How many edits are made to Wikipedia each day?
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The answer
350,000 edits
Roughly 350K.
Wikipedia receives around 350,000 edits a day across all languages — about four every second. A significant share are made by bots doing maintenance, and the human editing community is far smaller than most people assume.
How to get close to this number
Work from articles and edit frequency. There are tens of millions of articles across all languages, and an article is edited perhaps a few times a year on average. Tens of millions divided by a few hundred days gives a figure in the hundreds of thousands daily.
The bot share in the explanation is the important qualifier: a significant portion are automated maintenance edits — fixing links, standardising formatting, updating templates. Edit counts measure activity on the encyclopedia rather than human contribution, and separating the two changes the picture substantially.
The human community is far smaller than people assume, which is the fact worth carrying. A project serving billions of readers is maintained by a core of a few tens of thousands of regular editors worldwide. The English Wikipedia question on this site notes the scale of the output; this one notes how few people produce it.
Where this number comes from
| Source | Wikimedia Foundation statistics |
|---|---|
| Figure refers to | 2024 |
| Last checked | |
| Unit | edits |
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