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Wikipedia

Monthly Wikipedia figures since 2015: edits and editors (humans against bots, editors grouped by how much they edit), bytes added, readership, and pageviews for articles on AI labs, models, tools and concepts, with non-AI controls. Human edits and human pageviews stay near flat; the clear falls are in readers counted as unique devices and in the core group of editors who make 100+ edits a month.

cadence · monthly 55 series updated 5 Sep 2026 wikimedia.org ↗
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All edits

13.4M +24.2% yr as of Aug 2026
02.0M4.0M6.0M8.0M10.0M12.0M14.0M201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro

Edits

This counts edits to articles in every language of Wikipedia.

Human edits

6.7M +0.3% yr as of Aug 2026
02.0M4.0M6.0M8.0M10.0M201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro

Bot edits

5.8M +98.2% yr as of Aug 2026
01.0M2.0M3.0M4.0M5.0M6.0M201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro

Anonymous edits

863k −27.4% yr as of Aug 2026
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Human share of edits derived

49.6% −19.2% yr as of Aug 2026
010203040506070201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro
Human edits divided by all edits. The rest come from bots and from people who did not sign in.

Editors

English Wikipedia only. We count each person once, so the parts do not add up to the total.

All editors

227k −14.7% yr as of Aug 2026
0100k200k300k400k201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro

Registered editors

89.9k −0.2% yr as of Aug 2026
020.0k40.0k60.0k80.0k100k120k201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro

Anonymous editors

137k −22.2% yr as of Aug 2026
050.0k100k150k200k250k300k201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro

New registered accounts

105k +28.7% yr as of Aug 2026
050.0k100k150k200k250k300k201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro

Readership

The pageviews cover every Wikimedia project. The device counts cover English Wikipedia only, so the two lines measure different groups.

Human pageviews

13.2B −8.3% yr as of Aug 2026
05.0B10.0B15.0B20.0B201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro

Unique devices (en)

783M −20.6% yr as of Aug 2026
0200M400M600M800M1.0B201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro

Editors by activity

English Wikipedia only. We group the editors who have an account by the number of edits they made to articles that month.

Editors · 1–4 edits/mo

60.6k +0.3% yr as of Aug 2026
020.0k40.0k60.0k80.0k201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro

Editors · 5–24 edits/mo

18.6k −1.6% yr as of Aug 2026
05.0k10.0k15.0k20.0k25.0k201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro

Editors · 25–99 edits/mo

6.4k −1.3% yr as of Aug 2026
01.0k2.0k3.0k4.0k5.0k6.0k7.0k201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro

Editors · 100+ edits/mo

4.2k +2.0% yr as of Aug 2026
01.0k2.0k3.0k4.0k201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro

Contribution volume

English Wikipedia only. We count the edits that people with an account made to articles.

Human edits (en)

2.7M +8.3% yr as of Aug 2026
0500k1.0M1.5M2.0M2.5M3.0M201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro

Pages edited

1.1M +17.6% yr as of Aug 2026
0200k400k600k800k1.0M1.2M201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro

Net bytes added

357M +11.4% yr as of Aug 2026
050.0M100M150M200M250M300M350M201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro

Bytes added per edit derived

129.8 +2.9% yr as of Aug 2026
020406080100120201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro
The net bytes people added, divided by their edits. English Wikipedia only.

Article views · labs & models

ChatGPT

1.6M −61.2% yr as of Aug 2026
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Claude

152k +107.7% yr as of Aug 2026
050.0k100k150k200k250k300k350k201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro
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Google Gemini

67.9k ×43 yr as of Aug 2026
050.0k100k150k200k201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro
This line includes the Bard years: Wikipedia called the article “Bard (chatbot)” until February 2024.
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Grok

49.0k −52.5% yr as of Aug 2026
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DeepSeek

60.0k −51.0% yr as of Aug 2026
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OpenAI

173k −45.6% yr as of Aug 2026
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Anthropic

204k +64.7% yr as of Aug 2026
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xAI

49.6k −3.1% yr as of Aug 2026
020.0k40.0k60.0k80.0k100k120k201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro
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Perplexity AI

66.4k −81.9% yr as of Aug 2026
050.0k100k150k200k250k300k350k201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro
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Mistral AI

26.5k +9.0% yr as of Aug 2026
010.0k20.0k30.0k40.0k50.0k60.0k201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro
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Qwen

