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, 104,362 authors made 710,366 changes to 316,407 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Kamikaze (Eminem album) (788 changes by 96 authors)
  2. Deaths in 2018 (479 changes by 83 authors)
  3. Fire at the National Museum of Brazil (380 changes by 106 authors)
  4. 2018 US Open (tennis) (354 changes by 25 authors)
  5. Our Lady of Pompeii Church (Manhattan) (348 changes by 4 authors)
  6. 2018 Atlantic hurricane season (339 changes by 57 authors)
  7. Offshore financial centre (302 changes by 3 authors)
  8. All In (professional wrestling event) (291 changes by 42 authors)
  9. 2018 Six-red World Championship (286 changes by 9 authors)
  10. FOCSA Building (266 changes by 4 authors)
  11. French Renaissance architecture (243 changes by 6 authors)
  12. 2018 Pacific hurricane season (220 changes by 29 authors)
  13. 2018 Hyderabad Open (badminton) (219 changes by 4 authors)
  14. Alexander Zakharchenko (214 changes by 72 authors)
  15. 2018–19 ICC World Twenty20 Europe Qualifier (204 changes by 7 authors)
  16. Arif Alvi (202 changes by 24 authors)
  17. History of lute-family instruments (199 changes by 4 authors)
  18. Vermont House of Representatives elections, 2018 (198 changes by 3 authors)
  19. Miss Earth 2018 (197 changes by 10 authors)
  20. Stone crosses in Cornwall (194 changes by 4 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. National Museum of Brazil fire (380 changes by 106 authors)
  2. Stone crosses in Cornwall (194 changes by 4 authors)
  3. IZONE (181 changes by 29 authors)
  4. Chika Nwobi (133 changes by 7 authors)
  5. Thomas King (slave trader) (129 changes by 4 authors)
  6. 2018 US Open – Boys' Singles (125 changes by 9 authors)
  7. 2018 Oracle Challenger Series – Chicago – Women's Singles (123 changes by 7 authors)
  8. W. Samuel Patten (111 changes by 14 authors)
  9. 2018 US Open – Girls' Singles (110 changes by 8 authors)
  10. Tropical Storm Gordon (2018) (108 changes by 36 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Jeremy Corbyn
  2. Greece
  3. Biblical criticism
  4. George Washington
  5. Szlachta

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

About

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