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, 176,689 authors made 810,363 changes to 370,048 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. 2020 Singaporean general election (614 changes by 52 authors)
  2. List of films broadcast by Horror Channel (586 changes by 3 authors)
  3. Deaths in 2020 (584 changes by 93 authors)
  4. RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars (season 5) (563 changes by 183 authors)
  5. Frederica von Stade (454 changes by 8 authors)
  6. List of female poets (393 changes by 1 authors)
  7. Flag of Mississippi (356 changes by 98 authors)
  8. Hyksos (330 changes by 14 authors)
  9. Hong Kong national security law (307 changes by 85 authors)
  10. Ademir da Guia (299 changes by 7 authors)
  11. Timeline of the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests (June 2020) (288 changes by 13 authors)
  12. Carl Reiner (278 changes by 96 authors)
  13. List of Pokémon theme songs (277 changes by 11 authors)
  14. MasterChef Greece (263 changes by 86 authors)
  15. George Floyd protests (257 changes by 69 authors)
  16. Dark (TV series) (255 changes by 128 authors)
  17. Persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire (249 changes by 5 authors)
  18. List of monuments and memorials removed during the George Floyd protests (245 changes by 55 authors)
  19. Clark Gable filmography (243 changes by 1 authors)
  20. 2020 China–India skirmishes (241 changes by 43 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. G4 EA H1N1 (232 changes by 58 authors)
  2. Custodial death of P Jayaraj and Bennicks (173 changes by 16 authors)
  3. 2020 Pakistan Stock Exchange attack (169 changes by 61 authors)
  4. Walter Atherton (architect) (156 changes by 6 authors)
  5. Siya Kakkar (140 changes by 83 authors)
  6. Hemi Pomara (108 changes by 5 authors)
  7. Digital Bros (103 changes by 4 authors)
  8. Jovie Espenido (100 changes by 9 authors)
  9. Hilda Tenorio (97 changes by 3 authors)
  10. Corporate tax in Canada (94 changes by 3 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. War of 1812
  2. Kiev
  3. Killing of Rayshard Brooks
  4. Genetic Literacy Project
  5. Killing of George Floyd

Stats

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About

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