38.6k +104.8% yr as of Aug 2026
010.0k20.0k30.0k40.0k201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro
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Llama

16.0k −36.6% yr as of Aug 2026
010.0k20.0k30.0k40.0k50.0k201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro
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Nvidia

154k −33.7% yr as of Aug 2026
0100k200k300k400k500k600k201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro
⚠ People also read this article for graphics cards for games: it drew about 600k views a year in 2016. Only the growth is about AI.
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Hugging Face

103k +342.6% yr as of Aug 2026
020.0k40.0k60.0k80.0k100k201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro
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Article views · coding tools

Cursor

65.6k +65.1% yr as of Aug 2026
020.0k40.0k60.0k80.0k100k120k140k160k180k201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro
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GitHub Copilot

8.0k −38.1% yr as of Aug 2026
010.0k20.0k30.0k40.0k201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro
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Microsoft Copilot

32.5k −46.6% yr as of Aug 2026
020.0k40.0k60.0k80.0k201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro
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Devin

8.7k +24.0% yr as of Aug 2026
02.0k4.0k6.0k8.0k10.0k12.0k201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro
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Article views · concepts

Artificial intelligence

355k +19.7% yr as of Aug 2026
0100k200k300k400k500k600k700k201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro
This article is old: it drew 2–3M views a year from 2016 to 2021. Read the rise against that level, not against zero.
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Large language model

91.2k −17.0% yr as of Aug 2026
020.0k40.0k60.0k80.0k100k120k140k160k201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro
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Artificial general intelligence

46.8k −38.3% yr as of Aug 2026
050.0k100k150k200k201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro
This article is also old: it drew about 250k views a year from 2018 to 2021. The 2023 peak stands on top of that level.
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Generative AI

61.0k −19.2% yr as of Aug 2026
020.0k40.0k60.0k80.0k100k201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro
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Retrieval-augmented generation

34.0k −18.7% yr as of Aug 2026
010.0k20.0k30.0k40.0k50.0k201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro
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Model Context Protocol

35.9k −32.2% yr as of Aug 2026
010.0k20.0k30.0k40.0k50.0k60.0k201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro
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Prompt engineering

11.8k −42.5% yr as of Aug 2026
020.0k40.0k60.0k80.0k100k201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro
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Transformer architecture

52.5k −23.1% yr as of Aug 2026
020.0k40.0k60.0k80.0k100k201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro
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Vibe coding

38.1k −56.5% yr as of Aug 2026
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Sora

18.0k +42.8% yr as of Aug 2026
020.0k40.0k60.0k80.0k201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro
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Midjourney

14.8k −50.5% yr as of Aug 2026
050.0k100k150k200k250k201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro
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Stable Diffusion

19.5k −33.0% yr as of Aug 2026
020.0k40.0k60.0k80.0k100k120k140k160k180k201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro
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Article views · backlash & displacement

AI slop

76.6k +31.0% yr as of Aug 2026
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Stack Overflow

10.4k +26.5% yr as of Aug 2026
010.0k20.0k30.0k40.0k50.0k60.0k70.0k201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro
This line shows attention to Stack Overflow itself, not to AI. It reached its peak in July 2021.
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Technological unemployment

3.5k −41.8% yr as of Aug 2026
02.0k4.0k6.0k8.0k10.0k12.0k14.0k16.0k18.0k201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Copilot GAClaude 3Gemini 2.5 Pro
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Article views · non-AI controls

These articles are the controls. They carry the same site-wide fall in traffic and the same school-year pattern as every AI article on this page.

World War II (control)

587k −40.1% yr as of Aug 2026
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Association football (control)

144k −12.0% yr as of Aug 2026
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Photosynthesis (control)

32.7k −17.2% yr as of Aug 2026
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Figures

