Re: [Wiki-research-l] What's the average number of edits per day on English Wikipedia?

Tue, 07 May 2013 10:39:31 -0700

Hi Jodi

see attached, the median of daily enwiki edits (all namespaces, including bots and anonymous edits) in 2013 to date is 127K. (data from the RecentChanges feed)

Generated from:,https://dash.metamarkets.com/wikipedia_editstream/explore#e=2013-05-02&gran=day&p=custom&s=2013-01-01&w.0.k=language&w.0.v.0=en&zz=3,,,,,,,,,
Language:,en,,,,,,,,,

Timestamp,Edits,Unique Users,Total Delta,Total Added,Total Deleted,Average Delta,Average Added,Average Deleted,Total Variation,Average Variation
2013-01-01T00:00:00.000Z,109509,17077.36238,17890928,42826073,-24935145,163.3740423,391.0735465,-227.6995042,67761218,618.7730506
2013-01-02T00:00:00.000Z,124583,20534.71704,24848790,49554926,-24706136,199.4557042,397.7663566,-198.3106523,74261062,596.0770089
2013-01-03T00:00:00.000Z,128169,21510.81527,23281751,51350328,-28068577,181.6488464,400.6454603,-218.9966138,79418905,619.6420741
2013-01-04T00:00:00.000Z,142757,20871.59554,24016497,49024175,-25007678,168.2334106,343.4099554,-175.1765448,74031853,518.5865001
2013-01-05T00:00:00.000Z,127335,18629.80667,16003587,44084907,-28081320,125.6809754,346.2120155,-220.5310402,72166227,566.7430557
2013-01-06T00:00:00.000Z,126596,19097.3429,13426230,43124985,-29698755,106.0557206,340.650455,-234.5947344,72823740,575.2451894
2013-01-07T00:00:00.000Z,124507,22156.44517,21157900,46101548,-24943648,169.9334174,370.2727397,-200.3393223,71045196,570.612062
2013-01-08T00:00:00.000Z,129899,21475.28865,22481974,41471508,-18989534,173.0727257,319.2596402,-146.1869144,60461042,465.4465546
2013-01-09T00:00:00.000Z,188192,21949.96861,20674129,43920011,-23245882,109.8565773,233.3787355,-123.5221582,67165893,356.9008938
2013-01-10T00:00:00.000Z,134529,21194.3651,17178793,45486474,-28307681,127.6958351,338.1164953,-210.4206602,73794155,548.5371556
2013-01-11T00:00:00.000Z,124030,21088.44855,22506912,39844572,-17337660,181.4634524,321.2494719,-139.7860195,57182232,461.0354914
2013-01-12T00:00:00.000Z,118622,18575.88641,20926551,39536026,-18609475,176.4137428,333.2942119,-156.8804691,58145501,490.1746809
2013-01-13T00:00:00.000Z,121642,19795.91129,20654925,38159126,-17504201,169.8009322,313.7002516,-143.8993193,55663327,457.5995709
2013-01-14T00:00:00.000Z,133275,21501.94943,22834176,44735200,-21901024,171.3312774,335.6608516,-164.3295742,66636224,499.9904258
2013-01-15T00:00:00.000Z,124116,20951.75609,21234869,43429136,-22194267,171.0888926,349.9076348,-178.8187421,65623403,528.7263769
2013-01-16T00:00:00.000Z,120694,20969.41396,14662266,48828919,-34166653,121.4829735,404.5679073,-283.0849338,82995572,687.6528411
2013-01-17T00:00:00.000Z,122904,21285.54626,17684600,43214305,-25529705,143.8895398,351.6102405,-207.7207007,68744010,559.3309412
2013-01-18T00:00:00.000Z,122013,19535.92029,22298238,49792792,-27494554,182.7529689,408.0941539,-225.341185,77287346,633.4353389
2013-01-19T00:00:00.000Z,115666,18292.27368,19619649,36163122,-16543473,169.6233033,312.6512718,-143.0279685,52706595,455.6792402
2013-01-20T00:00:00.000Z,114867,18608.82557,20786859,38024756,-17237897,180.9645851,331.0328989,-150.0683138,55262653,481.1012127
2013-01-21T00:00:00.000Z,94672,16254.60799,18314632,35635837,-17321205,193.4535237,376.4136915,-182.9601677,52957042,559.3738592
2013-01-22T00:00:00.000Z,121721,21877.89999,20991667,41894083,-20902416,172.4572342,344.1812259,-171.7239918,62796499,515.9052177
