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I'd like to see a list of all of my Wikipedia edits which have been subsequently reverted (as opposed to the ones that have been retained). How is it possible to do this?

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It's hard to do this, because it's hard to define what exactly “reverted” means. What if you added a section, then other people made edits to this section and then somebody else removed the section. Should that count as a revert? How could you detect something like that? – svick Sep 20 '12 at 20:39
All reverted edit summaries on Wikipedia contain the text (in italics) that reads "Reverted edits by (name of user) to last version by (name of previous editor)". This is how reverts can be distinguished from other edits. – Anderson Green Sep 20 '12 at 21:04

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Monitoring the watchlist is your only option. You can use your browser's find option to highlight what you are looking for. But that doesn't guaranty that you will find what you want, maybe your edits get removed without “revert” or “undo” tools.

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I think it would be possible to get a list of reverted edits using a script that would scan over the edit summaries of each of the user's edits, and then return a list of all edit summaries that match the regular expression /Reverted edits by * to last version by */ (where * is the wildcard character). – Anderson Green Sep 20 '12 at 22:31
Would it be possible to use WikiBlame for this purpose? wikipedia.ramselehof.de/wikiblame.php – Anderson Green Dec 15 '12 at 15:51

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