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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, 99,757 authors made 660,088 changes to 289,436 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, 2016 (819 changes by 174 authors)
  2. Istanbul Atatürk Airport attack (691 changes by 157 authors)
  3. Independence Day: Resurgence (544 changes by 66 authors)
  4. Conservative Party (UK) leadership election, 2016 (484 changes by 54 authors)
  5. 2016 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles (404 changes by 18 authors)
  6. 2016 NHL Entry Draft (401 changes by 29 authors)
  7. 2016 Wimbledon Championships (382 changes by 19 authors)
  8. The Winds of Winter (Game of Thrones) (374 changes by 58 authors)
  9. Björn Kuipers (323 changes by 5 authors)
  10. Bailando 2015 (306 changes by 1 authors)
  11. Deaths in 2016 (285 changes by 73 authors)
  12. Proposed second Scottish independence referendum (273 changes by 58 authors)
  13. List of black-and-white films that have been colorized (270 changes by 2 authors)
  14. 2016 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles (267 changes by 21 authors)
  15. 2016 Chinese Taipei Open Grand Prix Gold (262 changes by 2 authors)
  16. 2016 FIVB Volleyball World League (258 changes by 11 authors)
  17. 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting (253 changes by 46 authors)
  18. International reactions to the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, 2016 (251 changes by 42 authors)
  19. List of Mexican football transfers summer 2016 (235 changes by 4 authors)
  20. 2016 FIBA Under-17 World Championship (221 changes by 11 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. 2016 Istanbul Atatürk Airport attack (691 changes by 157 authors)
  2. List of British Empire divisions in the Second World War (208 changes by 3 authors)
  3. Élizabeth Teissier (127 changes by 14 authors)
  4. 2016 West Virginia flood (126 changes by 33 authors)
  5. 2016 Sacramento riot (105 changes by 14 authors)
  6. List of postal codes in Hungary (104 changes by 2 authors)
  7. List of British Empire brigades of the Second World War (96 changes by 4 authors)
  8. Asim Duttaroy (95 changes by 14 authors)
  9. Next Labour Party (UK) leadership election (88 changes by 19 authors)
  10. Walter Toogood (87 changes by 6 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, 2016
  2. 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting
  3. List of Islamist terrorist attacks
  4. Palestinians
  5. United Kingdom withdrawal from the European Union

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

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