2013-01-23T00:00:00.000Z,126372,22280.91477,31099326,57362360,-26263034,246.0934859,453.9166904,-207.8232045,83625394,661.7398949
2013-01-24T00:00:00.000Z,123123,21089.4035,7180400,51646751,-44466351,58.31891686,419.4728117,-361.1538949,96113102,780.6267066
2013-01-25T00:00:00.000Z,129288,20086.96596,22378997,41553716,-19174719,173.0941541,321.4042757,-148.3101216,60728435,469.7143973
2013-01-26T00:00:00.000Z,123238,18427.66687,17602388,36226442,-18624054,142.8324705,293.9551275,-151.122657,54850496,445.0777844
2013-01-27T00:00:00.000Z,137850,19489.03268,17789920,40705395,-22915475,129.0527385,295.2875952,-166.2348567,63620870,461.5224519
2013-01-28T00:00:00.000Z,132593,21938.19886,25373409,45979048,-20605639,191.3631112,346.7682909,-155.4051798,66584687,502.1734707
2013-01-29T00:00:00.000Z,128717,22480.97897,19752072,45965516,-26213444,153.4534832,357.1052464,-203.6517632,72178960,560.7570096
2013-01-30T00:00:00.000Z,133774,22223.85671,25676280,44772926,-19096646,191.9377458,334.6907919,-142.7530462,63869572,477.4438381
2013-01-31T00:00:00.000Z,123180,21382.13499,22690156,43197254,-20507098,184.2032473,350.6839909,-166.4807436,63704352,517.1647345
2013-02-01T00:00:00.000Z,122451,21089.42258,23802871,43202950,-19400079,194.3869058,352.8182702,-158.4313644,62603029,511.2496345
2013-02-02T00:00:00.000Z,122136,18144.91371,19533565,38784390,-19250825,159.9329027,317.550845,-157.6179423,58035215,475.1687873
2013-02-03T00:00:00.000Z,122177,20261.50128,19062334,40650649,-21588315,156.0222792,332.7193252,-176.6970461,62238964,509.4163713
2013-02-04T00:00:00.000Z,130446,21000.96587,17272273,39424808,-22152535,132.4093725,302.2308695,-169.821497,61577343,472.0523665
2013-02-05T00:00:00.000Z,134140,22097.53422,23433086,42384146,-18951060,174.6912629,315.9694796,-141.2782168,61335206,457.2476964
2013-02-06T00:00:00.000Z,137276,21343.75082,23988974,47215018,-23226044,174.749949,343.9422623,-169.1923133,70441062,513.1345756
2013-02-07T00:00:00.000Z,129553,20937.66911,23878887,45503317,-21624430,184.3175148,351.2332173,-166.9157025,67127747,518.1489197
2013-02-08T00:00:00.000Z,129059,21175.10628,18739483,47649827,-28910344,145.2009004,369.2096406,-224.0087402,76560171,593.2183807
2013-02-09T00:00:00.000Z,116620,17710.60334,23802758,42450820,-18648062,204.1052821,364.0097753,-159.9044932,61098882,523.9142686
2013-02-10T00:00:00.000Z,121538,19395.02201,19859862,38025441,-18165579,163.4045484,312.8687406,-149.4641923,56191020,462.3329329
2013-02-11T00:00:00.000Z,120490,21602.08135,18789111,39756266,-20967155,155.9391734,329.9549008,-174.0157274,60723421,503.9706283
2013-02-12T00:00:00.000Z,128794,21984.9208,19362482,41677552,-22315070,150.3368325,323.5985527,-173.2617203,63992622,496.860273
2013-02-13T00:00:00.000Z,126640,21520.2715,26107103,47000982,-20893879,206.1521083,371.1385186,-164.9864103,67894861,536.1249289
2013-02-14T00:00:00.000Z,118151,20794.34457,22181480,42128269,-19946789,187.7384026,356.5629491,-168.8245466,62075058,525.3874957
2013-02-15T00:00:00.000Z,114874,19964.61649,16593845,38359051,-21765206,144.4525741,333.9228285,-189.4702544,60124257,523.3930829
2013-02-16T00:00:00.000Z,109547,18561.06938,18381843,37047103,-18665260,167.7986891,338.1845509,-170.3858618,55712363,508.5704127
2013-02-17T00:00:00.000Z,116391,18782.2099,20640754,43415647,-22774893,177.3397771,373.0154995,-195.6757223,66190540,568.6912218
