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, 123,698 authors made 779,452 changes to 325,163 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. January 2016 United States blizzard (709 changes by 116 authors)
  2. Occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge (642 changes by 83 authors)
  3. Planet Nine (615 changes by 111 authors)
  4. Waves (Kanye West album) (473 changes by 55 authors)
  5. Deaths in 2016 (442 changes by 92 authors)
  6. 2016 Pro Bowl (435 changes by 27 authors)
  7. A.J. Styles (432 changes by 61 authors)
  8. Triple J Hottest 100, 2015 (427 changes by 17 authors)
  9. 2016 Australian Open (406 changes by 32 authors)
  10. Jeanette Aw (312 changes by 6 authors)
  11. Michael Hordern (289 changes by 10 authors)
  12. Zika virus (286 changes by 91 authors)
  13. Royal Rumble (2016) (284 changes by 57 authors)
  14. La Loche Community School shooting (278 changes by 23 authors)
  15. Jack Newfield (261 changes by 3 authors)
  16. 2016 European Men's Handball Championship (257 changes by 21 authors)
  17. Edge, Branscombe (241 changes by 8 authors)
  18. Flint water crisis (238 changes by 33 authors)
  19. Super Bowl 50 (225 changes by 65 authors)
  20. 2016 Syed Modi International Grand Prix Gold (219 changes by 4 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. La Loche shootings (278 changes by 23 authors)
  2. January 2016 East Asia cold wave (175 changes by 50 authors)
  3. Homer Clyde Snook (169 changes by 1 authors)
  4. Frank Styant Browne (160 changes by 5 authors)
  5. Joseph William Sutton (134 changes by 8 authors)
  6. Henry Worsley (adventurer) (132 changes by 25 authors)
  7. Manas Shah (116 changes by 9 authors)
  8. Bret Hart: Survival of the Hitman (113 changes by 4 authors)
  9. The Duchess (died 1974) (106 changes by 3 authors)
  10. Pepe Jaramillo (95 changes by 3 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Cannabis dispensaries in the United States
  2. Genesis creation narrative
  3. Planet Nine
  4. Genetically modified crops
  5. Parapsychology

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

About

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