North Korea

B-Class

Wikipedia edit history · Last edited Sep 30, 2026

15,635

Total Edits

6,004

Unique Editors

10/10

Activity signal

2001

Created

1,810

Watchers

27%

Minor Edits

191K

Monthly Views

20

Edits (90d)

Revision window and sources

Partial coverage

This report displays 500 retrieved recent revisions — about 3% of the reported 15,635 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, 5:49 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 North Korea has been edited 15,635 times since it was created in 2001, by 6,004 distinct accounts and IP addresses. That averages about 615 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 44% 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 5% 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 276 changes. The page is currently busy: 64 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 March 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 3% of the 15,635 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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Most Edited Sections

Sections appearing most in edit summaries.

Governance and politicsThe unified powers of the Supreme People's AssemblyEconomytop

Recent Changeslast 90 days

Yuerv: Please start a discussion on the talk page as is required when you add maintenance tags to the top of an article. Also, [[MOS:LEADCITE]] states that citations in the lead are not preferred if it is redundant as the lead is supposed to repeat information in the body. You also need to be more specific with your AI checker because the lead has been more than less the same since before AI became mainstream in the 2020s. GPTZero, for example, returns 100% human.
Sep 30, 2026
ZImperatorUndid revision [[Special:Diff/1376355007|1376355007]] by [[Special:Contributions/The Account 2|The Account 2]] ([[User talk:The Account 2|talk]]) Except the infobox, there are no citations in the introduction. Also, running an AI check on the introduction returns an 80% generated by AI score, so added the machine generated template as well.
Sep 30, 2026
Yuerv: Amendments do not create new constitutions.
Sep 30, 2026
Nguyenduong2601/* */
Sep 29, 2026
Yuerv: Again, that file remains unsourced.
Sep 26, 2026
11th03no summary
Sep 26, 2026
Nguyenduong2601/* Joint US-Soviet occupation and Division of Korea */
Sep 25, 2026
Nguyenduong2601/* */
Sep 25, 2026
Nguyenduong2601no summary
Sep 25, 2026
Nguyenduong2601/* */
Sep 25, 2026
The Account 2Undid revision [[Special:Diff/1376332338|1376332338]] by [[Special:Contributions/ZImperator|ZImperator]] ([[User talk:ZImperator|talk]]) the artice is pretty well cited
Sep 23, 2026
ZImperatorAdded needs more citations template.
Sep 23, 2026
Yuerv: [[WP:OR|Original research]], see talk.
Sep 22, 2026
11th03Flag changed
Sep 22, 2026
EzYopno summary
Sep 21, 2026
Hddtymove note
Sep 20, 2026
Nguyenduong2601/* */
Sep 20, 2026
The Account 2no summary
Sep 10, 2026
The Account 2Undid revision [[Special:Diff/1374118443|1374118443]] by [[Special:Contributions/SovietAddict68|SovietAddict68]] ([[User talk:SovietAddict68|talk]]) there was, and North Korea indeed calls itself communist
Sep 10, 2026
SovietAddict68There was no consensus on calling North Korea a "unitary communist state" as North Korea no longer considered itself a communist state a long while ago. Also made a few minor corrections.
Sep 9, 2026

Common questions about North Korea on Wikipedia

How many times has the Wikipedia article on North Korea been edited?

Wikipedia records 15,635 edits to North Korea since the article was created in 2001. Those edits come from 6,004 distinct registered accounts and IP addresses.

Who edits the Wikipedia article on North Korea the most?

In the 500 revisions retrieved for this report, the most frequent contributor is The Account 2, with 68 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 North Korea created?

The earliest revision Wikipedia reports for North Korea is dated May 11, 2001, making the article about 25 years old.

When was the Wikipedia article on North Korea edited most heavily?

Within the revisions retrieved for this report, 2026 holds the most recorded changes, at 276. 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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