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Revision activity after March 11, 2020

80 articles measured against their own 36-month baselines · computed Oct 19, 2026 · activity-v1

  • 0 very high
  • 0 high
  • 6 elevated
  • 64 typical
  • 10 unscored

Articles about the disease, public-health measures, institutions, people, and the vocabulary of the pandemic, measured from the day the WHO declared it.

Activity is not proof of bias or misconduct. A sustained rise in edit activity can mean new sources, cleanup, disputes, or plain attention; this page shows the measurements, and the conclusion stays yours.

How to read this

  • Bands are relative to each article’s own past. Every score compares an article’s post-event editing with its own 36-month pre-event baseline. Articles are not ranked against each other; inside a band they are listed alphabetically.
  • Typical is a result. Most articles about most events keep changing at their usual pace. A typical band is the method working, not an absence of data.
  • High is not wrongdoing. The score measures how unusual the pace of editing is, not why it changed. Each row links to the full report with the exact before/after text and the official revision history.
  • Two gates. An article with fewer than 12 months or 20 edits of pre-event history, or one created after the event, is shown as unscored rather than given a low number.
  • Controls. 8 unrelated, long-stable articles are measured the same way and tagged control. They should land typical; where they do not, that is information about the method, not about them.

Elevated revision activity

6 articles · alphabetical
  • Anthony Fauci
    Elevated activityscore 50
    Anthony Fauci: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.0 → after the event 2.2 edits/day
  • Deborah Birx
    Elevated activityscore 37
    Deborah Birx: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.0 → after the event 1.1 edits/day
  • Ivermectin
    Elevated activityscore 41
    Ivermectin: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.2 → after the event 1.0 edits/day
  • Misinformation
    Elevated activityscore 35
    Misinformation: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.1 → after the event 0.4 edits/day
  • Moderna
    Elevated activityscore 38
    Moderna: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.0 → after the event 1.5 edits/day
  • Telehealth
    Elevated activityscore 49
    Telehealth: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.1 → after the event 0.4 edits/day

Typical revision activity

64 articles · alphabetical

Typical is a result: these articles kept changing at roughly their usual pace after the event.

