Wikipedia edit statistics, live

Measured right now from the Wikimedia edit stream — not an estimate.

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Every number above updates every few seconds from Wikimedia EventStreams — the public firehose of every change saved on Wikipedia. Across its ~300 language editions, Wikipedia typically receives a few hundred edits every minute, which works out to roughly half a million edits on a typical day. The pace follows the sun: European editions peak in European daytime, East Asian editions in theirs, and automated bots can briefly push the rate far above its usual range at any hour.

What's being edited right now

Geo-located article edits in the last minute, by language edition.

See the edits on a globe

Every geo-located edit counted here lights up, live, on a realistic 3D globe — where the article's subject actually is on Earth. It is free, open source, and strangely calming.

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Notes on the numbers

An "edit" here is a saved change to an article (the main namespace), including those made by bots. Rates are one-minute rolling counts, so they move constantly. Only edits to articles with map coordinates — about a fifth of Wikipedia — appear in the geo count and on the globe. This page holds one lightweight connection to the same feed the globe uses; nothing is sampled or cached.