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, 103,539 authors made 600,713 changes to 241,001 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. India at the 2014 Asian Games (811 changes by 43 authors)
  2. Shellshock (software bug) (571 changes by 74 authors)
  3. 9.27 Assembly at Tim Mei Avenue (565 changes by 124 authors)
  4. Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa (462 changes by 79 authors)
  5. Iran at the 2014 Asian Games (382 changes by 15 authors)
  6. Guardia di Finanza (366 changes by 5 authors)
  7. Deaths in 2014 (321 changes by 69 authors)
  8. 2014 Asian Games medal table (320 changes by 34 authors)
  9. List of music students by teacher (315 changes by 2 authors)
  10. 2014 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship (275 changes by 9 authors)
  11. 2014 Champions League Twenty20 (258 changes by 16 authors)
  12. Chandramukhi (256 changes by 5 authors)
  13. Hakka people (253 changes by 6 authors)
  14. International airport (253 changes by 17 authors)
  15. Gamergate controversy (248 changes by 37 authors)
  16. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (212 changes by 43 authors)
  17. Occupy Central with Love and Peace (208 changes by 60 authors)
  18. 2014 Pacific typhoon season (207 changes by 13 authors)
  19. Strictly Come Dancing (series 12) (206 changes by 14 authors)
  20. Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 19) (199 changes by 18 authors)

New Articles

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

  1. 2014 Hong Kong protests (565 changes by 124 authors)
  2. Windows 10 (170 changes by 32 authors)
  3. Ebola virus in Dallas, Texas (150 changes by 20 authors)
  4. List of hot beverages (144 changes by 4 authors)
  5. Iranian-led intervention in Iraq (133 changes by 11 authors)
  6. Tomorrow's Modern Boxes (107 changes by 10 authors)
  7. FoodShootr (102 changes by 7 authors)
  8. 2014 Ebola virus epidemic in Guinea (97 changes by 8 authors)
  9. Francis valentino (97 changes by 10 authors)
  10. 2014 China Open – Men's Singles (91 changes by 16 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Gamergate controversy
  2. Neil deGrasse Tyson
  3. Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa
  4. Islamic State (Caliphate in 21st Century)
  5. Shooting of Michael Brown

Stats

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About

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