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Last edited Jun 24, 2026
14,803
Total Edits
4,482
Unique Editors
10/10
Controversy Score
2001
Created
2,631
Watchers
26%
Minor Edits
254K
Monthly Views
20
Edits (90d)
The Wikipedia article on American Civil War has been edited 14,803 times by 4,482 different editors since it was created roughly 25 years ago in 2001. That works out to an average of about 592 edits per year, though activity is rarely spread evenly โ most articles see long quiet stretches punctuated by short bursts of intense editing.
With a controversy score of 10/10, this is one of the more contested articles on English Wikipedia. A score this high means edits are frequently reverted โ editors are undoing each other's work rather than building on it, which is the classic signature of an active dispute over how the subject should be described. Readers should treat sections of this article as potentially unstable, and check the talk page to understand what the disagreements are about.
Within the 500 most recent revisions we analysed, the single most active contributor is Maurice Magnus, responsible for about 31% of the changes in that window. That is a notably high concentration โ when one account makes a large share of the edits, the articleโs framing can lean heavily on a single personโs perspective, which is worth keeping in mind when you read it. The busiest year in our data was 2025, when editing activity peaked โ spikes like this usually line up with real-world news events involving the subject.
The sections that show up most often in edit summaries are Battles, Attitude of the border states, Origins, top, Confederate. These are the parts of the article that editors revisit most โ a useful shortcut to where the action, and any disagreement, is concentrated.
All figures above are computed live from Wikipedia's public revision data. For a deeper explanation of what these numbers mean, see our guides on edit wars, article quality ratings, and how to read an edit history.
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Showing last 500 edits โ 2024 to 2026
Sections appearing most in edit summaries.
| # | Editor | Edits | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maurice Magnus | 154 | |
| 2 | CaptainEek | 26 | |
| 3 | Renamed user 4e6adcd78645ab0c4b7e792ea8cc56ed | 22 | |
| 4 | Keystone18 | 19 | |
| 5 | Remsense | 15 | |
| 6 | Alanscottwalker | 13 | |
| 7 | Kpop777 | 12 | |
| 8 | Citation bot | 9 | |
| 9 | Slatersteven | 7 | |
| 10 | Valenciano | 5 |