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, 108,417 authors made 614,936 changes to 251,372 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. 2014 Virgin Galactic crash (444 changes by 70 authors)
  2. Gamergate controversy (381 changes by 53 authors)
  3. Survivor Series (2014) (359 changes by 55 authors)
  4. Deaths in 2014 (334 changes by 73 authors)
  5. Highest-grossing Tamil films (319 changes by 24 authors)
  6. Brilliant Chang (310 changes by 3 authors)
  7. Electronic cigarette (256 changes by 26 authors)
  8. 2014 Burkinabé uprising (254 changes by 39 authors)
  9. Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa (252 changes by 53 authors)
  10. United States Senate elections, 2014 (226 changes by 40 authors)
  11. Donbass general elections, 2014 (218 changes by 28 authors)
  12. 2014 Hong Kong protests (212 changes by 20 authors)
  13. Think of the children (210 changes by 8 authors)
  14. Dark Water (Doctor Who) (203 changes by 39 authors)
  15. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (201 changes by 26 authors)
  16. Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 19) (200 changes by 15 authors)
  17. Bigg Boss 8 (199 changes by 29 authors)
  18. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (194 changes by 56 authors)
  19. Master (Doctor Who) (193 changes by 41 authors)
  20. Interstellar (film) (190 changes by 54 authors)

New Articles

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

  1. 2014 Virgin Galactic crash (444 changes by 70 authors)
  2. Brilliant Chang (310 changes by 3 authors)
  3. List of restaurants in Lagos (187 changes by 5 authors)
  4. Jane Sissmore (138 changes by 2 authors)
  5. Kate Lechmere (107 changes by 1 authors)
  6. Discovery and development of SGLT-2 inhibitors (102 changes by 5 authors)
  7. Nina Allan (97 changes by 4 authors)
  8. Port Adelaide-Norwood SANFL rivalry (90 changes by 6 authors)
  9. Shandon Sahm (88 changes by 7 authors)
  10. 2nd Battle of the Shaer gas field (85 changes by 15 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Gamergate controversy
  2. Electronic cigarette
  3. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
  4. Paris
  5. 2014 Virgin Galactic crash

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

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