Wikisource Statistics - Edit and Revert Trends

Wikisource Statistics - Edit and Revert Trends: English Wednesday June 30, 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:81%, 2 edits:11%, 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:81%, 2 edits:11%, 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	77.5%	Reg user	39.1%	Reg user	91.1%	Self	56.1%
				Reg user	91.1%	Others	43.9%
				Anon user	3.9%
				Bot	5.0%
		Anon user	45.3%	Reg user	84.5%
				Anon user	15.1%	Self	68.7%
				Anon user	15.1%	Others	31.3%
				Bot	0.5%
		Bot	5.7%	Reg user	91.4%
				Anon user	0.2%
				Bot	8.4%	Self	52.9%
				Bot	8.4%	Others	47.1%
		Unknown	9.9%	Reg User	93.3%
				Anon User	6.0%
				Bot	0.7%
Other Non- Project Pages	22.5%	Reg user	61.5%
		Anon user	17.6%
		Bot	1.9%
		Unknown	18.9%
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	77.5%	Reg user	30.3%	Reg user	27.6%	Self	15.5%
				Reg user	27.6%	Others	12.1%
				Anon user	1.2%
				Bot	1.5%
		Anon user	35.1%	Reg user	29.6%
				Anon user	5.3%	Self	3.6%
				Anon user	5.3%	Others	1.7%
				Bot	0.2%
		Bot	4.4%	Reg user	4.0%
				Anon user	0.0%
				Bot	0.4%	Self	0.2%
				Bot	0.4%	Others	0.2%
		Unknown	7.7%	Reg User	7.2%
				Anon User	0.5%
				Bot	0.1%
Other Non- Project Pages	22.5%	Reg user	13.8%
		Anon user	4.0%
		Bot	0.4%
		Unknown	4.3%
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	2003
23.3%	17.9%	16.4%	10.1%	9.7%	14.1%	12.8%	57.1%
12.6%	11.2%	13.2%	11.4%	10.7%	16.6%	6.0%	28.6%
0.7%	1.5%	1.0%	0.9%	1.5%	2.1%	1.1%	-
4.1%	0.1%	0.5%	2.6%	2.4%	-	-	-
18.8%	26.3%	33.2%	33.5%	28.4%	35.5%	63.7%	-
2.1%	3.2%	3.3%	4.4%	4.5%	6.0%	5.7%	-
0.4%	1.4%	0.8%	2.6%	2.3%	4.2%	3.6%	-
0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.3%	0.2%	-	-	-
2.1%	4.5%	4.0%	4.2%	7.1%	0.1%	-	-
-	-	-	0.0%	0.0%	-	-	-
-	0.5%	0.2%	-	0.1%	-	-	-
-	0.0%	0.5%	0.2%	-	-	-	-
10.7%	6.6%	6.0%	10.1%	4.8%	3.1%	3.2%	14.3%
0.2%	0.4%	0.4%	0.6%	0.5%	1.2%	0.7%	-
-	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	-	-	-
17.2%	17.3%	11.8%	9.7%	15.6%	12.7%	1.8%	-
3.3%	3.5%	3.7%	4.4%	6.5%	2.4%	1.1%	-
0.4%	0.5%	0.2%	0.8%	0.6%	0.2%	-	-
4.0%	4.7%	4.6%	4.0%	5.0%	1.8%	0.4%	-
totals reverts per year
3 k	4 k	5 k	4 k	2 k	1 k	281	7

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	43.4%	Reg user	39.5%	Self	22.2%
			Reg user	39.5%	Others	17.3%
			Anon user	1.7%
			Bot	2.2%
	Anon user	50.3%	Reg user	42.5%
			Anon user	7.6%	Self	5.2%
			Anon user	7.6%	Others	2.4%
			Bot	0.2%
	Bot	6.3%	Reg user	5.8%
			Anon user	0.0%
			Bot	0.5%	Self	0.3%
			Bot	0.5%	Others	0.2%
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
36.2%	26.8%	22.4%	14.3%	14.4%	18.0%	13.8%	66.7%
19.6%	16.8%	18.0%	16.2%	16.0%	21.2%	6.5%	33.3%
1.1%	2.2%	1.3%	1.3%	2.3%	2.7%	1.1%	-
6.5%	0.2%	0.6%	3.8%	3.6%	-	-	-
29.3%	39.4%	45.3%	47.6%	42.4%	45.1%	68.6%	-
3.3%	4.8%	4.4%	6.2%	6.7%	7.6%	6.1%	-
0.7%	2.1%	1.1%	3.8%	3.4%	5.3%	3.8%	-
0.1%	0.2%	0.3%	0.4%	0.2%	-	-	-
3.3%	6.8%	5.5%	6.0%	10.6%	0.1%	-	-
-	-	-	0.0%	0.1%	-	-	-
-	0.8%	0.3%	-	0.2%	-	-	-
-	0.0%	0.7%	0.3%	-	-	-	-
totals reverts per year
2 k	3 k	3 k	2 k	2 k	813	261	6

