How it works
Paste a URL. We watch. You know.
WikiMonitor does one job: detect meaningful changes to your English Wikipedia page in seconds and explain them in plain English. Here is exactly how that happens.
Add your page
Paste the Wikipedia URL and your email. That is the entire setup — no Wikipedia account, no software, no browser extension.
We watch it continuously
WikiMonitor listens to Wikipedia’s public edit stream around the clock and detects edits, creations, deletions, moves, protection, and deletion nominations in seconds.
You get a clear alert
An email arrives with the exact before-and-after text, a plain-English summary, a severity rating, and the public revision link. You decide what, if anything, to do.
What triggers an alert
WikiMonitor listens to Wikipedia’s public edit stream around the clock. Any of these events on a page you monitor sends an alert:
- Edits — any change to the article, from a typo fix to a rewritten section.
- Page creation or recreation — including recreation of a page that was previously deleted.
- Deletion — the page is removed, either immediately (speedy deletion) or after community discussion.
- Deletion nomination — someone has proposed your page for deletion. This is CRITICAL: the discussion window is where pages are defended or lost.
- Moves and renames — the page is retitled; monitoring continues under the new name automatically.
- Protection — editing of the page is restricted by Wikipedia.
What arrives in your inbox
Every alert contains the same evidence:
- Severity — CRITICAL, REVIEW, or ROUTINE, so triage takes a glance.
- A plain-English summary of what changed and what it may mean.
- The highlighted before-and-after diff — exact text, red and green.
- Editor type — registered account, anonymous IP editor, or automated bot, as displayed publicly by Wikipedia.
- The public revision link to verify on Wikipedia itself.
- An honest uncertainty note when the change is ambiguous.
Severity, honestly applied
CRITICAL is reserved for events that usually cannot wait: deletion nominations and deletions, page blanking, unsourced negative claims in prominent sections. Deterministic rules decide some severities outright — a deletion nomination is always CRITICAL. Everything else is classified by what the text actually did: an allegation added is not the same class of event as a citation reformatted.
REVIEW means a substantive change worth reading today: a rewritten lead, a source removed, new critical or positive claims. ROUTINE means maintenance: spelling, categories, templates, bot edits. You can receive ROUTINE changes in a daily digest instead of individual emails.
What we do not do
WikiMonitor watches and explains. It does not edit or revert pages, contact editors, prove the real-world identity of an editor, remove content, or offer reputation-management or legal advice. And we promise no particular outcome on Wikipedia — only that you will know what changed, fast, with the context to act on it.
Your account: no passwords
There is no password to leak. You sign in with a link emailed to you that expires quickly. From that link you can view monitored pages, add or remove pages within your allowance, manage recipients, choose digest delivery, and manage billing.
Renamed, deleted, merged pages
Wikipedia pages move constantly. WikiMonitor tracks your page by its stable internal identity, not its title, so a rename never orphans your monitoring. A deleted page stays monitored through your paid term, and you will know the moment it is recreated.
Know first. Every time.
Paste a Wikipedia URL. If the page changes, you will know in seconds — with the exact change and a plain-English explanation.