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, 104,712 authors made 622,667 changes to 264,881 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Interstellar (film) (382 changes by 98 authors)
  2. Gamergate controversy (353 changes by 53 authors)
  3. Deaths in 2014 (322 changes by 70 authors)
  4. Big Hero 6 (film) (308 changes by 55 authors)
  5. 2014 Hong Kong protests (299 changes by 23 authors)
  6. 2014 MTV Europe Music Awards (293 changes by 26 authors)
  7. Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa (292 changes by 40 authors)
  8. Survivor Series (2014) (290 changes by 59 authors)
  9. United States Congress members who died in office (285 changes by 3 authors)
  10. Mussolini's death (283 changes by 4 authors)
  11. Sports in Philadelphia (282 changes by 4 authors)
  12. Philae (spacecraft) (249 changes by 93 authors)
  13. Operation Onymous (243 changes by 9 authors)
  14. Tawhid (229 changes by 4 authors)
  15. The Endless River (226 changes by 34 authors)
  16. Myles Munroe (226 changes by 38 authors)
  17. Electronic cigarette (226 changes by 22 authors)
  18. Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 19) (209 changes by 19 authors)
  19. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (205 changes by 33 authors)
  20. Highest-grossing Tamil films (204 changes by 19 authors)

New Articles

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

  1. Spectral estimation of multidimensional signals (204 changes by 4 authors)
  2. Yossi Atia (114 changes by 6 authors)
  3. Shaikh Muhibullah Allahabadi (101 changes by 13 authors)
  4. Theodor Wolff (89 changes by 3 authors)
  5. John St Leger (1674–1743) (84 changes by 4 authors)
  6. Happiness in Judaism (81 changes by 1 authors)
  7. The Flower Under Dark Shadow (72 changes by 12 authors)
  8. List of The Blacklist characters (72 changes by 7 authors)
  9. 2D Adaptive Filters (71 changes by 7 authors)
  10. 2014 Legionella outbreak in Portugal (67 changes by 15 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Gamergate controversy
  2. Electronic cigarette
  3. Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
  4. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
  5. Cities and towns during the Syrian Civil War

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

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