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, 109,488 authors made 678,602 changes to 279,299 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. 2017 Las Vegas Strip shooting (1,515 changes by 326 authors)
  2. Index of Italy-related articles (788 changes by 2 authors)
  3. Catalan independence referendum, 2017 (553 changes by 106 authors)
  4. Deaths in 2017 (510 changes by 104 authors)
  5. Tom Petty (504 changes by 148 authors)
  6. List of Italian records in masters athletics (463 changes by 4 authors)
  7. Blade Runner 2049 (458 changes by 69 authors)
  8. Timeline of the Yuan dynasty (370 changes by 6 authors)
  9. The Voice (U.S. season 13) (340 changes by 20 authors)
  10. 2017 European Masters (snooker) (300 changes by 8 authors)
  11. 2017 Atlantic hurricane season (299 changes by 61 authors)
  12. Hurricane Maria (277 changes by 56 authors)
  13. Miss World 2017 (252 changes by 29 authors)
  14. Sing Tao Holdings (246 changes by 1 authors)
  15. 25 Days of Christmas (231 changes by 10 authors)
  16. Strictly Come Dancing (series 15) (230 changes by 14 authors)
  17. The Holocaust (227 changes by 8 authors)
  18. List of terrorist incidents in October 2017 (226 changes by 34 authors)
  19. 2017 China Open – Women's Singles (221 changes by 28 authors)
  20. Reactions to the 2017 Las Vegas Strip shooting (220 changes by 44 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. Timeline of the Yuan dynasty (370 changes by 6 authors)
  2. List of terrorist incidents in October 2017 (226 changes by 34 authors)
  3. Reactions to the Las Vegas concert shooting (220 changes by 44 authors)
  4. Stephen Paddock (216 changes by 63 authors)
  5. Benjamin Hoskins Paddock (149 changes by 56 authors)
  6. Gloucestershire Regiment in World War I (133 changes by 2 authors)
  7. Jacques Dubochet (117 changes by 20 authors)
  8. Pencoyd (Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania) (108 changes by 1 authors)
  9. Animal welfare and rights in Azerbaijan (91 changes by 5 authors)
  10. Jannatul Nayeem Avril (81 changes by 18 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. 2017 Las Vegas Strip shooting
  2. Tom Petty
  3. Patriot Prayer
  4. Dalai Lama
  5. Catalan independence referendum, 2017

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

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