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, 101,568 authors made 646,396 changes to 280,696 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Robin Williams (984 changes by 292 authors)
  2. 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict (480 changes by 74 authors)
  3. Deaths in 2014 (434 changes by 67 authors)
  4. List of PC exclusive titles (425 changes by 45 authors)
  5. 2014 West Africa Ebola virus outbreak (414 changes by 91 authors)
  6. Flora of the Sierra Nevada alpine zone (410 changes by 7 authors)
  7. Boko Haram (395 changes by 11 authors)
  8. Lauren Bacall (360 changes by 97 authors)
  9. Anjaan (2014 film) (335 changes by 28 authors)
  10. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (304 changes by 72 authors)
  11. Fields Medal (289 changes by 36 authors)
  12. 2014 Western & Southern Open – Women's Singles (273 changes by 13 authors)
  13. Yazidi (270 changes by 68 authors)
  14. 2014 Western & Southern Open – Men's Singles (239 changes by 17 authors)
  15. MasterChef (U.S. season 5) (234 changes by 19 authors)
  16. St. Mary's College of Maryland (231 changes by 5 authors)
  17. FK Sarajevo (220 changes by 11 authors)
  18. SummerSlam (2014) (217 changes by 45 authors)
  19. America's Got Talent (season 9) (214 changes by 13 authors)
  20. 2014 Teen Choice Awards (212 changes by 33 authors)

New Articles

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

  1. List of PC titles (166 changes by 32 authors)
  2. Edmundo Alarcon (145 changes by 13 authors)
  3. Jovan Šević (138 changes by 7 authors)
  4. List of government-owned companies (131 changes by 6 authors)
  5. 2014 American intervention in Iraq (130 changes by 33 authors)
  6. Brian Johnston (literary researcher) (119 changes by 9 authors)
  7. Ming Antu's infinite series expansion of trigonometric functions (115 changes by 5 authors)
  8. Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915 (114 changes by 39 authors)
  9. David Friesenhausen (89 changes by 4 authors)
  10. Amir Segal (84 changes by 12 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Robin Williams
  2. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
  3. 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict
  4. Cities and towns during the Syrian Civil War
  5. Malaysia Airlines Flight 17

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

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