Australia

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Wikipedia edit history · Last edited Jul 31, 2026

19,403

Total Edits

6,066

Unique Editors

10/10

Activity signal

2001

Created

2,557

Watchers

28%

Minor Edits

463K

Monthly Views

20

Edits (90d)

Revision window and sources

Partial coverage

This report displays 500 retrieved recent revisions — about 3% of the reported 19,403 edits. It cannot establish why a change was made, whether it is correct, or what happened outside this window.

Retrieved for this report: Aug 22, 2026, 1:32 PM UTC. Totals and pageviews are source-provided; the activity signal and section list are derived from the retrieved window.

What this edit history shows

The Wikipedia article on Australia has been edited 19,403 times since it was created in 2001, by 6,066 distinct accounts and IP addresses. That averages about 782 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 48% 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, 2025 carries the most recorded activity, with 331 changes. 45 of those revisions fall in the last 90 days. The most recent recorded edit was 22 days ago.

Readership has been broadly stable across the last two years of pageview data. The clearest peak in that record falls in August 2024. Traffic spikes and editing spikes often line up, but the revision record alone cannot tell you which one caused the other, or whether an outside event drove both.

This report is built from the 500 most recent revisions retrieved from Wikipedia, about 3% of the 19,403 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.

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Showing last 500 edits2025 to 2026

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Monthly Pageviews

Last 24 months from Wikimedia Analytics

0360K720K2024-082024-122025-042025-082025-122026-042026-08

Most Edited Sections

Sections appearing most in edit summaries.

BibliographyPost-war and contemporary erasGovernment and politicsEuropean exploration and colonisationFederation to the World Wars

Recent Changeslast 90 days

8oym8no summary
Jul 31, 2026
Bis-Serjetà?Rescuing 63 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0.9.5
Jul 29, 2026
AutspectorderAdjusted image locations.
Jul 28, 2026
Fêmea Fatalno summary
Jul 26, 2026
PerfectionisticOCDAdded links to respective articles on health & education in Australia
Jul 25, 2026
PerfectionisticOCDAdded additional link to [[Australian Bureau of Statistics]]
Jul 25, 2026
UncreativenamingI separated the migrant percentage and Australia has eighth largest immigrant pop sentences, to make it clearer that Aus does not have the eighth highest per capita.
Jul 25, 2026
PJ Geest+ see also [[Electricity sector in Australia]]
Jul 22, 2026
PJ Geest+ image of coal fired power station
Jul 22, 2026
PJ GeestVersie [[Special:Diff/1365441530|1365441530]] van [[Special:Contributions/PJ Geest|PJ Geest]] ([[User talk:PJ Geest|overleg]]) ongedaan gemaakt
Jul 22, 2026
PJ Geest+graph
Jul 22, 2026
Dawnseeker2000fixed [[MOS:DASH|dashes]] using [[User:Ohconfucius/dashes.js]], [[Wikipedia:MOSNUMscript|script]]-assisted date audit and style fixes per [[MOS:NUM]] | Standardise citation spacing using [[User:Mesidast/Tidy citations|a script]]
Jul 22, 2026
FlutterDash344no summary
Jul 19, 2026
Aemilius AdolphinThis is reliably sourced. Please discuss for proposed deletion on Talk. Please see the previous discussions on the Talk archives
Jul 14, 2026
AnomieBOTRescuing orphaned refs ("Malaspinas-2016" from rev 1364111133)
Jul 14, 2026
EopsidOne of doesnt really mean much and the previous paragraph goes into more detail of how long they've been there.
Jul 14, 2026
EopsidRemoved weasel words: One of the oldest doesnt really mean much, one could argue all cultures are equally as old
Jul 14, 2026
Aemilius AdolphinMisleading and too detailed for the info box. The census counts self-described ancestry, not ethnic groups. Please discuss on Talk
Jul 12, 2026
SSCreaderno summary
Jul 12, 2026
SSCreaderno summary
Jul 12, 2026

Common questions about Australia on Wikipedia

How many times has the Wikipedia article on Australia been edited?

Wikipedia records 19,403 edits to Australia since the article was created in 2001. Those edits come from 6,066 distinct registered accounts and IP addresses.

Who edits the Wikipedia article on Australia the most?

In the 500 revisions retrieved for this report, the most frequent contributor is Aemilius Adolphin, with 146 edits. A high edit count reflects recorded activity in this window only; it does not imply ownership of the article or that the edits were accepted unchanged.

When was the Wikipedia article on Australia created?

The earliest revision Wikipedia reports for Australia is dated November 4, 2001, making the article about 25 years old.

When was the Wikipedia article on Australia edited most heavily?

Within the revisions retrieved for this report, 2025 holds the most recorded changes, at 331. Because the report covers a retrieved window rather than the entire history, an earlier year outside that window could have been busier.

How do I see the full edit history of Australia on Wikipedia?

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