Personal Wikipedia Monitoring: Alerts in 60 Seconds
WikiMonitor

Personal · $99 per year

Know the moment your Wikipedia page changes

One page, watched continuously. When someone edits it you get an email within 60 seconds with the change itself, not a link asking you to go and find it.

The page about you is the one everything else reads

When someone searches your name, Google builds the panel on the right from your article. When someone asks an assistant who you are, the answer is drawn from the same place. It is the one source every engine has agreed to treat as reliable.

And it can be edited by anyone, at any hour, with no credential and no notice. A sentence added at three in the morning is simply true, everywhere that quotes Wikipedia, until somebody reads it.

What Wikipedia's own Watchlist does, and where it stops

The Watchlist is free and it is the right starting point. It has four limits worth knowing before you rely on it.

  1. It emails you once

    MediaWiki's manual states that after one notification you have to visit the page while logged in to be notified again. Miss that and the alerts stop silently.

  2. It cannot be scoped to one page

    Wikipedia's own help documentation says email notifications cannot be limited by page. Watch anything else and it lands in the same inbox.

  3. It does not show the change

    You get a notice and a link. Working out what actually happened is your job, in the page history.

  4. It needs an account

    A logged-in account, and settings across two separate preference tabs.

The full comparison, with sources

What arrives

WikiMonitor REVIEW Wiki Edit to Tom Cruise

WikiMonitor

Wikipedia edit: Tom Cruise

REVIEW

August 9, 2026 5:44 AM UTC · editor: Cockfightermaster1969 · +20 lines, 1 removed

A registered editor added a company infobox naming TC Productions as a film production company founded in 2008, with Tom Cruise as founder and owner, then replaced the empty successor field with a predecessor crediting Cruise/Wagner Productions.

The change, as Wikipedia recorded it

Added: {{Infobox company
Added: | name = TC Productions
Added: | type = Film production company
Added: | founded = {{end date and age|2008}}
Added: | founder = Tom Cruise
Added: | owner = Tom Cruise
Removed: | successor =
Added: | predecessor = [[Cruise/Wagner Productions]]

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And what it looks like over a year

Most months are quiet. The month that is not is the reason to be watching.

Edit history, last 12 months Sample data, shown to illustrate the view.

Bytes added Bytes removed

+2,500 +1,250 −1,250 −2,500 Sep: 180 added, 60 removed, 2 edits Oct: 420 added, 120 removed, 4 edits Nov: 260 added, 40 removed, 3 edits Dec: 140 added, 310 removed, 3 edits Jan: 610 added, 90 removed, 6 edits Feb: 340 added, 220 removed, 5 edits Mar: 2,410 added, 1,847 removed, 14 edits Apr: 520 added, 160 removed, 5 edits May: 300 added, 80 removed, 3 edits Jun: 180 added, 45 removed, 2 edits Jul: 760 added, 240 removed, 7 edits Aug: 410 added, 130 removed, 4 edits SepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAug −1,847 bytes in one revision
Byte differential by month
MonthAddedRemovedNetEdits
Sep 180 60 +120 2
Oct 420 120 +300 4
Nov 260 40 +220 3
Dec 140 310 −170 3
Jan 610 90 +520 6
Feb 340 220 +120 5
Mar 2,410 1,847 +563 14
Apr 520 160 +360 5
May 300 80 +220 3
Jun 180 45 +135 2
Jul 760 240 +520 7
Aug 410 130 +280 4

What Personal includes

$99per year

One page

  • One Wikipedia page
  • Alerts within 60 seconds of the edit
  • The change itself, inside the email
  • Who edited, and whether they were logged in
  • Cancel any time

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Questions

I already have a Wikipedia account. Is the Watchlist not enough?

It works once. MediaWiki documents that after the first notification email you have to visit the page while logged in before you will be told about anything else, and the email never contains the change. If you are checking manually anyway, the Watchlist is doing very little for you.

What if my page is edited constantly?

You still get every edit, and each alert says what was done. Bot edits and citation cleanups look different from a rewritten paragraph, and the summary tells you which one you are looking at before you decide whether to open it.

Can I watch a page about someone else?

Yes. Nothing about the product requires the page to be about you. Personal covers one page, whoever it is about.

Will you fix a bad edit for me?

No, we detect changes. Editing an article you have a stake in breaks Wikipedia's conflict-of-interest rules. Knowing quickly, with the change in front of you, is what lets you decide how to respond.