Top Wikipedia edits

The latest addition to my collection of creative bots is an account that posts a daily summary of pages with the most edits over the previous day.

Please enjoy @wikipediatopedits, a new project to keep track of Wikipedia pages with most edits for previous day.
#wikipedia #stats
— Stefan Bohacek (@[email protected])2023-10-02T17:10:22.238Z

– India at the 2022 Asian Games: 286 revisions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_at_the_2022_Asian_Games
– Bigg Boss (Tamil season 7): 193 revisions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigg_Boss_(Tamil_season_7)
– Operation Gideon (2020): 106 revisions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gideon_(2020)
– List of passenger airlines: 95 revisions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_passenger_airlines
– Tabea Zimmermann: 90 revisions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabea_Zimmermann
– AEL L…
— Top edits on Wikipedia (@[email protected])2023-10-02T17:08:54.645Z

To get this list, I am using Wikipedia’s own API to look for revisions and process them in daily batches. I’ve built a separate service that handles the data processing, which will give me an opportunity to expand it with more ideas in the future.

And it might also be interesting to look at the collected data in a few months, see if there’s a good way to visualize it.