Pope Francis

The Wikipedia article on Pope Francis has been edited 9,957 times since it was created in 2005, by 2,316 distinct accounts and IP addresses. That averages about 466 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 41% 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, 2025 carries the most recorded activity, with 441 changes. 18 of those revisions fall in the last 90 days. The most recent recorded edit was 23 days ago.

This report is built from the 500 most recent revisions retrieved from Wikipedia, about 5% of the 9,957 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.