the WEEKLYPEDIA

A list of the most edited Wikipedia articles and discussions from the last week.

Delivered every Friday by email.

Hello there! Welcome to our weekly digest of Wikipedia activity.

Articles

This week, 102,618 authors made 620,899 changes to 257,037 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Recreational drug use (468 changes by 6 authors)
  2. 2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship (421 changes by 25 authors)
  3. Aaron Kosminski (309 changes by 67 authors)
  4. Deaths in 2014 (303 changes by 69 authors)
  5. Italian Navy (273 changes by 7 authors)
  6. Shooting of Michael Brown (271 changes by 31 authors)
  7. FIFA 15 (244 changes by 27 authors)
  8. 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup (243 changes by 23 authors)
  9. Andy Russell (singer) (235 changes by 6 authors)
  10. 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict (223 changes by 33 authors)
  11. Montana Vigilantes (213 changes by 2 authors)
  12. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (212 changes by 49 authors)
  13. Four (One Direction album) (210 changes by 50 authors)
  14. IPhone 6 (208 changes by 63 authors)
  15. 2014 Pacific typhoon season (206 changes by 16 authors)
  16. 2014 World Wrestling Championships (204 changes by 13 authors)
  17. Gorakhdham Express (198 changes by 5 authors)
  18. Mary Kom (film) (187 changes by 36 authors)
  19. List of current Star Magic artists (184 changes by 3 authors)
  20. America's Got Talent (season 9) (184 changes by 15 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week.

  1. Four (One Direction album) (210 changes by 50 authors)
  2. List of current Star Magic artists (184 changes by 3 authors)
  3. The Caravan Club (Endell Street) (143 changes by 2 authors)
  4. Pinaki Chattopadhyay (142 changes by 12 authors)
  5. Clifford Hall (painter) (138 changes by 1 authors)
  6. A. K. A. Firoze Noon (117 changes by 6 authors)
  7. Jack Neave (112 changes by 3 authors)
  8. List of former Star Magic artists (110 changes by 2 authors)
  9. List of weapons of the Philippine Commonwealth Army (108 changes by 5 authors)
  10. Jammu and Kashmir floods, 2014 (105 changes by 23 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Shooting of Michael Brown
  2. GamerGate
  3. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
  4. Cities and towns during the Syrian Civil War
  5. 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

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.

Learn more on the Hatnote blog.