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Most-revised article on Wikipedia: George W. Bush

June 3, 2014

A brief but fascinating bit of social commentary on the interwebs during the past week: the website fivethirtyeight.com ran an analysis of the most-revised articles on Wikipedia and then listed the top 100.

You can’t always trust Wikipedia, but you can change it! The No. 1 most-changed article, that of George W. Bush, has been revised more than 45,000 times, according to the analysis by fivethirtyeight.

Here are the top five:

1. George W. Bush

2. List of WWE personnel

3. United States

4. Michael Jackson

5. Jesus

Also in the top 10: Adolf Hitler and Britney Spears. Guns N’ Roses was No. 90, followed by Albert Einstein at No. 91.

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