8%2.2%3.2%2.5%-
2.5%0.1%0.0%0.1%----
53.0%54.3%54.9%54.2%56.0%57.2%63.5%31.6%
7.0%7.0%11.2%13.8%17.1%17.4%16.6%10.5%
5.7%5.8%13.1%10.6%10.6%11.5%11.7%15.8%
0.0%0.0%0.1%0.2%0.0%---
2.7%0.1%0.1%2.2%0.0%---
0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%----
0.6%0.1%-0.2%-0.0%--
4.7%0.1%0.3%0.1%----
 totals reverts per year
4 k8 k7 k7 k6 k3 k55419

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
5093Kalki323Zarbon330Mitch Hedberg169User talk:Kalki
3961InvisibleSun294Kalki315George W. Bush137Talk:Main Page
3118UDScott242UDScott284Barney & Friends118User talk:Jeffq
2395Ningauble179Pipedreamergrey223Anonymous85Talk:Main Page/Archives/002
928LrdChaos173ChtitBot221Albert Einstein56User talk:UDScott
919Jeffq155Ningauble204Rush Limbaugh52Talk:Abortion/Archives/03
532MosheZadka135Cirt198Martin Luther King%2C Jr.49Help:Contents
491Zarbon131Laughing guy191List of people by name46User:UDScott
388WikiLubber116EleferenBot175Benjamin Franklin45User:Jeffq
337BD2412113InvisibleSun164Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi42User:InvisibleSun
318Aphaia112Jack Merridew returns161Love41User talk:LrdChaos
292Cirt102VolkovBot156Carmen Sandiego38User talk:Aphaia/Archive02
278Eaglestorm 154Advertising slogans38Help:Starting a new page
271Sketchmoose 153Futurama37User talk:InvisibleSun
251EVula 145English proverbs36User talk:69.64.213.146
203Iddo999 142List of films32User talk:Sceptre
196Herbythyme 141Patrick Henry28User talk:Fys
174VolkovBot 138Muhammad28User talk:MosheZadka
161Lightning 132William Shakespeare28User talk:Ningauble
151Fys 125Winston Churchill24User talk:Zarbon
147Jni 120Abraham Lincoln23User talk:Arbok
116Cato 116Main Page21User talk:Aphaia
113Arbok 113Animal Farm20Template:Wikipedia
112AnankeBot 110Sex20User:Ningauble
102Greyed 107List of television shows19User talk:Quillercouch
  107Jesus19User talk:Joe @Wikiquote44.com
  103George Washington19Category:Proverbs
  101Naruto19User:LrdChaos
  94Abortion19Category:Themes
  92Last words18User talk:Aphaia/Archive03
  90Portal (game)17User talk:Johney
  84Star Wars17User:MosheZadka
  82John F. Kennedy17User:Sceptre
  82Fahrenheit 45116User talk:EVula
  78Aristotle16User talk:Cbrown1023
  78Dragon Ball Z16Talk:Bambi
  77Muhammad Ali16User talk:BD2412
  77Bill Gates16User:Cirt
  74Hamlet16Talk:Albert Einstein
  72Helen Keller15Talk:Cosmotheism
  71Michael Jackson15User talk:Catamorphism
  71Isaac Newton15User:Aphaia
  71God14User talk:Yehudi
  69Vladimir Lenin14User talk:Tiptoety
  69Grey's Anatomy14User talk:Cirt
  69Fight Club (film)14User:Zarbon
  68Friends (TV series)13User talk:76.247.222.101
  67Family Guy13User talk:Ole.Holm
  67How I Met Your Mother12Help:Editing
  66Adolf Hitler12User:Alison
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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