2013-02-18T00:00:00.000Z,117407,22216.63743,19560812,40829612,-21268800,166.6068633,347.761309,-181.1544456,62098412,528.9157546
2013-02-19T00:00:00.000Z,138035,21935.95011,14121033,45269653,-31148620,102.3003803,327.9577861,-225.6574057,76418273,553.6151918
2013-02-20T00:00:00.000Z,142673,20968.20692,-4738469,42904643,-47643112,-33.21209339,300.7201292,-333.9322226,90547755,634.6523519
2013-02-21T00:00:00.000Z,190185,22518.0881,-25572277,42864755,-68437032,-134.46001,225.3845203,-359.8445303,111301787,585.2290507
2013-02-22T00:00:00.000Z,186728,20521.58144,-13288979,45107416,-58396395,-71.1675753,241.5674993,-312.7350745,103503811,554.3025738
2013-02-23T00:00:00.000Z,139829,18261.11587,7861692,38345113,-30483421,56.22361599,274.228615,-218.004999,68828534,492.2336139
2013-02-24T00:00:00.000Z,91898,14748.30208,11591487,27886671,-16295184,126.1342684,303.4524255,-177.3181571,44181855,480.7705826
2013-02-25T00:00:00.000Z,195015,21835.8833,-3379182,43690420,-47069602,-17.32780555,224.0362023,-241.3640079,90760022,465.4002102
2013-02-26T00:00:00.000Z,334129,21884.90682,-26750307,41412583,-68162890,-80.05981821,123.9418997,-204.0017179,109575473,327.9436176
2013-02-27T00:00:00.000Z,257246,21494.04846,3310957,50985252,-47674295,12.87078128,198.1964812,-185.3256999,98659547,383.5221811
2013-02-28T00:00:00.000Z,244328,20845.43798,4351654,39857895,-35506241,17.81070528,163.1327355,-145.3220302,75364136,308.4547657
2013-03-01T00:00:00.000Z,198743,20239.84775,12777523,43682806,-30905283,64.29168826,219.7954444,-155.5037561,74588089,375.2992005
2013-03-02T00:00:00.000Z,156291,18401.02614,15117312,39642180,-24524868,96.72541605,253.643396,-156.9179799,64167048,410.5613759
2013-03-03T00:00:00.000Z,116052,18974.27842,21929155,48458994,-26529839,188.9597336,417.562765,-228.6030314,74988833,646.1657964
2013-03-04T00:00:00.000Z,116431,20681.94951,19484968,44188631,-24703663,167.3520626,379.5263375,-212.1742749,68892294,591.7006124
2013-03-05T00:00:00.000Z,119013,20946.22508,23191524,47150287,-23958763,194.8654685,396.1776193,-201.3121508,71109050,597.48977
2013-03-06T00:00:00.000Z,139689,21367.6398,20726762,43672876,-22946114,148.3779109,312.6436298,-164.2657188,66618990,476.9093486
2013-03-07T00:00:00.000Z,191098,20907.81074,14553807,45469039,-30915232,76.15886613,237.9357136,-161.7768475,76384271,399.7125611
2013-03-08T00:00:00.000Z,182277,20164.55121,13191267,41593935,-28402668,72.36934446,228.190803,-155.8214585,69996603,384.0122616
2013-03-09T00:00:00.000Z,135881,18246.30449,16994288,35462772,-18468484,125.067434,260.9840375,-135.9166035,53931256,396.900641
2013-03-10T00:00:00.000Z,143981,18296.95548,14117323,32700670,-18583347,98.04990242,227.1179531,-129.0680506,51284017,356.1860037
2013-03-11T00:00:00.000Z,176321,21634.62377,21224095,43299766,-22075671,120.3719069,245.5735051,-125.2015982,65375437,370.7751034
2013-03-12T00:00:00.000Z,150753,21108.71746,16790300,42341800,-25551500,111.3762247,280.8687058,-169.4924811,67893300,450.3611868
2013-03-13T00:00:00.000Z,189646,20993.81849,-217956,39604639,-39822595,-1.149278129,208.8345602,-209.9838383,79427234,418.8183985
2013-03-14T00:00:00.000Z,228557,21629.08995,5867780,39743933,-33876153,25.67315812,173.8906837,-148.2175256,73620086,322.1082093
2013-03-15T00:00:00.000Z,231779,19749.4103,9352271,39961133,-30608862,40.34994974,172.4104988,-132.0605491,70569995,304.4710479
2013-03-16T00:00:00.000Z,250409,18192.22142,7986897,33052443,-25065546,31.89540711,131.9938301,-100.098423,58117989,232.0922531
