User:Katalaveno/TBE
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[edit] Wikipeida: Edit growth measured in time between edits
I was interested in getting an idea of the overall edit growth on Wikipedia in the last few years. One way I thought to do it was to take a look the time between every 10,000,000th edit. On March 22, 2008, I noticed in the URL of the diffs I was seeing that the oldid value had just passed 200,000,000. So, I though that would give me a nice, round 20 data points. At some point I will create a graph for Table 1.
[edit] Table 1: Time between edits (incrementing by 10,000,000)
From this chart I learned that by around January 2007, the time between every 10,000,000th edit was about 6 weeks and has hovered around that mark every since. Perhaps, when I get a bit more time, I will divide up the first 10,000,000 edits by 20 also and look at the time between every 500,000th edit.
| Edit Number (id) | Link to Edit | Date | Time between edits |
| 1 | [1] | 10:25, 2002 January 26 | |
| 10,000,000 | [2] | 10:26, 2005 February 6 | 963 days (~137 weeks) |
| 20,000,000 | [3] | 16:03, 2005 July 31 | 175 days ( ~25 weeks) |
| 30,000,000* | [4] | 04:23, 2005 December 3 | 125 days ( ~17 weeks) |
| 40,000,000 | [5] | 07:42, 2006 February 17 | 76 days ( ~10 weeks) |
| 50,000,000 | [6] | 19:54, 2006 April 24 | 66 days ( ~9 weeks) |
| 60,000,000* | [7] | 10:22, 2006 June 22 | 59 days ( ~8 weeks) |
| 70,000,000 | [8] | 08:10, 2006 August 16 | 55 days ( ~7 weeks) |
| 80,000,000* | [9] | 05:19, 2006 October 7 | 52 days ( ~7 weeks) |
| 90,000,000 | [10] | 06:17, 2006 November 25 | 49 days ( ~7 weeks) |
| 100,000,000 | [11] | 11:12, 2007 January 11 | 47 days ( ~6 weeks) |
| 110,000,000 | [12] | 00:57, 2007 February 22 | 42 days ( ~6 weeks) |
| 120,000,000 | [13] | 12:11, 2007 April 3 | 40 days ( ~5 weeks) |
| 130,000,000 | [14] | 22:26, 2007 May 10 | 37 days ( ~5 weeks) |
| 140,000,000* | [15] | 18:30, 2007 June 22 | 43 days ( ~6 weeks) |
| 150,000,000 | [16] | 12:37, 2007 August 8 | 47 days ( ~6 weeks) |
| 160,000,000 | [17] | 08:34, 2007 September 24 | 47 days ( ~6 weeks) |
| 170,000,000 | [18] | 20:55, 2007 November 7 | 44 days ( ~6 weeks) |
| 180,000,000 | [19] | 15:32, 2007 December 24 | 47 days ( ~6 weeks) |
| 190,000,000 | [20] | 14:04, 2008 February 8 | 46 days ( ~6 weeks) |
| 200,000,000 | [21] | 00:24, 2008 March 22 | 43 days ( ~6 weeks) |
*The database did not find the text of this edit. The next edit that the database found is listed instead.
[edit] Table 2: Time between edits (incrementing by powers of 10)
For those people partial to powers of ten, here is another chart, similar to the above one (but not really that useful for drawing any conclusions about editing growth).
| Power | Edit Number (id) | Link to Edit | Date | Time between edits |
| 100 | 1 | [22] | 10:25, 2002 January 26 | |
| 101 | 10* | [23] | 10:35, 2002 January 26 | 0 days (0 weeks) |
| 102 | 100* | [24] | 12:55, 2002 January 26 | 0 days ( 0 weeks) |
| 103 | 1,000 | [25] | 18:26, 2002 January 27 | 1 day ( 0 weeks) |
| 104 | 10,000 | [26] | 20:47, 2002 February 12 | 2 days ( 0 weeks) |
| 105 | 100,000 | [27] | 18:52, 2002 June 19 | 16 days (2 weeks) |
| 106 | 1,000,000* | [28] | 04:32, 2003 June 5 | 127 days (18 weeks) |
| 107 | 10,000,000 | [29] | 10:26, 2005 February 6 | 963 days (137 weeks) |
| 108 | 100,000,000 | [30] | 11:12, 2007 January 11 | 700 days (100 weeks) |
| 10~8.3 | 200,000,000 | [31] | 00:24, 2008 March 22 (current) | 436 days (62 weeks) |
*The database did not find the text of this edit. The next edit that the database found is listed instead.
