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# Current Wikipedia Chaos Index
- URL: https://capitolcommunicator.com/current-wikipedia-chaos-index-2/
- Published: 2023-05-10T18:04:43.000Z
- Updated: 2023-05-11T10:49:34.000Z
- Author: Guest Columnist
- Tags: PR, Agency, Insights, #wp-upper-left-sponsored, #Import 2026-10-08 18:53

**By Josh Greene,** [**The Mather Group**](https://themathergroupllc.com/?ref=capitolcommunicator.com)

**The Chaos Index is The Mather Group’s proprietary metric** for measuring turbulence throughout Wikipedia and tracking the community’s current sentiment towards corporate-related pages. The index measures community actions such as editing frequency, content deletion, message board posts, and many other activities that contribute to unstable corporate page environments.

- This month’s Chaos Index sits at 68, a slight increase over April, and matching normal patterns of activity we typically see heading into Q2 every year.
- Articles for Creation wait times and pages nominated for deletion saw an uptick this month – though we’ve not seen an increase in the percentage of pages deleted by Wikipedia (either new or existing), these are both trends we are watching in the next few months.
- After a small respite to begin the year, sockpuppet investigations continue at extremely high levels for the third month in a row, a prescient reminder of the handful of dedicated editors fighting vandalism and promotional editing on the platform.

As an open platform, Wikipedia is always home to interesting, experimental tools – not only those designed to help the platform operate more efficiently, but to utilize the platform’s open, accessible data and statistics to have a real-world impact on the world.

Recently, scientists from the National History Museum developed a new tool called the [Species Awareness Index](https://themathergroupllc.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cce5036f6d4489228908d14c2&id=e7cc9176e5&e=53d545074b&ref=capitolcommunicator.com) (or SAI) as part of a study published in [*Conservation Biology*](https://themathergroupllc.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cce5036f6d4489228908d14c2&id=121d4edf48&e=53d545074b&ref=capitolcommunicator.com). The SAI is designed to help monitor biodiversity through real-time tracking of Wikipedia pageviews, monitoring 40,000 different species across 10 popular Wikipedia language editions.

Originally designed in 2015 as a static tool to measure society’s changing interest in different species, the SAI is now designed to monitor monthly trends in the pageviews of various species – a function heavily inspired by the Living Planet Index, measuring changes in vertebrate population over time. This index, which the authors hopes will provide a “global index of changing biodiversity awareness”, is the first entirely automated conservation culturomic platform, and another great reminder of the sometimes-unseen potential Wikipedia can provide for all of Earth’s creatures.

**The Mather Group, a Capitol Communicator sponsor, is a boutique digital marketing and online reputation agency that focuses on SEO, Wikipedia and effective marketing for businesses.**