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, 103,122 authors made 630,058 changes to 267,802 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa (497 changes by 56 authors)
  2. GamerGate (433 changes by 50 authors)
  3. FIFA 15 (429 changes by 27 authors)
  4. Scottish independence referendum, 2014 (422 changes by 126 authors)
  5. I (2014 film) (391 changes by 31 authors)
  6. 2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship (338 changes by 23 authors)
  7. Deaths in 2014 (276 changes by 72 authors)
  8. 2014 Pacific hurricane season (255 changes by 28 authors)
  9. University of Hertfordshire (246 changes by 5 authors)
  10. Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 19) (246 changes by 21 authors)
  11. Andy Russell (singer) (237 changes by 5 authors)
  12. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (232 changes by 55 authors)
  13. The Beatles (terrorist cell) (229 changes by 21 authors)
  14. 2014 Pacific typhoon season (217 changes by 16 authors)
  15. Rudolf Koller (209 changes by 11 authors)
  16. America's Next Top Model (cycle 21) (206 changes by 19 authors)
  17. Ashley Tisdale (200 changes by 13 authors)
  18. Dolores (model) (195 changes by 2 authors)
  19. Shooting of Michael Brown (189 changes by 22 authors)
  20. Ramzan Sugar Mills (188 changes by 17 authors)

New Articles

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

  1. The Beatles (terrorist cell) (229 changes by 21 authors)
  2. Football at the 2014 Asian Games – Men's tournament (179 changes by 25 authors)
  3. Kira Kazantsev (167 changes by 13 authors)
  4. P.S. Krøyer's paintings of Marie (136 changes by 6 authors)
  5. Hurricane Odile (2014) (135 changes by 26 authors)
  6. Typhoon Kalmaegi (2014) (101 changes by 15 authors)
  7. Danièle Watts (101 changes by 19 authors)
  8. 1933-34 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain (84 changes by 3 authors)
  9. Wine sauce (84 changes by 1 authors)
  10. List of songs recorded by KK (83 changes by 1 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. GamerGate
  2. Shooting of Michael Brown
  3. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
  4. Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa
  5. Cities and towns during the Syrian Civil War

Stats

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About

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