Abraham Lincoln

The Wikipedia article on Abraham Lincoln has been edited 20,169 times since it was created in 2001, by 5,506 distinct accounts and IP addresses. That averages about 813 recorded changes a year, or several every day, which puts it among the more actively maintained pages on the encyclopedia.

Within the revisions retrieved for this report, the ten busiest contributors account for about 58% of the changes, with the rest spread across a long tail of occasional editors. That is a fairly typical mix of regular maintainers and passing corrections.

Within the retrieved window, 2026 carries the most recorded activity, with 278 changes. The page is currently busy: 61 of those revisions fall in the last 90 days. The most recent recorded edit was 24 days ago.

This report is built from the 500 most recent revisions retrieved from Wikipedia, about 2% of the 20,169 recorded edits. Figures drawn from that window describe the window only, and the report cannot establish why a change was made or whether it was correct. For older revisions, talk-page discussion and full context, follow the source history on Wikipedia.