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, 112,550 authors made 745,061 changes to 335,002 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. List of antineoplastic agents (743 changes by 3 authors)
  2. Views (album) (522 changes by 79 authors)
  3. Republican Party presidential primaries, 2016 (497 changes by 91 authors)
  4. Payback (2016) (477 changes by 54 authors)
  5. Panama Papers (430 changes by 36 authors)
  6. Deaths in 2016 (393 changes by 71 authors)
  7. Captain America: Civil War (392 changes by 67 authors)
  8. 2016 NFL draft (372 changes by 56 authors)
  9. 2016 World Snooker Championship (339 changes by 20 authors)
  10. 2016 Indian Premier League (294 changes by 19 authors)
  11. 2016 Mutua Madrid Open – Women's Singles (285 changes by 15 authors)
  12. 2016 Mutua Madrid Open – Men's Singles (278 changes by 30 authors)
  13. Bailando 2015 (263 changes by 2 authors)
  14. 2016 Turøy helicopter crash (258 changes by 43 authors)
  15. Nicolas George Ioannou (244 changes by 10 authors)
  16. Dearborn-Putnam controversy (240 changes by 4 authors)
  17. ASEAN Football Federation (239 changes by 5 authors)
  18. Daniel Berrigan (217 changes by 34 authors)
  19. Richard Burton (216 changes by 4 authors)
  20. May 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire (215 changes by 61 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. 2016 Turøy helicopter crash (258 changes by 43 authors)
  2. Nicolas George Ioannou (244 changes by 10 authors)
  3. 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire (215 changes by 61 authors)
  4. Australian Involvement in the East Timor Invasion (209 changes by 14 authors)
  5. Jean-Luc Montminy (194 changes by 7 authors)
  6. Applied Medical Informatics (188 changes by 6 authors)
  7. The Gearagh (174 changes by 5 authors)
  8. Beatriz Escobar (147 changes by 4 authors)
  9. Lauren Southern (142 changes by 26 authors)
  10. Robert Orme (soldier) (140 changes by 4 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Four Noble Truths
  2. Hillary Clinton
  3. Stanley Milgram
  4. Flag of Northern Ireland
  5. Scandinavia

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

About

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