the WEEKLYPEDIA

A list of the most edited Wikipedia articles and discussions from the last week.

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Hello there! Welcome to our weekly digest of Wikipedia activity.

Articles

This week, 101,471 authors made 609,481 changes to 248,132 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict (675 changes by 123 authors)
  2. SummerSlam (2014) (497 changes by 72 authors)
  3. 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak (492 changes by 96 authors)
  4. 2014 Pacific hurricane season (474 changes by 41 authors)
  5. Ebola virus disease (443 changes by 81 authors)
  6. Kick (2014 film) (394 changes by 71 authors)
  7. Deaths in 2014 (369 changes by 67 authors)
  8. Boko Haram (363 changes by 4 authors)
  9. India at the 2014 Commonwealth Games (316 changes by 20 authors)
  10. 2014 International Champions Cup (314 changes by 56 authors)
  11. Red Velvet (band) (298 changes by 36 authors)
  12. 2014 Pacific typhoon season (291 changes by 26 authors)
  13. 2014 Rogers Cup – Women's Singles (277 changes by 12 authors)
  14. 2014 Rogers Cup – Men's Singles (273 changes by 16 authors)
  15. Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (269 changes by 54 authors)
  16. Guardians of the Galaxy (film) (245 changes by 74 authors)
  17. EmDrive (239 changes by 43 authors)
  18. 2014 FIVB World Grand Prix (235 changes by 10 authors)
  19. Harold J. Greene (234 changes by 27 authors)
  20. 2014 Kaohsiung gas explosions (225 changes by 42 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week.

  1. Harold J. Greene (234 changes by 27 authors)
  2. List of motels (219 changes by 3 authors)
  3. 2014 Ludian earthquake (218 changes by 33 authors)
  4. Joan Robinson Hill (174 changes by 3 authors)
  5. Flora of the Sierra Nevada alpine zone (173 changes by 4 authors)
  6. Center for the Study of Democracy (St. Mary's College of Maryland) (137 changes by 3 authors)
  7. ZMapp (120 changes by 11 authors)
  8. Nach Bach (Rochberg) (113 changes by 3 authors)
  9. The Cenotaph, Cape Town (104 changes by 4 authors)
  10. Hadar Goldin (104 changes by 25 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
  2. 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict
  3. EmDrive
  4. Cities and towns during the Syrian Civil War
  5. Historicity of Jesus

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

About

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