Wikipedia

The Wikipedia article on Wikipedia has been edited 38,081 times since it was created in 2001, by 14,700 distinct accounts and IP addresses. That works out to roughly 1,536 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 only about 28% of the changes. Editing that dispersed means no small group dominates the page; most changes arrive from editors who touch it once or twice. In the same window, about 7% of the retrieved revisions came from bot accounts, which handle routine work such as link repair and reference formatting.

Within the retrieved window, 2025 carries the most recorded activity, with 335 changes. The page is currently busy: 55 of those revisions fall in the last 90 days. The most recent recorded edit was 22 days ago.

Readership has been broadly stable across the last two years of pageview data. The clearest peak in that record falls in October 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 1% of the 38,081 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.