How many edits are made to Wikipedia each day?

Technology hard Data from 2024

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Answer in edits. Shorthand like 9m or 1.2bn works.

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.

Where this number comes from

Source Wikimedia Foundation statistics
Figure refers to 2024
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Unit edits

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