Russia

B-Class

Wikipedia edit history · Last edited Sep 21, 2026

23,844

Total Edits

6,286

Unique Editors

10/10

Activity signal

2001

Created

2,731

Watchers

24%

Minor Edits

339K

Monthly Views

20

Edits (90d)

Revision window and sources

Partial coverage

This report displays 500 retrieved recent revisions — about 2% of the reported 23,844 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, 8:51 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 Russia has been edited 23,844 times since it was created in 2001, by 6,286 distinct accounts and IP addresses. That works out to roughly 956 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 59% 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 353 changes. The page is currently busy: 67 of those revisions fall in the last 90 days. The most recent recorded edit was 15 days ago.

Readership has been broadly stable across the last two years of pageview data. The clearest peak in that record falls in September 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 2% of the 23,844 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

0328K656K2024-102025-022025-062025-102026-022026-062026-10

Most Edited Sections

Sections appearing most in edit summaries.

Invasion of UkraineGovernment and politicsLiterature and philosophyForeign relations

Recent Changeslast 90 days

Maxeto0910consistency
Sep 21, 2026
DocWatson42Performed cleanup.
Sep 11, 2026
DocWatson42Performed minor cleanup.
Sep 11, 2026
Chidgk1copyedit
Sep 7, 2026
Chidgk1added better source for "some authors suggesting a regeneration of totalitarian elements" as requested
Sep 7, 2026
Ur frndRequesting a better source for this one seems to be a low-quality article
Sep 6, 2026
ChristchurchHistorianno s after apostrophe (Nicholas')
Sep 6, 2026
FlutterDash344Better phrasing
Aug 31, 2026
Chidgk1copyedit
Aug 30, 2026
Chidgk1copyedit
Aug 30, 2026
Chidgk1nominal GDP isn't mentioned in the lead of the Italy article so I removed it from this one - see talk page
Aug 30, 2026
PaprikaiserReplaced links ([[WP:AMAZON]])
Aug 29, 2026
FlutterDash344no summary
Aug 27, 2026
JuihuiReligion section removed from the country template until consensus is reached.
Aug 26, 2026
Goalkeeper92In your source, the studies were conducted in 2011, and the number of respondents surveyed was smaller than in the VTsIOM study. The Orthodox Institute is a less authoritative source of information than VTsIOM.
Aug 26, 2026
JuihuiUndid revision [[Special:Diff/1371409955|1371409955]] by [[Special:Contributions/Goalkeeper92|Goalkeeper92]] ([[User talk:Goalkeeper92|talk]]) The research was carried out by the Saint Tikhon's Orthodox University in Moscow, not by the newspaper.
Aug 26, 2026
Goalkeeper92Vedomosti is a newspaper, not a sociological research center. VCIOM is a center for sociological research.
Aug 26, 2026
FlutterDash344Removing redundancy
Aug 26, 2026
JuihuiReligious affiliation in 2026, most recent survey by the Saint Tikhon's Orthodox University
Aug 25, 2026
FlutterDash344Better phrasing
Aug 22, 2026

Common questions about Russia on Wikipedia

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

Wikipedia records 23,844 edits to Russia since the article was created in 2001. Those edits come from 6,286 distinct registered accounts and IP addresses.

Who edits the Wikipedia article on Russia the most?

In the 500 revisions retrieved for this report, the most frequent contributor is Swoonfed, with 56 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 Russia created?

The earliest revision Wikipedia reports for Russia is dated October 31, 2001, making the article about 25 years old.

When was the Wikipedia article on Russia edited most heavily?

Within the revisions retrieved for this report, 2026 holds the most recorded changes, at 353. 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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