English: Top 20 Wikipedians by number of edits, from 2002 to 2025.

Data was gathered using the Wikimedia API, and processed with Python using Pandas, and with Excel.

Data after 2011 was gathered from old revisions of this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits/1%E2%80%931000

The data before 2011 was gathered by downloading the 'past versions' listed on the list of Wikipedians by number of edits page.

The user Ram-Man was excluded due to that account having a high amount of bot edits according to archived lists. Near the start he had the highest edit count.

Maveric's edits from August 2003 to March 2004 shrinks because of a difference in the way the edits are counted in the lists. In August the edits included all namespaces, but in March it included only mainspace edits. See the following two pages:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.php?Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits_until_March_2004&oldid=2774091
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.php?Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits_until_March_2004&oldid=141594063

I haven't investigated it properly, but this may be the reason why there's a big edit count increase and decrease in late 2005. To make the graph more correct, the way the edits are counted should remain consistent.

Data before 2014 is heavily interpolated, where edit data at times comes less than once per month. This means that the dates will not be entirely accurate.

'Placeholder' usernames do not appear in this graph. They are editors who have chosen not to appear in the list of Wikipedians by edit count page.