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Averages 32 posts/day, top 5% activity. Most active Wednesdays around 11 AM UTC. Mostly link posts (83%).

Posts / Day Average posts per day this month. Arrow is change vs the prior calendar month.
32 15%
Avg Upvotes Mean net upvotes per post this month (upvotes minus downvotes). Arrow is change vs the prior month.
189 6%
Avg Comments Mean number of comments per post this month. Arrow is change vs the prior month when that month’s data is available.
13 9%
Activity Rank #4,372 by posts/day among 90,883 tracked SFW subreddits as of Sep 2026 (Top 5%). Arrow is spots gained or lost vs the prior month.
#4,372 721
Top 5%
Posts w/ Links The percentage of posts that link off-site. This counts true link posts plus text posts with a URL in the body. Image and video posts are not counted.
85%
Low-Reply Rate Share of posts with 0 or 1 comment. A single comment is often an automated mod reply rather than real community discussion.
41%

r/wikipedia Traffic & Engagement

Volume and engagement over time

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Posts/Day Avg Upvotes Mean net upvotes per post in this bucket.

Post Format

Top Post Type Link
Typical Title Length Long (197 chars)
Peak Day Tuesday

Upvote Distribution

How upvoted posts perform Only posts with 2+ upvotes. The bands below show how those posts are spread by upvote count.

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Posts that get upvoted Share of posts that received at least one upvote (2+ net upvotes). Most posts at 1 upvote are excluded. 78%
Median upvoted post Median upvotes among posts that received upvotes. Differs from Avg Upvotes in the snapshot, which includes every post. 68
Top post Highest upvote count on a single post this month. 4.8K

r/wikipedia Most Active Times

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r/wikipedia Flair Performance

Upvotes and volume by flair

Flair Posts Upvotes
Meta Discussion59 (100.0%)37

Post Type Breakdown

Share by text, image, or link

83%link posts

r/wikipedia Trending Keywords

Ranked by how often they appear

KeywordMentions ▼UpvotesComments
wikipedia
84 (8.7%)
778
american
80 (8.3%)
26817
known
60 (6.2%)
26114
war
52 (5.4%)
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used
52 (5.4%)
28626
first
47 (4.9%)
13710
between
43 (4.5%)
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made
39 (4.0%)
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name
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most
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r/wikipedia Mentioned Domains

Most linked sites

Domain Links Upvotes
en.wikipedia.org778221
panigma.fr30

r/wikipedia Top Posts

Highest-performing posts

Ron Reagan (1958-present) is the son of former US President Ronald Reagan. Ron is a supporter of the Democratic Party and progressive causes, and is an outspoken atheist.

4.8K upvotes 101 comments link Sep 3

Actress Tura Satana, star of the cult film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965). Shortly before her 10th birthday, she was gang raped by five teenagers. She then learned martial arts, and according to her over the next 15 years she tracked down each of her rapists and exacted her revenge.

2.7K upvotes 63 comments link Sep 10

“I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” is a post-apocalyptic short story by American writer Harlan Ellison. The story depicts an AI uprising in which a supercomputer gains sentience and eradicates humanity except for five individuals, torturing the survivors as a form of revenge against its creators.

2.6K upvotes 67 comments link Sep 5

Max Miller (born March 30, 1983) is an American YouTuber and historian known for being the creator and host of Tasting History, a culinary and history fusion web-show that recreates ancient or historical recipes and explains the history around them.

2.6K upvotes 144 comments link Sep 21

"Terminal lucidity" is a phenomenon in which a terminally ill patient, who had previously been confused, dull, demented, or otherwise nonresponsive, suddenly regains mental clarity shortly before their death. There is no current consensus on the cause of this effect.

2.5K upvotes 80 comments link Sep 2

Corruption allegations during the second Trump presidency: Since 2025, Trump has been accused of unprecedented corruption. He engaged in various acts considered of self-enrichment and conflict of interest like favored pardons, insider trading, solicitation of donations, and jawboning manipulation.

2.2K upvotes 43 comments link Sep 16

KImberly Sullivan, a woman who held her stepson prisoner in his room from 11 until he was 33, when he set the house on fire in order to escape, weighing only 68 pounds (31 kilograms) at the time. She has since rejected all plea deals and is facing over 45 years in prison.

2.2K upvotes 68 comments link Sep 15

The phrase "spiritually Israeli" is an internet meme and pejorative term critical of Israel that emerged on social media platforms in 2025, used to describe people, brands, cultural trends, or phenomena that the speaker finds vapid, soulless, commercially hollow, or inauthentic.

2.1K upvotes 448 comments link Sep 12

In the "Jurassic Park" novel and movie, it is explained that the park's dinosaurs are genetically engineered to be unable to produce Lysine, meaning that they would die outside of the park as a coningiency against escapes. In reality, no animal has the ability to produce Lysine.

2.0K upvotes 89 comments link Sep 14

Bowling Alone is a 2000 nonfiction book by Robert D. Putnam surveying the decline of social capital in the United States since 1950. He described the reduction of interpersonal interaction upon which Americans used to enrich the fabric of their social lives, undermining the civic basis of democracy.

1.9K upvotes 86 comments link Sep 15

r/wikipedia Audience Overlap

Overlapping audiences

r/wikipedia FAQ

What's the best time to post on r/wikipedia?

Based on posting volume, r/wikipedia is most active on Wednesdays around 11 AM UTC. That window has the most community activity, but busier hours also mean more competition for attention.

How active is r/wikipedia?

r/wikipedia averages 32 posts per day and ranks in the top 5% for activity among tracked SFW subreddits.

How many upvotes do posts on r/wikipedia get?

Posts on r/wikipedia average about 189 upvotes this month (net score per post).

What kind of posts does r/wikipedia get most?

On r/wikipedia, most posts are link posts (83%)