Editing Encyclopedia:Statistics (section)

=== Edits ===

In 2024, people from all over the world did 597 million edits to Wikimedia projects.<ref>[https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/all-projects/contributing/edits/normal|bar|2024-01-01~2025-01-01|~total|monthly Wikimedia Statistics - All wikis - 2024]</ref> Wikipedia (in all languages) received 180 million edits<ref>[https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/all-wikipedia-projects/contributing/edits/normal|bar|2024-01-01~2025-01-01|~total|monthly Wikimedia Statistics - All Wikipedias - 2024]</ref> and the English Wikipedia 72 million edits.<ref>[https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org/contributing/edits/normal|bar|2024-01-01~2025-01-01|~total|monthly Wikimedia Statistics - English Wikipedia - 2024]</ref>

In the last years, around 11–13% of edits are [[Wikipedia:Editing on mobile devices|mobile edits]] and 6–8% are done using [[Wikipedia:VisualEditor|VisualEditor]].<ref>[https://en.wikiscan.org/?menu=tables&submenu=tags Wikiscan - Tags]</ref> Roughly, about 4–5% of all edits are [[Wikipedia:Reverting|reverts]].<ref>[https://en.wikiscan.org/?menu=tables&submenu=reverts Wikiscan - Reverts]</ref>

{{Wikipedia:Statistics/Statistics|1=Edits to all pages by year in the English Wikipedia}}

Considering all Wikimedia projects, around 18 edits are submitted every second, half of them are done by [[Wikipedia:Bots|bots]].

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Project !! Edits in 2024 !! Edits by humans in 2024 !! Edits by bots in 2024
|- style="text-align: right;background-color:lightblue"
| [[English Wikipedia]] || 72 million (2.2 edits/sec) || 48 million (1.5 edits/sec) || 24 million (0.7 edits/sec)
|- style="text-align: right;"
| [[meta:List of Wikipedias|All active Wikipedias]] || 180 million (5.7 edits/sec) || 109 million (3.4 edits/sec) || 71 million (2.2 edits/sec)
|- style="text-align: right;"
| All Wikimedia projects || 597 million (18.9 edits/sec) || 287 million (9.1 edits/sec) || 310 million (9.8 edits/sec) 
|}
Source: [https://stats.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Statistics]

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! colspan=4 | Tools for measuring edits
|-
! Tool !! Scope !! Description !! Status
|-
| [[Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits|List of Wikipedians by number of edits]] || User || 10,000 editors with highest editcounts, updated daily. || {{active}}
|-
| [[Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by article count|List of Wikipedians by article count]] || User || Top 10,000 editors by article creation. || {{active}}
|-
| [[Template:Registered editors by edit count|Registered editors by edit count]] || User || How many registered editors have made a given number of edits. || {{active}}
|-
| [https://wrating.ukrface.org/?le=en&l=en WRating] || User || Evaluates the contribution of Wikipedia contributors to its traffic over the past month. || {{active}}
|-
| [[Wikipedia:Database reports/Pages with the most revisions]] || Page ||  || {{active}}
|-
| [[Special:MostRevisions]] || Page || Similar to the above but only for articles. || {{active}}
|-
| [[Wikipedia:Database reports/Most edited articles last month]] || Page ||  || {{active}}
|-
| [https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/all-projects/contributing/top-edited-pages/normal stats.wikimedia.org] || Page || Interactive tool || {{active}}
|-
| [https://wiki4trends.oeffentliche-it.de/oefit-data/ wiki4trends] || Ranking || Statistics regarding the development of pageviews and edits over time. Field of interest is public it but the source code is available open source and can be customized. || {{active}}
|-
| [[Wikipedia:Most frequently edited pages|Most frequently edited pages]] || Page || Inactive since May 2008. || {{site inactive}}
|-
| [https://page-creation.wmflabs.org/#projects=enwiki/metrics=Daily%20Non-redirect%20Pages%20Created%20in%20the%20Main%20namespace%20(ns%3D0) New articles created per day] || Overall || Can be filtered by user group or namespace || {{active}}
|-
| [[Wikipedia:Time Between Edits|Time between edits]] || Overall || Length of time (measured in days) between each block of 10,000,000 edits made to Wikipedia since January 16, 2001. || {{active}}
|}