Hello there! Welcome to our weekly digest of Wikipedia activity.
Articles
This week, 115,045 authors made 798,487 changes to 354,578 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:
- Deaths in 2018 (639 changes by 102 authors)
- 2017–18 Iranian protests (415 changes by 61 authors)
- NEC V60 (406 changes by 5 authors)
- Har Gobind Khorana (374 changes by 84 authors)
- 2018 BDO World Darts Championship (355 changes by 23 authors)
- 2018 Championship League (344 changes by 7 authors)
- 75th Golden Globe Awards (284 changes by 47 authors)
- Fire and Fury (271 changes by 68 authors)
- History of the metric system (251 changes by 4 authors)
- Royal Rumble (2018) (250 changes by 47 authors)
- 2017–18 NFL playoffs (244 changes by 30 authors)
- 2018 Australian Open – Men's Singles Qualifying (237 changes by 15 authors)
- Celebrity Big Brother 21 (UK) (235 changes by 23 authors)
- Insidious: The Last Key (229 changes by 28 authors)
- 2018 Thailand Masters (badminton) (224 changes by 6 authors)
- Sunshine Coast Football (215 changes by 1 authors)
- Golden Disc Awards (195 changes by 24 authors)
- America's Next Top Model (cycle 24) (194 changes by 18 authors)
- 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship (194 changes by 27 authors)
- WWE Mixed Match Challenge (190 changes by 29 authors)
New Articles
The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week
- William Villiers, 2nd Viscount Grandison (179 changes by 2 authors)
- List of prolific songwriters (173 changes by 6 authors)
- 2017–18 Diósgyőri VTK season (157 changes by 1 authors)
- Trump Street (135 changes by 5 authors)
- List of UK top 10 singles in 1975 (128 changes by 5 authors)
- 2018 South California landslides (114 changes by 20 authors)
- Pragathi Bhavan (107 changes by 3 authors)
- Biology of bipolar disorder (107 changes by 3 authors)
- MV Sanchi (102 changes by 17 authors)
- Foreign players in Zalgiris (101 changes by 3 authors)
Discussions
The most active discussions:
- 2017–18 Iranian protests
- Donald Trump
- Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
- Ulysses S. Grant
- List of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches
Stats
A few numbers from last week:
- 39,127 registered users and 75,918 unregistered users made 798,487 edits to 354,578 articles
- Unregistered users made 187,264 edits to 89,092 articles
- 41 robots made 69,118 edits to 63,290 articles
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.