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, 107,458 authors made 655,618 changes to 259,810 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. 2015 Australian Open (420 changes by 26 authors)
  2. 2015 Australian Open – Men's Singles (407 changes by 35 authors)
  3. Royal Rumble (2015) (406 changes by 64 authors)
  4. Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (373 changes by 105 authors)
  5. Triple J Hottest 100, 2014 (357 changes by 13 authors)
  6. Baby (2015 film) (346 changes by 49 authors)
  7. Helena Blavatsky (326 changes by 9 authors)
  8. Deaths in 2015 (319 changes by 82 authors)
  9. 2015 World Men's Handball Championship (310 changes by 26 authors)
  10. Enthiran (300 changes by 12 authors)
  11. 2015 Pro Bowl (285 changes by 45 authors)
  12. Bigg Boss Halla Bol! (282 changes by 39 authors)
  13. 2015 Australian Open – Women's Singles (273 changes by 23 authors)
  14. 2015 AFC Asian Cup (268 changes by 45 authors)
  15. American Sniper (film) (263 changes by 63 authors)
  16. Sarasvati River (243 changes by 12 authors)
  17. Imperial Japanese dissidents in the Shōwa period (243 changes by 5 authors)
  18. 2015 India Open Grand Prix Gold (241 changes by 5 authors)
  19. Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (236 changes by 103 authors)
  20. Justin Vivian Bond (234 changes by 6 authors)

New Articles

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

  1. DeflateGate (191 changes by 47 authors)
  2. FourFiveSeconds (168 changes by 19 authors)
  3. Traian Brăileanu (152 changes by 4 authors)
  4. Claude Philippe (109 changes by 2 authors)
  5. Oruno Lara (102 changes by 7 authors)
  6. Auramics (99 changes by 5 authors)
  7. Largest Cites of India (93 changes by 2 authors)
  8. Ravindra Kumar / IAS (86 changes by 10 authors)
  9. Harry Gordon (journalist) (84 changes by 7 authors)
  10. Saga of a Married Man (83 changes by 1 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Gamergate controversy
  2. Cities and towns during the Syrian Civil War
  3. Steven Emerson
  4. Indo-Aryan migration hypothesis
  5. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

About

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