the WEEKLYPEDIA

A list of the most edited Wikipedia articles and discussions from the last week.

Delivered every Friday by email.

Hello there! Welcome to our weekly digest of Wikipedia activity.

Articles

This week, 104,019 authors made 723,694 changes to 325,830 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Vincent van Gogh (727 changes by 13 authors)
  2. List of people declared venerable by Pope John Paul II (464 changes by 4 authors)
  3. Miss Universe 2016 (403 changes by 31 authors)
  4. Royal Horse Guards (365 changes by 2 authors)
  5. Deaths in 2016 (350 changes by 78 authors)
  6. Emirates Flight 521 (301 changes by 63 authors)
  7. Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (282 changes by 5 authors)
  8. Suicide Squad (film) (268 changes by 93 authors)
  9. Jason Bourne (film) (265 changes by 52 authors)
  10. Tangalle (258 changes by 11 authors)
  11. Early Dynastic Period (Mesopotamia) (256 changes by 9 authors)
  12. List of Hillary Clinton presidential campaign endorsements, 2016 (251 changes by 29 authors)
  13. 2016 Pacific typhoon season (235 changes by 21 authors)
  14. Leroy Sané (228 changes by 29 authors)
  15. List of Russian football transfers summer 2016 (218 changes by 1 authors)
  16. Statewide opinion polling for the United States presidential election, 2016 (214 changes by 18 authors)
  17. Celebrity Big Brother 18 (201 changes by 22 authors)
  18. Glory (Britney Spears album) (196 changes by 18 authors)
  19. Hibernian F.C. in European football (196 changes by 4 authors)
  20. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (188 changes by 53 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. Emirates Flight 521 (301 changes by 63 authors)
  2. Glory (Britney Spears album) (196 changes by 18 authors)
  3. Humayun Khan (soldier) (165 changes by 37 authors)
  4. Luke Aikins (153 changes by 40 authors)
  5. 2016 Lockhart hot air balloon crash (151 changes by 53 authors)
  6. Khizr and Ghazala Khan (141 changes by 31 authors)
  7. Montenergin clubs in Yugoslav football competitions (1946-2006) (123 changes by 2 authors)
  8. 2016 London knife attack (119 changes by 20 authors)
  9. Tropical Storm Earl (2016) (117 changes by 21 authors)
  10. List of ballooning accidents by death toll (106 changes by 11 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Donald Trump
  2. Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016
  3. Hillary Clinton
  4. Philippines v. China
  5. Gustav Holst

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

About

This project retrieves a list of the week's recent changes using Wikimedia Tool Labs, and delivers emails using MailChimp. Code and more information available on GitHub. Built by Stephen LaPorte and Mahmoud Hashemi.

Learn more on the Hatnote blog.