Wiktionary Statistics - Edit and Revert Trends: English

Wednesday June 30, 2010
     
 
Edit history charts for top 50 Wiktionaries / ... for all Wiktionaries / Edit and revert counts for all Wiktionaries

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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:82%, 2 edits:11%, 3 edits:4%, 4 edits:1%, 5 edits:1%, >5 edits:1%

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:82%, 2 edits:11%, 3 edits:4%, 4 edits:1%, 5 edits:1%, >5 edits:1%

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
Articles87.7%Reg user19.4%Reg user87.9%Self28.2%
Others71.8%
Anon user6.6%
Bot5.5%
Anon user63.6%Reg user91.2%
Anon user8.2%Self77.4%
Others22.6%
Bot0.6%
Bot12.4%Reg user11.4%
Anon user0.4%
Bot88.2%Self88.1%
Others11.9%
Unknown4.6%Reg User83.1%
Anon User8.2%
Bot8.7%
Other
Non-
Project
Pages		12.3%Reg user51.9%
Anon user32.9%
Bot2.4%
Unknown12.8%
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
Articles87.7%Reg user17.0%Reg user15.0%Self4.2%
Others10.7%
Anon user1.1%
Bot0.9%
Anon user55.8%Reg user50.9%
Anon user4.6%Self3.5%
Others1.0%
Bot0.3%
Bot10.9%Reg user1.2%
Anon user0.0%
Bot9.6%Self8.4%
Others1.1%
Unknown4.1%Reg User3.4%
Anon User0.3%
Bot0.4%
Other
Non-
Project
Pages		12.3%Reg user6.4%
Anon user4.0%
Bot0.3%
Unknown1.6%
Unknown = comments mentions (partial) revert, but no md5 match
Reg = registered, Anon = anonymous
  
 Distribution of reverts, per year and type
201020092008200720062005200420032002
5.3%4.6%3.4%4.6%3.2%5.1%5.5%24.9%33.3%
11.4%10.1%9.9%9.9%12.0%15.4%5.9%4.4%-
1.1%1.0%1.3%1.0%1.0%1.5%3.0%1.7%-
0.7%1.0%0.5%2.0%0.7%0.3%---
55.2%53.5%55.5%54.1%42.1%32.1%31.6%9.9%-
3.0%3.2%3.2%4.1%3.5%4.9%9.5%13.8%16.7%
0.7%0.8%0.8%1.0%1.0%2.6%9.6%2.2%-
0.1%0.4%0.2%0.3%0.5%0.2%---
1.1%1.1%0.9%2.0%1.2%0.8%0.1%--
0.0%0.1%0.0%0.0%0.0%----
5.2%8.8%10.1%4.4%13.4%6.6%---
0.7%1.3%1.3%1.7%0.5%1.2%---
3.7%2.9%2.6%3.5%4.1%4.8%7.3%11.6%16.7%
0.3%0.3%0.4%0.3%0.3%0.3%1.1%2.2%-
0.7%0.7%0.1%0.3%0.2%----
6.5%6.0%5.2%5.2%7.2%13.5%10.2%15.5%33.3%
2.5%2.6%3.3%3.6%6.6%8.5%13.0%8.3%-
0.5%0.4%0.0%0.4%0.3%0.0%0.1%--
1.1%1.3%1.4%1.5%2.2%2.2%3.3%5.5%-
 totals reverts per year
14 k31 k30 k26 k24 k7 k1 k1816
   

 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 user20.3%Reg user17.9%Self5.0%
Others12.8%
Anon user1.4%
Bot1.1%
Anon user66.7%Reg user60.8%
Anon user5.5%Self4.2%
Others1.2%
Bot0.4%
Bot13.0%Reg user1.5%
Anon user0.1%
Bot11.5%Self10.1%
Others1.4%
Reg = registered, Anon = anonymous
  