2013-03-17T00:00:00.000Z,261230,19567.35577,12283229,44085033,-31801804,47.02074417,168.7594572,-121.738713,75886837,290.4981702
2013-03-18T00:00:00.000Z,167390,20693.0092,14228775,41861248,-27632473,85.0037338,250.0821315,-165.0783978,69493721,415.1605293
2013-03-19T00:00:00.000Z,204311,21091.21377,9465520,45998641,-36533121,46.32897886,225.1403057,-178.8113268,82531762,403.9516326
2013-03-20T00:00:00.000Z,227495,21858.81467,15328297,39938235,-24609938,67.37861052,175.5565397,-108.1779292,64548173,283.7344689
2013-03-21T00:00:00.000Z,266068,20640.97689,9960565,39259633,-29299068,37.43616294,147.5548845,-110.1187215,68558701,257.673606
2013-03-22T00:00:00.000Z,263199,20019.12658,12233640,39923159,-27689519,46.48057173,151.6843111,-105.2037394,67612678,256.8880505
2013-03-23T00:00:00.000Z,170544,17675.47611,6305603,34621672,-28316069,36.97346726,203.0072709,-166.0338036,62937741,369.0410744
2013-03-24T00:00:00.000Z,145908,18402.7657,14870797,37780320,-22909523,101.9189969,258.932478,-157.0134811,60689843,415.9459591
2013-03-25T00:00:00.000Z,129448,20709.6653,19582389,44417640,-24835251,151.2761031,343.1311415,-191.8550383,69252891,534.9861798
2013-03-26T00:00:00.000Z,123586,21149.2618,22188817,41016087,-18827270,179.5415096,331.882956,-152.3414464,59843357,484.2244024
2013-03-27T00:00:00.000Z,153829,20882.74241,16597162,40128544,-23531382,107.8935831,260.8646224,-152.9710393,63659926,413.8356617
2013-03-28T00:00:00.000Z,132800,19760.59632,16115640,40888615,-24772975,121.3527108,307.8961973,-186.5434864,65661590,494.4396837
2013-03-29T00:00:00.000Z,153490,19033.0567,4405082,37378130,-32973048,28.69947228,243.5215975,-214.8221252,70351178,458.3437227
2013-03-30T00:00:00.000Z,148696,17502.68327,8973422,33901100,-24927678,60.34743369,227.9893205,-167.6418868,58828778,395.6312073
2013-03-31T00:00:00.000Z,121967,16744.94648,15083318,38649669,-23566351,123.6672051,316.8862807,-193.2190757,62216020,510.1053564
2013-04-01T00:00:00.000Z,129555,20910.79854,12704623,37798850,-25094227,98.0635483,291.7590985,-193.6955502,62893077,485.4546486
2013-04-02T00:00:00.000Z,125318,21001.52229,20305120,42375463,-22070343,162.0287588,338.143467,-176.1147082,64445806,514.2581752
2013-04-03T00:00:00.000Z,128908,21754.49811,21296014,41711469,-20415455,165.2031992,323.5754879,-158.3722888,62126924,481.9477767
2013-04-04T00:00:00.000Z,134253,22452.59988,23320808,42881521,-19560713,173.7079097,319.4082888,-145.7003791,62442234,465.108668
2013-04-05T00:00:00.000Z,125671,20354.67657,22953348,41390596,-18437248,182.6463385,329.3567808,-146.7104423,59827844,476.0672231
2013-04-06T00:00:00.000Z,59678,10606.16925,7741817,16785713,-9043896,129.7264821,281.271373,-151.5448909,25829609,432.8162639
2013-04-07T00:00:00.000Z,124245,19112.82976,21115363,40439367,-19324004,169.9493984,325.4808403,-155.5314419,59763371,481.0122822
2013-04-08T00:00:00.000Z,136579,22307.4411,21389394,42842528,-21453134,156.6082194,313.6831284,-157.074909,64295662,470.7580375
2013-04-09T00:00:00.000Z,134423,22068.71586,22107989,42501050,-20393061,164.4658206,316.1739434,-151.7081229,62894111,467.8820663
2013-04-10T00:00:00.000Z,124363,21805.92754,24675367,44595769,-19920402,198.414054,358.5935447,-160.1794907,64516171,518.7730354
2013-04-11T00:00:00.000Z,121243,20517.76215,20708863,42066654,-21357791,170.8046073,346.9615071,-176.1568998,63424445,523.1184068
2013-04-12T00:00:00.000Z,113580,19817.82583,20997428,38490934,-17493506,184.8690615,338.8883078,-154.0192463,55984440,492.9075541
