Climate change

The Wikipedia article on Climate change has been edited 27,354 times since it was created in 2001, by 5,391 distinct accounts and IP addresses. That works out to roughly 1,103 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 57% 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. 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, 2025 carries the most recorded activity, with 225 changes. 23 of those revisions fall in the last 90 days. The most recent recorded edit was 30 days ago.

Readership has been broadly stable across the last two years of pageview data. The clearest peak in that record falls in January 2026. 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 2% of the 27,354 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.