  • Ancient Romecontrol
    Typical activityscore 15
    Ancient Rome: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.4 → after the event 0.2 edits/day
  • Andrew Cuomo
    Typical activityscore 1
    Andrew Cuomo: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.9 → after the event 1.1 edits/day
  • Anti-Chinese sentiment
    Typical activityscore 5
    Anti-Chinese sentiment: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.7 → after the event 1.4 edits/day
  • AstraZeneca
    Typical activityscore 9
    AstraZeneca: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.2 → after the event 1.2 edits/day
  • Basic reproduction number
    Typical activityscore 29
    Basic reproduction number: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.1 → after the event 0.9 edits/day
  • Bill Gates
    Typical activityscore 5
    Bill Gates: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.7 → after the event 0.8 edits/day
  • Biosafety level
    Typical activityscore 6
    Biosafety level: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.1 → after the event 0.2 edits/day
  • Case fatality rate
    Typical activityscore 16
    Case fatality rate: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.0 → after the event 0.3 edits/day
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Typical activityscore 6
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.2 → after the event 0.6 edits/day
  • Conspiracy theory
    Typical activityscore 0
    Conspiracy theory: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.7 → after the event 0.7 edits/day
  • Coronavirus
    Typical activityscore 12
    Coronavirus: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.7 → after the event 1.3 edits/day
  • Diamond Princess (ship)
    Typical activityscore 10
    Diamond Princess (ship): monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.3 → after the event 0.4 edits/day
  • Distance education
    Typical activityscore 8
    Distance education: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.2 → after the event 0.4 edits/day
  • Donald Trump
    Typical activityscore 1
    Donald Trump: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 9.0 → after the event 13.4 edits/day
  • Epidemic
    Typical activityscore 1
    Epidemic: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.1 → after the event 0.3 edits/day
  • Epidemiology
    Typical activityscore 0
    Epidemiology: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.1 → after the event 0.2 edits/day
  • Food and Drug Administration
    Typical activityscore 1
    Food and Drug Administration: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.2 → after the event 0.2 edits/day
  • Great Barrier Reefcontrol
    Typical activityscore 1
    Great Barrier Reef: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.1 → after the event 0.1 edits/day
  • Haikucontrol
    Typical activityscore 1
    Haiku: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.3 → after the event 0.4 edits/day
  • Hand sanitizer
    Typical activityscore 0
    Hand sanitizer: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.2 → after the event 1.3 edits/day
  • Hand washing
    Typical activityscore 1
    Hand washing: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.2 → after the event 0.7 edits/day
  • Herd immunity
    Typical activityscore 3
    Herd immunity: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.1 → after the event 0.6 edits/day
  • Hydroxychloroquine
    Typical activityscore 15
    Hydroxychloroquine: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.1 → after the event 2.2 edits/day
  • Imperial College London
    Typical activityscore 1
    Imperial College London: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 1.0 → after the event 0.6 edits/day
  • Influenza
    Typical activityscore 0
    Influenza: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.3 → after the event 0.4 edits/day
  • Jacinda Ardern
    Typical activityscore 1
    Jacinda Ardern: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 1.5 → after the event 1.5 edits/day
  • Johann Sebastian Bachcontrol
    Typical activityscore 3
    Johann Sebastian Bach: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.4 → after the event 0.5 edits/day
  • Johns Hopkins University
    Typical activityscore 2
    Johns Hopkins University: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.3 → after the event 0.4 edits/day
  • Jupitercontrol
    Typical activityscore 16
    Jupiter: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.2 → after the event 0.7 edits/day
  • Lockdown
    Typical activityscore 11
    Lockdown: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.1 → after the event 0.8 edits/day
  • Lombardy
    Typical activityscore 2
    Lombardy: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.3 → after the event 0.4 edits/day
  • Messenger RNA
    Typical activityscore 0
    Messenger RNA: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.1 → after the event 0.2 edits/day
  • Mitochondriacontrol
    Typical activityscore 5
    Mitochondria: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.3 → after the event 0.6 edits/day
  • Pandemic
    Typical activityscore 16
    Pandemic: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.4 → after the event 3.2 edits/day
  • Personal protective equipment
    Typical activityscore 1
    Personal protective equipment: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.0 → after the event 0.2 edits/day
  • Pfizer
    Typical activityscore 12
    Pfizer: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.2 → after the event 1.0 edits/day
  • Photosynthesiscontrol
    Typical activityscore 4
    Photosynthesis: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.2 → after the event 0.1 edits/day
  • Polymerase chain reaction
    Typical activityscore 3
    Polymerase chain reaction: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.2 → after the event 0.4 edits/day
  • Public health
    Typical activityscore 2
    Public health: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.3 → after the event 0.4 edits/day
  • Pythagorean theoremcontrol
    Typical activityscore 4
    Pythagorean theorem: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.1 → after the event 0.2 edits/day
  • Quarantine
    Typical activityscore 6
    Quarantine: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.2 → after the event 1.2 edits/day
  • Recession
    Typical activityscore 30
    Recession: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.1 → after the event 0.3 edits/day
  • Remdesivir
    Typical activityscore 31
    Remdesivir: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.1 → after the event 2.8 edits/day
  • Remote work
    Typical activityscore 33
    Remote work: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.1 → after the event 0.5 edits/day
  • SARS
    Typical activityscore 5
    SARS: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.4 → after the event 1.0 edits/day
  • Shi Zhengli
    Typical activityscore 14
    Shi Zhengli: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.1 → after the event 0.8 edits/day
  • Social distancing
    Typical activityscore 28
    Social distancing: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.1 → after the event 3.6 edits/day
  • Spanish flu
    Typical activityscore 2
    Spanish flu: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.5 → after the event 2.2 edits/day
  • Supply chain
    Typical activityscore 7
    Supply chain: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.1 → after the event 0.3 edits/day
  • Surgical mask
    Typical activityscore 33
    Surgical mask: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.1 → after the event 1.0 edits/day
  • Sweden
    Typical activityscore 6
    Sweden: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.6 → after the event 0.5 edits/day
  • Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
    Typical activityscore 7
    Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.3 → after the event 1.2 edits/day
  • Toilet paper
    Typical activityscore 6
    Toilet paper: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.1 → after the event 0.2 edits/day
  • Unemployment
    Typical activityscore 4
    Unemployment: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.4 → after the event 0.4 edits/day
  • Vaccine
    Typical activityscore 1
    Vaccine: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.3 → after the event 0.5 edits/day
  • Vaccine hesitancy
    Typical activityscore 0
    Vaccine hesitancy: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.7 → after the event 0.4 edits/day
  • Ventilator
    Typical activityscore 29
    Ventilator: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.0 → after the event 0.6 edits/day
  • Virus
    Typical activityscore 4
    Virus: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.2 → after the event 0.7 edits/day
  • Wet market
    Typical activityscore 31
    Wet market: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.1 → after the event 1.9 edits/day
  • World Health Organization
    Typical activityscore 3
    World Health Organization: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.8 → after the event 1.4 edits/day
  • Wuhan
    Typical activityscore 3
    Wuhan: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 1.0 → after the event 0.8 edits/day
  • Xi Jinping
    Typical activityscore 5
    Xi Jinping: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 1.9 → after the event 1.0 edits/day
  • Zhong Nanshan
    Typical activityscore 4
    Zhong Nanshan: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.1 → after the event 0.3 edits/day
  • Zoonosis
    Typical activityscore 2
    Zoonosis: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.3 → after the event 0.6 edits/day