2013-04-13T00:00:00.000Z,110284,17755.53901,21029336,36964953,-15935617,190.6834718,335.1796543,-144.4961826,52900570,479.6758369
2013-04-14T00:00:00.000Z,117642,18362.47415,20034253,37033733,-16999480,170.2984733,314.8002669,-144.5017936,54033213,459.3020605
2013-04-15T00:00:00.000Z,129821,21157.39015,17675846,39226825,-21550979,136.1555218,302.16086,-166.0053381,60777804,468.1661981
2013-04-16T00:00:00.000Z,123167,20248.48002,20710330,38868360,-18158030,168.1483677,315.5744639,-147.4260963,57026390,463.0005602
2013-04-17T00:00:00.000Z,127826,21021.83622,22568136,42213248,-19645112,176.553565,330.2399199,-153.6863549,61858360,483.9262748
2013-04-18T00:00:00.000Z,120069,20718.4193,21772525,41009776,-19237251,181.3334416,341.5517411,-160.2182995,60247027,501.7700406
2013-04-19T00:00:00.000Z,116001,18775.23236,17842211,37922287,-20080076,153.8108378,326.913449,-173.1026112,58002363,500.0160602
2013-04-20T00:00:00.000Z,132908,17375.6118,18762572,35721595,-16959023,141.1696211,268.7693367,-127.5997156,52680618,396.3690523
2013-04-21T00:00:00.000Z,125122,18727.91308,20549758,35401528,-14851770,164.2377679,282.9360784,-118.6983104,50253298,401.6343888
2013-04-22T00:00:00.000Z,127173,21419.67113,22338863,44604368,-22265505,175.6572779,350.7377195,-175.0804416,66869873,525.8181611
2013-04-23T00:00:00.000Z,122132,20751.20361,22606892,44770611,-22163719,185.102119,366.5755985,-181.4734795,66934330,548.049078
2013-04-24T00:00:00.000Z,121555,21316.36851,20980804,39860108,-18879304,172.6033812,327.9182921,-155.3149109,58739412,483.2332031
2013-04-25T00:00:00.000Z,117616,20488.86561,17349673,43719482,-26369809,147.5111634,371.7137294,-224.202566,70089291,595.9162954
2013-04-26T00:00:00.000Z,110761,19213.43087,21023662,38785620,-17761958,189.8110526,350.1739782,-160.3629256,56547578,510.5369038
2013-04-27T00:00:00.000Z,105115,17210.95091,17744458,35146641,-17402183,168.809951,334.3637064,-165.5537554,52548824,499.9174618
2013-04-28T00:00:00.000Z,108239,18373.92141,22298156,37037722,-14739566,206.0085182,342.1846285,-136.1761103,51777288,478.3607387
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HTH
Dario


On May 7, 2013, at 10:22 AM, Jodi Schneider <[email protected]> wrote:

What's the average number of edits per day on English Wikipedia?

This is to frame my dissertation research -- I haven't found "edits per day" in the stats I've looked at [1][2]. 

-Jodi




PS: There are other measures of work and importance I've collected.

From the (highly recommended!) "edit sessions" paper, I get ~14,000 hours per day [3].
Alexa & Pew provide good popularity measures [4,5], and there is of course article count (4.2 million!).


[3] R. Stuart Geiger and Aaron Halfaker. 2013. Using edit sessions to measure participation in Wikipedia. DOI=10.1145/2441776.2441873 

Using the ballpark 425,000 hours/month (for 2012, English Wikipedia). Wow!

[4] Alexa: wikipedia.org is the world's 6th most popular website, 58.11% of traffic to English Wikipedia.

[5] Pew: 53% of American Internet users look for info in Wikipedia (as of May 2010). "The percentage of all American adults who use Wikipedia to look for information has increased from 25% in February 2007 to 42% in May 2010. This translates to 53% of adult internet users. "
http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Wikipedia.aspx

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