SeriesLatestChangeMinMaxCoverage
All edits13.4M+24.2% yr8.5M13.9MJan 2015 — Aug 2026
Human edits6.7M+0.3% yr5.5M10.3MJan 2015 — Aug 2026
Bot edits5.8M+98.2% yr976k5.8MJan 2015 — Aug 2026
Anonymous edits863k−27.4% yr834k2.1MJan 2015 — Aug 2026
All editors227k−14.7% yr225k430kJan 2015 — Aug 2026
Registered editors89.9k−0.2% yr89.5k121kJan 2015 — Aug 2026
Anonymous editors137k−22.2% yr136k319kJan 2015 — Aug 2026
Human pageviews13.2B−8.3% yr12.7B19.9BJul 2015 — Aug 2026
New registered accounts105k+28.7% yr74.7k307kJan 2015 — Aug 2026
Editors · 1–4 edits/mo60.6k+0.3% yr59.7k86.0kJan 2015 — Aug 2026
Editors · 5–24 edits/mo18.6k−1.6% yr18.6k24.3kJan 2015 — Aug 2026
Editors · 25–99 edits/mo6.4k−1.3% yr5.5k7.0kJan 2015 — Aug 2026
Editors · 100+ edits/mo4.2k+2.0% yr3.1k4.4kJan 2015 — Aug 2026
Human edits (en)2.7M+8.3% yr1.9M2.9MJan 2015 — Aug 2026
Pages edited1.1M+17.6% yr624k1.2MJan 2015 — Aug 2026
Net bytes added357M+11.4% yr199M357MJan 2015 — Aug 2026
Unique devices (en)783M−20.6% yr552M1.1BJan 2016 — Aug 2026
ChatGPT1.6M−61.2% yr648k8.0MDec 2022 — Aug 2026
Claude152k+107.7% yr1.9k334kJan 2024 — Aug 2026
Google Gemini67.9k×43 yr1.2k201kFeb 2023 — Aug 2026
Grok49.0k−52.5% yr14.2k382kNov 2023 — Aug 2026
DeepSeek60.0k−51.0% yr242.7MNov 2024 — Aug 2026
OpenAI173k−45.6% yr12.4k1.3MDec 2015 — Aug 2026
Anthropic204k+64.7% yr74736kJul 2015 — Aug 2026
xAI49.6k−3.1% yr3.4k129kApr 2023 — Aug 2026
Perplexity AI66.4k−81.9% yr36.2k367kJan 2024 — Aug 2026
Mistral AI26.5k+9.0% yr4.0k60.0kDec 2023 — Aug 2026
Qwen38.6k+104.8% yr12438.6kNov 2024 — Aug 2026
Llama16.0k−36.6% yr10.3k52.9kMar 2023 — Aug 2026
Nvidia154k−33.7% yr38.2k624kJul 2015 — Aug 2026
Hugging Face103k+342.6% yr1.4k103kAug 2022 — Aug 2026
Cursor65.6k+65.1% yr484182kJan 2025 — Aug 2026
GitHub Copilot8.0k−38.1% yr4.4k42.2kJul 2021 — Aug 2026
Microsoft Copilot32.5k−46.6% yr2492.7kMar 2023 — Aug 2026
Devin8.7k+24.0% yr2.5k12.9kMar 2024 — Aug 2026
Artificial intelligence355k+19.7% yr140k716kJul 2015 — Aug 2026
Large language model91.2k−17.0% yr376159kFeb 2023 — Aug 2026
Artificial general intelligence46.8k−38.3% yr11.2k217kJul 2015 — Aug 2026
Generative AI61.0k−19.2% yr47106kOct 2022 — Aug 2026
Retrieval-augmented generation34.0k−18.7% yr25848.5kNov 2023 — Aug 2026
Model Context Protocol35.9k−32.2% yr062.4kMar 2025 — Aug 2026
Prompt engineering11.8k−42.5% yr2996.0kOct 2021 — Aug 2026
Transformer architecture52.5k−23.1% yr17112kAug 2019 — Aug 2026
Vibe coding38.1k−56.5% yr38.1k408kMar 2025 — Aug 2026
Sora18.0k+42.8% yr10.5k91.4kFeb 2024 — Aug 2026
Midjourney14.8k−50.5% yr771245kJun 2022 — Aug 2026
Stable Diffusion19.5k−33.0% yr2.1k172kAug 2022 — Aug 2026
AI slop76.6k+31.0% yr297.9kMay 2024 — Aug 2026
Stack Overflow10.4k+26.5% yr7.5k74.8kJul 2015 — Aug 2026
Technological unemployment3.5k−41.8% yr3.5k18.0kJul 2015 — Aug 2026
World War II (control)587k−40.1% yr555k1.3MJul 2015 — Aug 2026
Association football (control)144k−12.0% yr126k482kJul 2015 — Aug 2026
Photosynthesis (control)32.7k−17.2% yr32.7k184kJul 2015 — Aug 2026
Human share of edits49.6%−19.2% yr47.4%74.4%Jan 2015 — Aug 2026
Bytes added per edit129.8+2.9% yr91.8131.5Jan 2015 — Aug 2026
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