Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits
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This is a list of Wikipedians ordered by total number of edits in English language Wikipedia. The edits in all namespaces are counted.

The list is derived from the database dump as of May 23, 2008 (ref. How to generate the lists).

By clicking Special:Preferences or the "My preferences" link of the wikipedia page menu you may see your most recent edit count.

See also: Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of recent edits

Caveats

The list provides an indication of the contributors to Wikipedia who have made a high number of edits. It is a reference summary only. Therefore it should be taken with a large grain of salt and not used as a measure of individual editors. There are many reasons why a total number of edits usually does not directly indicate quality of work, quality of editor, or significance of contributions.

1. Some editors use automated tools (bots and assisted systems) capable of fixing many simple errors per minute (spelling, links, etc), or that place many informational and other notices in a short time, whilst others work on tasks where these tools are not useful, such as content creation and reworking, manual copyright review, and editorial dispute resolution.
2. Some bot users route their bot edits through separate bot accounts whilst others include them in their own edits.
3. Others may use one or more alternative accounts to segregate their contributions for various other reasons.
4. Many editors who are high on the list perform routine tasks that require less time per edit; conversely, users who create a number of long new pages or make major additions might easily spend a week or more undertaking research before writing any content, and appear much lower on the list.
5. Some editors use the preview button until they are content with their edit; others habitually save a succession of small changes on the way.
6. Earlier versions of the list listed contributions to the article space separately. The current list counts the total number of edits, including talk pages.
7. Many people edit without logging in at all, and many anonymous non-logged in editors regularly make valuable and well-established edits and a huge contribution.
8. Many editors work in areas where edits are less prominent, for example, email-mediated matters such as arbcom-l, mediation, unblock-l, or services such as checkuser.

Consequently, edit count alone does not necessarily reflect the effort put into improving Wikipedia.

Of course, we would like as many people as possible to get involved, including those whose only edit may be to fix a simple typo. Contributors not on this list provide something like half of all edits on Wikipedia. Everyone's contributions are equally welcome.

As of April 2008, the English Wikipedia received 220,949 edits a day; 175,884 registered people (including bots) edited Wikipedia in that month.

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Past versions

See also: Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits archive

List

Note: List generated from data from May 23, 2008. Unflagged bots have not been ranked (some may have been missed) and some users have either removed themselves (feel free to remove yourself if you so desire) or been replaced at their request with Place holder.

Note that rankings reflect only those editors who have not requested to be removed from the list. Therefore an editor's actual ranking may be lower than indicated here.

This list of 4,000 editors (excluding bots) represents 64,561,489 total edits, with an average of 16,140 edits per editor. This accounts for 32.82% of the 196,705,582 total edits made to the English Wikipedia.