Communism

B-Class

Wikipedia edit history · Last edited Sep 29, 2026

12,693

Total Edits

4,566

Unique Editors

10/10

Activity signal

2001

Created

2,195

Watchers

27%

Minor Edits

96K

Monthly Views

20

Edits (90d)

Revision window and sources

Partial coverage

This report displays 500 retrieved recent revisions — about 4% of the reported 12,693 edits. It cannot establish why a change was made, whether it is correct, or what happened outside this window.

Retrieved for this report: Oct 6, 2026, 1:30 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 Communism has been edited 12,693 times since it was created in 2001, by 4,566 distinct accounts and IP addresses. That averages about 508 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 42% 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 7% of the retrieved revisions came from bot accounts, which handle routine work such as link repair and reference formatting.

Within the retrieved window, 2026 carries the most recorded activity, with 144 changes. 30 of those revisions fall in the last 90 days. The most recent recorded edit was 6 days ago.

Readership has been broadly stable across the last two years of pageview data. The clearest peak in that record falls in January 2025. 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 4% of the 12,693 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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Monthly Pageviews

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Most Edited Sections

Sections appearing most in edit summaries.

Revolutionary wave of 1917–1923Memory and legacytopPost-Soviet communismSee also

Recent Changeslast 90 days

FaviFake/* Explanatory footnotes */
Sep 29, 2026
C.J. GriffinUndid revision [[Special:Diff/1376576207|1376576207]] by [[Special:Contributions/Yikes9272|Yikes9272]] ([[User talk:Yikes9272|talk]]) There was no consensus on talk for the inclusion of “far-left”, and no discussion for including “authoritarian”
Sep 25, 2026
Yikes9272Undid revision [[Special:Diff/1376571327|1376571327]] by [[Special:Contributions/C.J. Griffin|C.J. Griffin]] ([[User talk:C.J. Griffin|talk]]). There is not a clear consensus version here, indeed, the discussion on this in June reflected most editors wanted some mention of far-left in the lead. Therefore, my version is probably the consensus version at this point. Please use talk page for your POV.
Sep 25, 2026
C.J. GriffinRestoring consensus version
Sep 25, 2026
Yikes9272Undid revision [[Special:Diff/1376570455|1376570455]] by [[Special:Contributions/Yikes9272|Yikes9272]] ([[User talk:Yikes9272|talk]])
Sep 25, 2026
Yikes9272no summary
Sep 25, 2026
Yikes9272Changed descriptor to be more WP:NPOV and to fit more in line with the descriptors in the "far left politics" article.
Sep 25, 2026
BD2412Fixing [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links|links to disambiguation pages]], replaced: [[interest]] → [[Interest (economics)|interest]]
Sep 19, 2026
VipzUndid revision [[Special:Diff/1375158957|1375158957]] by [[Special:Contributions/Lulasaurius|Lulasaurius]] ([[User talk:Lulasaurius|talk]]) This has been discussed very recently, please see the talk page.
Sep 16, 2026
Lulasauriusno summary
Sep 16, 2026
AnomieBOTDating maintenance tags: {{Citation needed}}
Sep 14, 2026
222emilia222added info (sources incoming sorry)
Sep 14, 2026
222emilia222added info about shining path, more concurrent people war info to come..
Sep 14, 2026
Matsievsky/* Achievements of the Soviet planned economies */
Aug 31, 2026
Objective3000Duplicate
Aug 22, 2026
JArthur1984per the recent talk discussion, moving this further back to where communism is distinguished from otherviews of socialism
Aug 17, 2026
Ed Moisepage numbers added
Aug 13, 2026
DuncanHillFixing [[:Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors|harv/sfn reference errors]]. Please install [[User:Trappist the monk/HarvErrors.js]] and watchlist [[:Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors]] to help you spot such errors when reading and editing.
Aug 9, 2026
DuncanHillMoved from Further reading
Aug 9, 2026
DuncanHillMoving to Sources
Aug 9, 2026

Common questions about Communism on Wikipedia

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

Wikipedia records 12,693 edits to Communism since the article was created in 2001. Those edits come from 4,566 distinct registered accounts and IP addresses.

Who edits the Wikipedia article on Communism the most?

In the 500 revisions retrieved for this report, the most frequent contributor is Tokisaki Kurumi, with 45 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 Communism created?

The earliest revision Wikipedia reports for Communism is dated October 16, 2001, making the article about 25 years old.

When was the Wikipedia article on Communism edited most heavily?

Within the revisions retrieved for this report, 2026 holds the most recorded changes, at 144. Because the report covers a retrieved window rather than the entire history, an earlier year outside that window could have been busier.

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