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, 98,270 authors made 559,376 changes to 231,525 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. India at the 2014 Asian Games (604 changes by 23 authors)
  2. Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa (512 changes by 55 authors)
  3. List of music students by teacher (470 changes by 6 authors)
  4. Deaths in 2014 (309 changes by 74 authors)
  5. Lichen (302 changes by 12 authors)
  6. Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 19) (296 changes by 19 authors)
  7. Mars Orbiter Mission (289 changes by 86 authors)
  8. GamerGate (277 changes by 42 authors)
  9. Philippines at the 2014 Asian Games (267 changes by 4 authors)
  10. Indonesia at the 2014 Asian Games (237 changes by 6 authors)
  11. South Korea at the 2014 Asian Games (233 changes by 6 authors)
  12. 2014 Wuhan Open – Singles (232 changes by 21 authors)
  13. 2014 military intervention against ISIS (231 changes by 51 authors)
  14. Chandramukhi (225 changes by 4 authors)
  15. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (224 changes by 55 authors)
  16. IHeartRadio Music Festival (224 changes by 15 authors)
  17. 2014 American intervention in Syria (212 changes by 30 authors)
  18. Hakka people (210 changes by 7 authors)
  19. Carlos Ghosn (206 changes by 3 authors)
  20. 2014 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship (205 changes by 7 authors)

New Articles

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

  1. 2014 Jadavpur University protests (201 changes by 43 authors)
  2. 2014 Asian Games medal table (195 changes by 36 authors)
  3. Apoica flavissima (149 changes by 6 authors)
  4. List of pasta dishes (126 changes by 3 authors)
  5. Hierarchical closeness (114 changes by 5 authors)
  6. Sybra (98 changes by 1 authors)
  7. William Lofland Dudley (98 changes by 3 authors)
  8. Jun Itami (88 changes by 7 authors)
  9. Tiella (86 changes by 2 authors)
  10. 2014 ATP Shenzhen Open – Singles (86 changes by 9 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. GamerGate
  2. Neil deGrasse Tyson
  3. Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
  4. Paris
  5. Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

About

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