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Counting editors

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What the edit history of Vladimir Putin tells you

The Wikipedia article on Vladimir Putin has been edited 17,868 times by 5,171 different editors since it was created roughly 24 years ago in 2002. That works out to an average of about 745 edits per year, though activity is rarely spread evenly — most articles see long quiet stretches punctuated by short bursts of intense editing.

With a controversy score of 10/10, this is one of the more contested articles on English Wikipedia. A score this high means edits are frequently reverted — editors are undoing each other's work rather than building on it, which is the classic signature of an active dispute over how the subject should be described. Readers should treat sections of this article as potentially unstable, and check the talk page to understand what the disagreements are about.

Within the 500 most recent revisions we analysed, the single most active contributor is Pachu Kannan, responsible for about 3% of the changes in that window. That is a fairly healthy spread, suggesting the article is maintained by a broad community rather than dominated by any one voice. The busiest year in our data was 2025, when editing activity peaked — spikes like this usually line up with real-world news events involving the subject.

The sections that show up most often in edit summaries are External links, Assessments, After the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, top, Sports. These are the parts of the article that editors revisit most — a useful shortcut to where the action, and any disagreement, is concentrated.

All figures above are computed live from Wikipedia's public revision data. For a deeper explanation of what these numbers mean, see our guides on edit wars, article quality ratings, and how to read an edit history.