Revision activity after March 11, 2020

13 articles measured against their own 36-month baselines · computed Sep 3, 2026 · activity-v1

0 very high
0 high
2 elevated
11 typical
0 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

2 articles · alphabetical

Anthony Fauci
Elevated activityscore 52
baseline 0.0 → after the event 2.2 edits/day
Misinformation
Elevated activityscore 35
baseline 0.1 → after the event 0.4 edits/day

Typical revision activity

11 articles · alphabetical

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

Ancient Romecontrol
Typical activityscore 17
baseline 0.4 → after the event 0.2 edits/day
Coronavirus
Typical activityscore 12
baseline 0.7 → after the event 1.3 edits/day
Great Barrier Reefcontrol
Typical activityscore 1
baseline 0.1 → after the event 0.1 edits/day
Haikucontrol
Typical activityscore 1
baseline 0.3 → after the event 0.4 edits/day
Johann Sebastian Bachcontrol
Typical activityscore 4
baseline 0.4 → after the event 0.5 edits/day
Jupitercontrol
Typical activityscore 18
baseline 0.2 → after the event 0.7 edits/day
Mitochondriacontrol
Typical activityscore 6
baseline 0.3 → after the event 0.6 edits/day
Photosynthesiscontrol
Typical activityscore 5
baseline 0.2 → after the event 0.1 edits/day
Pythagorean theoremcontrol
Typical activityscore 4
baseline 0.1 → after the event 0.2 edits/day
Social distancing
Typical activityscore 28
baseline 0.1 → after the event 3.6 edits/day
World Health Organization
Typical activityscore 0
baseline 0.8 → after the event 1.4 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 science1 article: The virus, the disease, candidate treatments, and the epidemiology concepts that entered everyday use.
Public-health measures1 article: The practices and equipment that became daily life during the pandemic.
Institutions and places1 article: Health agencies, research institutions, vaccine makers, and early epicenters.
People1 article: Biographies of officials, scientists, and heads of government named in pandemic coverage.
Society and terminology1 article: 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).