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, 83,181 authors made 589,092 changes to 261,749 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. The Interview (2014 film) (479 changes by 110 authors)
  2. List of United States post office murals (381 changes by 6 authors)
  3. 2014 Sydney hostage crisis (365 changes by 50 authors)
  4. Deaths in 2014 (303 changes by 84 authors)
  5. Shooting of Michael Brown (278 changes by 30 authors)
  6. The Pinkprint (274 changes by 40 authors)
  7. Ahmet Güneştekin (266 changes by 5 authors)
  8. Joe Cocker (243 changes by 57 authors)
  9. Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (238 changes by 7 authors)
  10. First Australian Imperial Force (225 changes by 7 authors)
  11. Rebel Heart (Madonna album) (224 changes by 30 authors)
  12. Strictly Come Dancing (series 12) (215 changes by 21 authors)
  13. 2015 PDC World Darts Championship (213 changes by 18 authors)
  14. PK (film) (210 changes by 53 authors)
  15. University of Science and Technology, Meghalaya (207 changes by 7 authors)
  16. 2014 NYPD officer killings (207 changes by 33 authors)
  17. Caffeine (193 changes by 8 authors)
  18. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (193 changes by 39 authors)
  19. Ghana cedi (189 changes by 4 authors)
  20. Korra (181 changes by 29 authors)

New Articles

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

  1. Rebel Heart (Madonna album) (224 changes by 30 authors)
  2. 2014 NYPD officer killings (207 changes by 33 authors)
  3. List of feminist comic books (154 changes by 15 authors)
  4. 2015 Malaysia Open Grand Prix Gold (135 changes by 4 authors)
  5. Universal Medicine (134 changes by 22 authors)
  6. Steve Johnson (special effects artist) (130 changes by 12 authors)
  7. Lizard squad (112 changes by 25 authors)
  8. 2015 Grêmio F.B.P.A. season (111 changes by 2 authors)
  9. Adoration of the Magi (Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi) (107 changes by 6 authors)
  10. Dancing with the Stars (Lebanese season 3) (104 changes by 5 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Electronic cigarette
  2. Gamergate controversy
  3. Honorary Aryan
  4. Shooting of Michael Brown
  5. Korra (The Legend of Korra)

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

About

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