The number of edits for the English version of Wikipedia “over 1 billion times”

The total number of edits to the English version of Wikipedia, an Internet encyclopedia jointly edited by volunteers around the world, has exceeded 1 billion.

The total number of edits for the English version of Wikipedia exceeded 1 billion on January 12, 2021, at 1:03 (local time). The billionth edit to commemorate was the addition of an information identifier called authority control to the album page (Death Breathing) released in 1998 by Alex Empire, known as the founding member of the German digital hardcore band Atari Teenage Riot (ATR).

Ser Amantio di Nicolao, a Wikipedia user who has the highest number of edits in mankind at 3.9 million times, made the billionth edit. Most of the edits he applied were delicate editing using semi-automatic editing tools such as Auto WikiBrowser, but he also wrote more than 31,000 articles, and the Washington Post reported a special article in 2018.

In addition, the total number of edits to be 1 billion this time is calculated since the software that runs Wikipedia was converted from UseModWiki to MediaWiki, so the actual total number of edits is expected to add hundreds of thousands of edits to the previous era. to be. Related information can be found here .