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, 122,181 authors made 799,634 changes to 362,853 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Republican Party presidential primaries, 2016 (426 changes by 55 authors)
  2. United Kingdom European Union membership referendum (388 changes by 73 authors)
  3. American Idol (season 15) (382 changes by 21 authors)
  4. Vincent van Gogh (359 changes by 10 authors)
  5. Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2016 (345 changes by 74 authors)
  6. Lech Wałęsa (345 changes by 12 authors)
  7. Deaths in 2016 (321 changes by 78 authors)
  8. Cyclone Winston (316 changes by 49 authors)
  9. List of children's films (303 changes by 7 authors)
  10. SS Nezhin (282 changes by 8 authors)
  11. 2016 Qatar Total Open – Singles (258 changes by 12 authors)
  12. 2016 Pakistan Super League (257 changes by 18 authors)
  13. List of Catholic saints (255 changes by 4 authors)
  14. 2016 AFC Futsal Championship (230 changes by 19 authors)
  15. List of Bengalis (217 changes by 1 authors)
  16. The Mermaid (2016 film) (212 changes by 12 authors)
  17. Pakistan Super League (209 changes by 21 authors)
  18. Carl Edgar Myers (209 changes by 4 authors)
  19. Donald Trump (202 changes by 56 authors)
  20. 2016 in sports (201 changes by 8 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. SS Nezhin (282 changes by 8 authors)
  2. Carl Edgar Myers (209 changes by 4 authors)
  3. Tara Air Flight 193 (148 changes by 42 authors)
  4. PiliPinas Debates 2016 - Mindanao leg (110 changes by 8 authors)
  5. List of Swedish women artists (102 changes by 2 authors)
  6. Jat reservation agitation (95 changes by 11 authors)
  7. 2016 Qatar Total Open – Doubles (95 changes by 16 authors)
  8. David Hamilton (businessman) (90 changes by 2 authors)
  9. Marcus Rashford (85 changes by 23 authors)
  10. Robert David Redmile (85 changes by 6 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Christina Hoff Sommers
  2. Vladimir Putin
  3. Bernie Sanders
  4. Cities and towns during the Syrian Civil War
  5. Hillary Clinton email controversy

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

About

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