Unscored

10 articles · alphabetical

Unscored, not low: an article with fewer than 12 months or 20 edits of pre-event history, or one created after the event, has no defensible baseline to measure against.

  • Anders Tegnell
    Created after eventunscored—
    Anders Tegnell: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline — → after the event 0.1 edits/day
  • BioNTech
    Created after eventunscored—
    BioNTech: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline — → after the event 0.2 edits/day
  • Christian Drosten
    Created after eventunscored—
    Christian Drosten: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline — → after the event 0.1 edits/day
  • Contact tracing
    Insufficient baselineunscored—
    Contact tracing: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.0 → after the event 0.4 edits/day
  • COVID-19
    Insufficient baselineunscored—
    COVID-19: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 1.1 → after the event 14.4 edits/day
  • Gain-of-function research
    Created after eventunscored—
    Gain-of-function research: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline — → after the event 0.3 edits/day
  • N95 respirator
    Insufficient baselineunscored—
    N95 respirator: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.0 → after the event 1.2 edits/day
  • Neil Ferguson (epidemiologist)
    Insufficient baselineunscored—
    Neil Ferguson (epidemiologist): monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.1 → after the event 1.1 edits/day
  • Peter Daszak
    Created after eventunscored—
    Peter Daszak: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline — → after the event 0.2 edits/day
  • Wuhan Institute of Virology
    Insufficient baselineunscored—
    Wuhan Institute of Virology: monthly edits, 48 months around the event
    baseline 0.2 → after the event 1.2 edits/day

Why these articles

The set is curated by hand as coarse groups, not chosen by score: it is meant to sample the topic’s neighborhood, including articles expected to be quiet.

Disease and science16 articles
The virus, the disease, candidate treatments, and the epidemiology concepts that entered everyday use.
Public-health measures14 articles
The practices and equipment that became daily life during the pandemic.
Institutions and places14 articles
Health agencies, research institutions, vaccine makers, and early epicenters.
People14 articles
Biographies of officials, scientists, and heads of government named in pandemic coverage.
Society and terminology14 articles
Economic, social, and definitional articles the pandemic pulled into the news.
Controls8 articles
Unrelated, long-stable articles measured with the identical method. They should land typical; they are here so the method can be checked against its own misses.

Data

Download the JSON: data/events/2020-03-11.json — every entry with its status, score, monthly edit counts, edit rates, and the exact revision analyzed. Rebuilt weekly from the public API.

Derived from public Wikipedia revision data via the Wikimedia APIs; article titles and statistics are shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Method: how the score is computed (activity-v1).