Bitcoin

The Wikipedia article on Bitcoin has been edited 18,151 times since it was created in 2009, by 3,187 distinct accounts and IP addresses. That works out to roughly 1,040 recorded changes a year — an article being rewritten in small pieces almost every hour of the day.

Within the revisions retrieved for this report, the ten busiest contributors account for about 67% of the changes. Editing that concentrated usually means a small group of regulars is doing the maintenance, which tends to produce consistent wording — and also means the page reflects a narrow set of contributors. In the same window, about 6% of the retrieved revisions came from bot accounts, which handle routine work such as link repair and reference formatting.

Within the retrieved window, 2024 carries the most recorded activity, with 180 changes. 13 of those revisions fall in the last 90 days. The most recent recorded edit was 34 days ago.

Readership is cooling: the last three months of pageviews run about 42% below the preceding period. The clearest peak in that record falls in December 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 18,151 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.