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:
- India at the 2014 Asian Games (811 changes by 43 authors)
- Shellshock (software bug) (571 changes by 74 authors)
- 9.27 Assembly at Tim Mei Avenue (565 changes by 124 authors)
- Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa (462 changes by 79 authors)
- Iran at the 2014 Asian Games (382 changes by 15 authors)
- Guardia di Finanza (366 changes by 5 authors)
- Deaths in 2014 (321 changes by 69 authors)
- 2014 Asian Games medal table (320 changes by 34 authors)
- List of music students by teacher (315 changes by 2 authors)
- 2014 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship (275 changes by 9 authors)
- 2014 Champions League Twenty20 (258 changes by 16 authors)
- Chandramukhi (256 changes by 5 authors)
- Hakka people (253 changes by 6 authors)
- International airport (253 changes by 17 authors)
- Gamergate controversy (248 changes by 37 authors)
- Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (212 changes by 43 authors)
- Occupy Central with Love and Peace (208 changes by 60 authors)
- 2014 Pacific typhoon season (207 changes by 13 authors)
- Strictly Come Dancing (series 12) (206 changes by 14 authors)
- 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.
- 2014 Hong Kong protests (565 changes by 124 authors)
- Windows 10 (170 changes by 32 authors)
- Ebola virus in Dallas, Texas (150 changes by 20 authors)
- List of hot beverages (144 changes by 4 authors)
- Iranian-led intervention in Iraq (133 changes by 11 authors)
- Tomorrow's Modern Boxes (107 changes by 10 authors)
- FoodShootr (102 changes by 7 authors)
- 2014 Ebola virus epidemic in Guinea (97 changes by 8 authors)
- Francis valentino (97 changes by 10 authors)
- 2014 China Open – Men's Singles (91 changes by 16 authors)
Discussions
The most active discussions:
- Gamergate controversy
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa
- Islamic State (Caliphate in 21st Century)
- Shooting of Michael Brown
Stats
A few numbers from last week:
- 37,137 registered users and 66,402 unregistered users made 600,713 edits to 241,001 articles
- Unregistered users made 157,584 edits to 76,608 articles
- 37 robots made 23,573 edits to 21,367 articles
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.