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, 116,001 authors made 923,192 changes to 480,579 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Deaths in 2018 (514 changes by 91 authors)
  2. Veer-Zaara (413 changes by 7 authors)
  3. WrestleMania 34 (399 changes by 50 authors)
  4. Austin serial bombings (374 changes by 88 authors)
  5. Polish collaboration with Nazi Germany (345 changes by 24 authors)
  6. Russian presidential election, 2018 (341 changes by 97 authors)
  7. 2018 Pakistan Super League (312 changes by 24 authors)
  8. Binibining Pilipinas 2018 (299 changes by 20 authors)
  9. Florida International University pedestrian bridge collapse (288 changes by 63 authors)
  10. 2018 Miami Open – Men's Singles (285 changes by 27 authors)
  11. André Messager (275 changes by 7 authors)
  12. 2018 Miami Open – Women's Singles (270 changes by 15 authors)
  13. Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal (265 changes by 76 authors)
  14. 2018 Ford World Women's Curling Championship (241 changes by 17 authors)
  15. 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament (240 changes by 54 authors)
  16. Cambridge Analytica (232 changes by 75 authors)
  17. Reactions to the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal (224 changes by 37 authors)
  18. Aristotle (223 changes by 5 authors)
  19. Ontario general election, 2018 (222 changes by 19 authors)
  20. 2017–18 Australian region cyclone season (218 changes by 23 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. Reactions to the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal (224 changes by 37 authors)
  2. 2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game (147 changes by 35 authors)
  3. Roy Webb filmography (140 changes by 2 authors)
  4. Roman Shvartsman (117 changes by 2 authors)
  5. Cyclone Marcus (115 changes by 19 authors)
  6. 1967 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships (105 changes by 2 authors)
  7. Graham Henderson (cultural entrepreneur) (104 changes by 3 authors)
  8. Colors (Indian TV Channel) (102 changes by 6 authors)
  9. Alexander Nix (98 changes by 31 authors)
  10. Aga Syed Mustafa Moosavi (94 changes by 7 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Polish collaboration with Nazi Germany
  2. Donald Trump
  3. WrestleMania 34
  4. Political correctness
  5. Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

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