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
1263	John Vandenberg	338	Cygnis insignis	120	Constitution of the United States of America	105	:Main Page
1097	Billinghurst	240	Billinghurst	109	Industrial Society and Its Future	55	:Billinghurst
720	Zhaladshar	236	Hesperian	91	Main Page	52	:Sandbox
489	Sherurcij	206	Kathleen.wright5	81	Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom	44	:Box-header
467	Yann	202	Ineuw	67	Additional amendments to the United States Constitution	40	:Contents
423	Cygnis insignis	154	Sherurcij	49	Moral letters to Lucilius/Letter 1	34	:Userlinks
400	Pathoschild	151	Xenophon (bot)	42	United States Bill of Rights	31	:New texts
324	BirgitteSB	144	Pathosbot	42	Reconstruction Acts	30	:Sitenotice
275	Hesperian	139	SDrewthbot	40	Pyramus and Thisbe	29	:George Orwell III
251	Bookofjude	132	Xaxafrad	40	Shall Liberty or Empire Be Sought?	28	:Pathoschild/monobook.js
236	Tarmstro99	128	Pathoschild	38	Zodiac Killer letters	28	:Billinghurst
210	Eclecticology	123	24.13.224.74	32	The Highwayman (Noyes)	25	:Introduction
196	Newmanbe	121	Zhaladshar	29	United States Declaration of Independence	24	:Charles Matthews
166	Prosfilaes	119	JVbot	27	The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet	24	:Bookofjude
135	Kathleen.wright5	112	75.134.141.190	26	Barack Obama's Iraq Speech	21	:Under construction
134	ThomasV	111	Wolfman2	25	Barack Obama	19	:Droll
129	Xaxafrad	102	ThomasBot	23	The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (unsourced edition)	19	:Cygnis insignis
126	Ineuw			23	Bible (King James)/Genesis	17	:JoshLovestheRange
113	Danny			22	Edgar Allan Poe	17	:Pathoschild
				22	The Raven (Poe)	17	:Unblock
				21	Interview with Nathan Bedford Forrest	16	:Pathoschild
				20	Universal Declaration of Human Rights	15	:Bob Burkhardt
				18	Washington's Farewell Address	15	:Editing Wikisource
				17	Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi	15	:Adding texts
				16	Whiskey in the Jar	15	:TheMandarin/Sandbox
				16	William Shakespeare	15	:Tl
				15	Robert Frost	14	:Potus-eo
				15	Articles of Confederation	14	:IPVandal
				14	Sirhan Sirhan's notebook	14	:Zhaladshar
				14	Ode to the West Wind	14	:Rschen7754
				14	Bible (King James)/Psalms	13	:Hangon/doc
				14	Geneva Convention/Third Geneva Convention	12	:Hesperian/Queue
				13	A Letter From The Rocky Mountains%2C 1836 (Spalding)	12	:Process header
				13	Speech - Global Warming: a Time to Act	12	:Zhaladshar/monobook.js
				13	Journal of George Washington	12	:Works by subject
				12	God Save the Queen	12	:Cygnis insignis/monobook.js
				12	Charles Dickens	11	:Hangon
				12	1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Bunsen%2C Robert Wilhelm von	11	:Wikipedia
				11	Charter of the United Nations	11	:Sherurcij
				11	The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion	11	:Zhaladshar
				11	Death of Edgar Allan Poe	11	:Categories
				11	Les Propheties	11	:Stratford490
				10	The Tragedy of Macbeth	11	:John Vandenberg
				10	George Walker Bush	11	:Navbox/doc
				10	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	10	:Admin
				10	O Canada	10	:Quote
				10	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Chapter 5	10	:Jack Merridew/monobook.css
				10	Leo Tolstoy	10	:Wild Wolf
				10	Bible (King James)/Matthew	10	:John Vandenberg/Archive/2008-1
				9	To The Cuckoo (2)	10	:Yann
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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