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, 110,900 authors made 688,793 changes to 280,948 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Index of Italy-related articles (1,710 changes by 2 authors)
  2. Hurricane Ophelia (2017) (493 changes by 91 authors)
  3. Deaths in 2017 (484 changes by 94 authors)
  4. 2017 English Open (snooker) (409 changes by 6 authors)
  5. 2017 Atlantic hurricane season (322 changes by 72 authors)
  6. List of adventure films of the 1960s (317 changes by 1 authors)
  7. Harvey Weinstein sexual misconduct allegations (316 changes by 61 authors)
  8. 2017 National League Championship Series (312 changes by 19 authors)
  9. 2017 Pacific typhoon season (303 changes by 22 authors)
  10. 2017 American League Championship Series (303 changes by 20 authors)
  11. Bellwether (272 changes by 1 authors)
  12. Thai literature (264 changes by 2 authors)
  13. GW170817 (229 changes by 40 authors)
  14. 1900 (212 changes by 3 authors)
  15. Gord Downie (202 changes by 44 authors)
  16. 2017 Las Vegas shooting (200 changes by 39 authors)
  17. 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup (194 changes by 30 authors)
  18. Battle of Kirkuk (2017) (193 changes by 42 authors)
  19. Sean Hughes (comedian) (193 changes by 43 authors)
  20. October 2017 Mogadishu bombings (191 changes by 49 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. Battle of Kirkuk (2017) (193 changes by 42 authors)
  2. October 2017 Mogadishu bombings (191 changes by 49 authors)
  3. Me too (hashtag) (166 changes by 21 authors)
  4. 2017 Kremlin Cup – Women's Singles (143 changes by 12 authors)
  5. DeAndre Harris (137 changes by 9 authors)
  6. Quebec municipal elections, 2017 (136 changes by 4 authors)
  7. 2017 BGL Luxembourg Open – Singles (135 changes by 15 authors)
  8. 2017 Niger ambush (134 changes by 10 authors)
  9. Music for Stowaways (111 changes by 1 authors)
  10. 2017 BWF World Junior Championships – Boys' singles (110 changes by 4 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. 2017 Las Vegas shooting
  2. Catalan independence referendum, 2017
  3. Hurricane Ophelia (2017)
  4. Taiwan
  5. Linda Sarsour

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

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