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, 107,013 authors made 663,559 changes to 266,367 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Germanwings Flight 9525 (2,006 changes by 313 authors)
  2. 2015 Miami Open – Women's Singles (371 changes by 15 authors)
  3. Prince George's County Sheriff's Office (364 changes by 2 authors)
  4. 2015 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament (348 changes by 42 authors)
  5. Deaths in 2015 (339 changes by 87 authors)
  6. Death and state funeral of Lee Kuan Yew (290 changes by 45 authors)
  7. Riau-Lingga Sultanate (287 changes by 6 authors)
  8. Castell Coch (282 changes by 9 authors)
  9. To Pimp a Butterfly (277 changes by 66 authors)
  10. American Idol (season 14) (257 changes by 22 authors)
  11. 2015 Miami Open – Men's Singles (251 changes by 14 authors)
  12. Chetro Ketl (235 changes by 3 authors)
  13. Maya civilization (232 changes by 4 authors)
  14. Martin Atkinson (230 changes by 41 authors)
  15. Solar eclipse of March 20, 2015 (216 changes by 83 authors)
  16. Lee Kuan Yew (211 changes by 73 authors)
  17. Enthiran (210 changes by 9 authors)
  18. John Patric (209 changes by 6 authors)
  19. 2015 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (202 changes by 11 authors)
  20. English language (199 changes by 12 authors)

New Articles

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

  1. Germanwings Flight 9525 (2,006 changes by 313 authors)
  2. Animal attacks (178 changes by 12 authors)
  3. 2015 military intervention in Yemen (177 changes by 43 authors)
  4. List of Indian women writers (151 changes by 2 authors)
  5. 2015 suicide attacks on Yemen mosques (149 changes by 32 authors)
  6. Gold Nanoparticles (Chemotherapy) (140 changes by 7 authors)
  7. Evolution of Metal Ions in Biological Systems (129 changes by 8 authors)
  8. Christopher J. Schneider (116 changes by 6 authors)
  9. 2015 Idlib city offensive (106 changes by 15 authors)
  10. Southern Yemen offensive (2015) (105 changes by 17 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Germanwings Flight 9525
  2. Gamergate controversy
  3. Ulysses S. Grant
  4. Waldorf education
  5. Foie gras

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

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