Dalai Lama

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Wikipedia edit history · Last edited Sep 25, 2026

6,502

Total Edits

2,970

Unique Editors

10/10

Activity signal

2001

Created

732

Watchers

29%

Minor Edits

41K

Monthly Views

14

Edits (90d)

Revision window and sources

Partial coverage

This report displays 500 retrieved recent revisions — about 8% of the reported 6,502 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, 5:15 AM 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 Dalai Lama has been edited 6,502 times since it was created in 2001, by 2,970 distinct accounts and IP addresses. That averages about 260 recorded changes a year — a steady weekly rhythm rather than a constant one.

Within the revisions retrieved for this report, the ten busiest contributors account for only about 31% of the changes. Editing that dispersed means no small group dominates the page; most changes arrive from editors who touch it once or twice. In the same window, about 9% of the retrieved revisions came from bot accounts, which handle routine work such as link repair and reference formatting, and roughly 19% came from unregistered editors identified only by IP address.

Within the retrieved window, 2025 carries the most recorded activity, with 194 changes. 14 of those revisions fall in the last 90 days. The most recent recorded edit was 10 days ago.

Readership is cooling: the last three months of pageviews run about 34% below the preceding period. The clearest peak in that record falls in July 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 8% of the 6,502 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

Last 24 months from Wikimedia Analytics

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Most Edited Sections

Sections appearing most in edit summaries.

Names14th Dalai LamaList of Dalai LamasFuture of the position3rd Dalai Lama

Recent Changeslast 90 days

GreenC botMove 1 url. [[User:GreenC/WaybackMedic_2.5|Wayback Medic 2.5]] per [[WP:URLREQ#thehindu.com]] PassA
Sep 25, 2026
Fleedre[[WP:NAMEDREFS|Deduplicated]] 2 references using [[User:Polygnotus/Scripts/DeduplicateReferences|DeduplicateReferences]] Merging references with [[User:Uglemat/RefMan|RefMan]]
Sep 22, 2026
AlsoWukaice
Sep 21, 2026
G1rlbaloobReworded small section under 'Enthronement in Lhasa' heading for tone & clarity
Sep 17, 2026
OpalYosutebitoTagged [[WP:DUPREF|duplicate citations]] using [[User:Polygnotus/DuplicateReferences|DuplicateReferences]]
Sep 13, 2026
ZackBotfixing deprecated parameters for [[Template:Infobox official post]] ([[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ZackBot 14|ZackBot 14]])
Sep 7, 2026
ThaesOfereodeSp
Aug 20, 2026
Enquireclean-up infobox
Jul 30, 2026
AnomieBOTDating maintenance tags: {{Cn}}
Jul 18, 2026
Amigaoneed [[WP:IS]]
Jul 18, 2026
Amigaoneed [[WP:RS]] for this statement, not an op-ed piece
Jul 18, 2026
AlsoWukaice
Jul 18, 2026
Paste338The Dalai Lama is not the spiritual head of the gelug school. That is the Gaden Tripa.
Jul 17, 2026
Kozak391Changed circular ref to ill
Jul 13, 2026

Common questions about Dalai Lama on Wikipedia

How many times has the Wikipedia article on Dalai Lama been edited?

Wikipedia records 6,502 edits to Dalai Lama since the article was created in 2001. Those edits come from 2,970 distinct registered accounts and IP addresses.

Who edits the Wikipedia article on Dalai Lama the most?

In the 500 revisions retrieved for this report, the most frequent contributor is Toto11zi, with 61 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 Dalai Lama created?

The earliest revision Wikipedia reports for Dalai Lama is dated October 18, 2001, making the article about 25 years old.

When was the Wikipedia article on Dalai Lama edited most heavily?

Within the revisions retrieved for this report, 2025 holds the most recorded changes, at 194. 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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