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, 106,218 authors made 722,788 changes to 310,009 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. 2015 Charlie Hebdo magazine shooting (1,689 changes by 355 authors)
  2. Gisborne City AFC (493 changes by 9 authors)
  3. Deaths in 2015 (408 changes by 83 authors)
  4. Iowa Hill, California (384 changes by 2 authors)
  5. Bess Myerson (373 changes by 28 authors)
  6. Tara Strong (368 changes by 11 authors)
  7. Stuart Scott (354 changes by 68 authors)
  8. 2015 World Junior Ice Hockey Championship (347 changes by 39 authors)
  9. 2015 Cricket World Cup squads (314 changes by 19 authors)
  10. Waldorf Astoria New York (307 changes by 9 authors)
  11. Donna Douglas (300 changes by 59 authors)
  12. 2014–15 NFL playoffs (300 changes by 37 authors)
  13. Death of Leelah Alcorn (297 changes by 44 authors)
  14. Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 (295 changes by 73 authors)
  15. Citizen Kane (293 changes by 8 authors)
  16. Charlie Hebdo (279 changes by 121 authors)
  17. 2015 Hopman Cup (266 changes by 24 authors)
  18. 2015 BDO World Darts Championship (250 changes by 21 authors)
  19. 2014–15 Big Bash League season (243 changes by 10 authors)
  20. Demob suit (233 changes by 2 authors)

New Articles

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

  1. Charlie Hebdo shooting (1,689 changes by 355 authors)
  2. Irataba (228 changes by 2 authors)
  3. Bigg Boss Halla Bol! (163 changes by 26 authors)
  4. Je suis Charlie (146 changes by 44 authors)
  5. Timeline of the war in Donbass (January 2015–present) (125 changes by 8 authors)
  6. Charb (122 changes by 53 authors)
  7. The Final episode of The Colbert Report (120 changes by 6 authors)
  8. Wa (watercraft) (119 changes by 3 authors)
  9. MV Hoegh Osaka (117 changes by 21 authors)
  10. Kidnapping of Moisés Sánchez Cerezo (113 changes by 3 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Charlie Hebdo massacre
  2. Shooting of Michael Brown
  3. Gamergate controversy
  4. Death of Leelah Alcorn
  5. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

About

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