New York City

The Wikipedia article on New York City has been edited 26,278 times since it was created in 2001, by 6,753 distinct accounts and IP addresses. That works out to roughly 1,061 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 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, 2026 carries the most recorded activity, with 377 changes. The page is currently busy: 157 of those revisions fall in the last 90 days. The most recent recorded edit was 22 days ago.

This report is built from the 500 most recent revisions retrieved from Wikipedia, about 2% of the 26,278 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.