 Distribution of reverts, like table above, but percentages are
 share of md5 detected reverts only, for article namespace only
201020092008200720062005200420032002
6.2%5.3%3.9%5.4%4.0%7.2%8.4%43.7%66.7%
13.4%11.8%11.4%11.7%15.2%21.8%9.1%7.8%-
1.3%1.2%1.5%1.2%1.3%2.1%4.5%2.9%-
0.8%1.2%0.5%2.3%0.9%0.5%---
65.3%62.4%63.7%63.5%53.3%45.4%48.6%17.5%-
3.6%3.7%3.6%4.8%4.4%6.9%14.6%24.3%33.3%
0.8%0.9%0.9%1.2%1.2%3.6%14.7%3.9%-
0.1%0.5%0.2%0.4%0.7%0.2%---
1.4%1.2%1.1%2.4%1.5%1.2%0.1%--
0.1%0.1%0.0%0.0%0.0%----
6.1%10.2%11.6%5.1%16.9%9.4%---
0.9%1.5%1.5%2.0%0.6%1.8%---
 totals reverts per year
12 k26 k26 k22 k19 k5 k8581033

Top Rankings

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23310SemperBlotto7005Interwicket147bitch378:English internet slang
7954Interwicket2966RobotGMwikt146love216Help:FAQ
7007EncycloPetey1963TheCheatBot144Wikipedia135User talk:SemperBlotto
6902Stephen G. Brown665UllmannBot140stupid88User:MewBot/feedme
4969Connel MacKenzie647SemperBlotto124baller81Template:requested articles
3007RobotGMwikt533AutoFormat120hello78:Modern musical symbols
1990Versageek527BD2412119dog73Help:Starting a new page
1968TheCheatBot464Connel MacKenzie115fuck72Help:How to edit a page
1897Robert Ullmann381EncycloPetey110awesome70User:SemperBlottoBot/feedme
1841Mglovesfun367Goldenrowley108gay70:Most popular given names by country
1836Equinox359Stephen G. Brown98wiki61:List of English words containing Q not followed by U
1606Ivan Štambuk350Drago95ignorance is bliss60:Australian English vocabulary
1467Jonathan Webley300130.179.29.15293cool60:Glossary of ballet
1272Atelaes250DCDuring93hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia60:Cannabis slang
1271Conrad.Irwin232Razorflame92beautiful59User:Neskaya/British slang
1175Widsith231Ncik91cunt56User talk:Connel MacKenzie/history/2007
1070Msh210183Robert Ullmann88lol51:List of fan fiction terms
1007Nadando177VolkovBot86the49:Old French nouns
891Rodasmith168Atitarev86homosexual48:Glossary of Canadian English
855Tohru164Hippietrail82cat47:Indian surnames (Khatri)
790Ultimateria162Tbot80dictionary44Talk:MILF
689Cynewulf150McBot80penis44:Glossary
653Carolina wren145Mglovesfun78gullible44User:Globish
647Razorflame141A-cai77ugly42User talk:EncycloPetey
644TheDaveRoss139Amgine76lame40User talk:Msh210
633Amgine133Williamsayers7976MILF40User:Dan Polansky
633Ruakh130Conrad.Bot74poo40:Glossary of Panamanian Spanish
622AutoFormat116AugPi73I love you38:List of portmanteaux
621DCDuring114Connel MacKenzieBot72God complex37User:Hippietrail/monobook.js
586Dijan111Darkicebot71cheese35User:Shoof
535Sewnmouthsecret110Conrad.Irwin70slut35:penis
527Dvortygirl106Frous69Wiktionary35:Contents/Index
523Goldenrowley103BiT69gorgeous33:List of longest English monosyllable words
518Vildricianus102Doremítzwr69sexy33Help:Contents
512Gauss102Atelaes67greatness33:List of auto-antonyms in English
485Jamesjiao101Ruakh66god31User talk:Connel MacKenzie/history
467Hippietrail 65nerd31:Most popular given names in the 2000s in the United States
466BD2412 65pussy30Help:Searching
461Kappa 64crap29:A Clockwork Orange
428Williamsayers79 64meh29User talk:Robert Ullmann/2008
425Caladon 64fat29:1000 Japanese basic words
408Connel MacKenzieBot 63hi29:Glossary of U.S. Navy slang
405Diuturno 62pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis29Template:shortcut
371Vahagn Petrosyan 62sex29:All languages
353Opiaterein 60pathetic28User:Vildricianus/monobook.css
339Mike 60crackhead27:Bogger
332AugPi 59gullibility27User:Conrad.Irwin/monobook.js
303Polyglot 59vagina26User:DAVilla
296Logomaniac 59lolz26:Palindromic words
275Jaaari 58Jahbulon26:English collective nouns
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

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Data processed up to Wednesday June 30, 2010
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