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, 109,487 authors made 683,415 changes to 271,647 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Jurassic World (664 changes by 113 authors)
  2. Rachel Dolezal (629 changes by 79 authors)
  3. Syed Ali Nawab (359 changes by 2 authors)
  4. Electronic Entertainment Expo 2015 (340 changes by 44 authors)
  5. Warren G. Harding (325 changes by 12 authors)
  6. Political positions of Jeb Bush (318 changes by 11 authors)
  7. Deaths in 2015 (306 changes by 64 authors)
  8. 2015 Aegon Classic – Singles (301 changes by 14 authors)
  9. Philippines at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games (301 changes by 8 authors)
  10. List of Works Progress Administration artists (293 changes by 3 authors)
  11. 2015 NBA Finals (280 changes by 51 authors)
  12. The Authority (professional wrestling) (253 changes by 22 authors)
  13. Big Brother 17 (U.S.) (241 changes by 22 authors)
  14. Jeb Bush (238 changes by 35 authors)
  15. 2015 European Games (233 changes by 41 authors)
  16. Inside Out (2015 film) (230 changes by 27 authors)
  17. Mysterious Dave Mather (230 changes by 7 authors)
  18. 2015 Southeast Asian Games (228 changes by 27 authors)
  19. Finland at the 2015 European Games (228 changes by 2 authors)
  20. Fallout Shelter (227 changes by 20 authors)

New Articles

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

  1. Rachel Dolezal (629 changes by 79 authors)
  2. Tell Abyad Campaign (2015) (185 changes by 12 authors)
  3. Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church (Charleston, South Carolina) (147 changes by 30 authors)
  4. Slice of Life (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic) (139 changes by 10 authors)
  5. Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016 (128 changes by 20 authors)
  6. Bertie Snowball (122 changes by 5 authors)
  7. Raphael Hamburger (115 changes by 5 authors)
  8. 2015 Tbilisi flood (109 changes by 25 authors)
  9. 2015 Florida Gators softball season (105 changes by 4 authors)
  10. Justin D. Bibee (99 changes by 6 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Gamergate controversy
  2. Rachel Dolezal
  3. Modern Hebrew
  4. Cities and towns during the Syrian Civil War
  5. Bangladesh Liberation War

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

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