Same-sex marriage

The Wikipedia article on Same-sex marriage has been edited 21,497 times since it was created in 2002, by 6,896 distinct accounts and IP addresses. That averages about 882 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 56% 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, 2024 carries the most recorded activity, with 333 changes. 41 of those revisions fall in the last 90 days. The most recent recorded edit was 30 days ago.

This report is built from the 500 most recent revisions retrieved from Wikipedia, about 2% of the 21,497 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.