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, 107,910 authors made 622,904 changes to 254,020 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. 2014 shootings at Parliament Hill, Ottawa (749 changes by 87 authors)
  2. Gamergate controversy (711 changes by 74 authors)
  3. Republic of China Army (657 changes by 4 authors)
  4. 2014 World Series (502 changes by 58 authors)
  5. Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa (467 changes by 94 authors)
  6. Highest-grossing Tamil films (393 changes by 32 authors)
  7. Marysville Pilchuck High School shooting (378 changes by 41 authors)
  8. Deaths in 2014 (340 changes by 76 authors)
  9. Ebola virus disease in the United States (318 changes by 64 authors)
  10. 2014 ICC World Cricket League Division Three (309 changes by 23 authors)
  11. Survivor Series (2014) (290 changes by 44 authors)
  12. 2014 Hong Kong protests (263 changes by 25 authors)
  13. Ebola virus disease (259 changes by 51 authors)
  14. Development and discovery of SSRI drugs (254 changes by 12 authors)
  15. Tha Carter V (223 changes by 23 authors)
  16. Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin (219 changes by 7 authors)
  17. Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2014 (216 changes by 32 authors)
  18. List of NBA Playoffs Series (210 changes by 2 authors)
  19. Ego death (192 changes by 12 authors)
  20. 2014 BNP Paribas Masters – Singles (190 changes by 22 authors)

New Articles

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

  1. Marysville Pilchuck High School shooting (378 changes by 41 authors)
  2. List of NBA Playoffs Series (210 changes by 2 authors)
  3. 2014 BNP Paribas Masters – Singles (190 changes by 22 authors)
  4. Euphemia Lamb (163 changes by 3 authors)
  5. Stefan Kutzsche (123 changes by 5 authors)
  6. Yehuda Glick (122 changes by 16 authors)
  7. Au5 (109 changes by 7 authors)
  8. Wolfgang Kaiser (KgU) (107 changes by 3 authors)
  9. Sunita Devi (101 changes by 1 authors)
  10. Ebola virus disease in Mali (101 changes by 9 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Gamergate controversy
  2. Electronic cigarette
  3. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
  4. Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa
  5. 2014 shootings at Parliament Hill, Ottawa

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

About

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