Wikipedia, measured yesterday
Every figure below was counted from the live feed, not estimated from a report. Quote any of them; they carry their own date.
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How these are measured
The site holds one open connection to Wikimedia EventStreams, the public feed carrying every change saved on Wikipedia, and counts events as they arrive. Days are UTC calendar days, counted end to end. An edit is a saved change to an article — the main namespace — in any language edition, and bot edits are included because they are edits. Nothing here is sampled, cached or projected from a smaller number.
A day the server did not watch from its first minute is never published: a restart would leave a partial count that reads like a real one. If a figure is missing below, that is why.
Taking the numbers
The same figures in machine-readable form, updated once a day and free to use:
| What | Where |
|---|---|
| Yesterday's facts, one sentence each | facts.json |
| Every day recorded, up to 90 of them | moments |
| The same history as a feed | moments.xml |
| Every day as a spreadsheet | history.csv |
| Weekly totals | weeks.json |
The CSV carries one row per day with all_edits,
located_edits, new_articles, new_articles_by_people,
geotagged_photos and the day's most-edited place. Where a day was not watched
from its first minute the edit count is left empty and all_edits_complete reads
false, because a short count is worse than a missing one.
Released under CC0: no permission needed, no attribution required. A link back is welcome but not a condition. If you are quoting a figure in something durable, take the date with it — these change daily.
See it happening
Each of those edits is a person, somewhere, changing something. The live globe of Wikipedia edits draws the ones about places, where the place is on Earth, seconds after the edit is saved. There is also the live pace, per minute and per day, and the daily digest of what the planet edited.