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, 106,297 authors made 688,694 changes to 285,582 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. 2015 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament (347 changes by 53 authors)
  2. To Pimp a Butterfly (323 changes by 68 authors)
  3. Cyclone Pam (313 changes by 62 authors)
  4. Israeli legislative election, 2015 (313 changes by 57 authors)
  5. The Tower House (306 changes by 16 authors)
  6. Second Battle of Tikrit (2014–15) (302 changes by 21 authors)
  7. Deaths in 2015 (299 changes by 84 authors)
  8. India–European Union relations (277 changes by 3 authors)
  9. Castell Coch (273 changes by 8 authors)
  10. 2015 BNP Paribas Open – Men's Singles (260 changes by 18 authors)
  11. Enthiran (259 changes by 9 authors)
  12. Steven Blum (248 changes by 5 authors)
  13. 2015 Tunis hostage crisis (233 changes by 37 authors)
  14. 2015 in sports (222 changes by 9 authors)
  15. Riau-Lingga Sultanate (219 changes by 7 authors)
  16. The Powers That B (209 changes by 13 authors)
  17. List of OTO Award winners (205 changes by 2 authors)
  18. 2015 BNP Paribas Open – Women's Singles (201 changes by 18 authors)
  19. Cinderella (2015 film) (198 changes by 33 authors)
  20. Mortal Kombat X (192 changes by 25 authors)

New Articles

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

  1. 2015 Tunis hostage crisis (233 changes by 37 authors)
  2. Heida Reed (173 changes by 6 authors)
  3. Andy Richards (134 changes by 12 authors)
  4. Geospatial Summary of the Juneau Icefield (134 changes by 4 authors)
  5. Alliance of Women Directors (122 changes by 18 authors)
  6. Pearson Field Education Center (118 changes by 5 authors)
  7. Detroit Public School League (109 changes by 1 authors)
  8. Joseph Duffy (mixed martial arts fighter) (108 changes by 18 authors)
  9. Barbecue restaurant (99 changes by 2 authors)
  10. Adelaide Galciarium (93 changes by 4 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. 2015 University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon racism incident
  2. Gamergate controversy
  3. 2015 Formula One season
  4. Electronic cigarette
  5. Forces on sails/sandbox

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

About

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