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It's nothing extraordinary, really. In 2008 "Barack Obama" was the 3rd most edited article on Wikipedia. In 2004 it was "George W. Bush". [0]

[0] http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-most-edited-wikipedi...

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It's only a sample size of 3 but it seems like the candidate with the most edits is an indicator for who is going to win and if your running mate has more edits than you then it's probably not a good sign. Would like to see how the candidates ranked against each other in 2012.

note that the rankings in that article, as well as this year's rankings, include a month (and a half) after the election occured. I'd imagine a good amount of the edits came after the first tuesday in november.

Similarly, I'd like to see a map of where the edits are coming from.

That would be extremely difficult to do—you could for non-registered editors, as their IPs are recorded, but registered users' IPs are not publicly logged.

For more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CheckUser https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy

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