Wikipedia has seen a spike in people editing pages during the pandemic

By Chris Stokel-Walker

Bored of the pandemic and stuck at home, many of us passed the time editing Wikipedia pages, according to data on the collaborative website’s changes over the past few years.

An analysis of 223 million edits to Wikipedia between 2018 and 2020 shows a 20 per cent increase in the number of changes made to pages on the English-language version between January and September 2020. Similar rises were recorded on 11 other language versions of the online encyclopaedia.

The impact wasn’t immediate, however: the …