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Many editors who are high on the list perform routine tasks that require less time per edit such as reverting vandalism, requesting article protection, warning users, or removing spam; conversely, users who create a number of long new pages or make major additions might easily spend a week or more undertaking research before editing, and appear ...
Users who contribute to Wikipedia by editing its pages are wikipedians, unlike readers who simply read the articles. As of January 2025, over 11.9 million users have edited English Wikipedia at least once. [2] The number of users with more than 5 edits are 3.6 million (37,750 in the last month). [2]
As of February 2015, when about 12,000 editors were eligible to vote in the Wikimedia Stewards Elections, their eligibility was based on their English Wikipedia edit count. It applied to those who had an edit count of at least 600 overall and 50 since August 2014. This was about one-quarter of the number of Wikipedians who had 600 edits overall.
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The Economist reported that the number of contributors with an average of five or more edits per month was relatively constant since 2008 for Wikipedia in other languages at approximately 42,000 editors within narrow seasonal variances of about 2,000 editors up or down. The number of active editors in English Wikipedia, by sharp comparison, was ...
For the highest activity levels, compare the number of registered accounts (48,386,817) against the list at Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits. For example, if there are 47.5 million registered accounts, then the number of edits listed for the editor in row #475 of that table is the 0.001% level.
The order of the top 100 editors has thus been scrambled in order to discourage mass creation by competitive users who seek a high rank, such as to become the #1 Wikipedia editor. For more information the FAQ describes how the list is created, etc..
An edit count is a number stored for each user tallying the total times they have saved a change or changes to a Wikipedia page. The simplest method is to count each edit (regardless of whether it reflects a single change to a page or many) as 1; this is what the server does when generating the efficient counts shown in Special:Preferences.