Hello there! Welcome to our weekly digest of Wikipedia activity.
Articles
This week, 106,218 authors made 722,788 changes to 310,009 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:
- 2015 Charlie Hebdo magazine shooting (1,689 changes by 355 authors)
- Gisborne City AFC (493 changes by 9 authors)
- Deaths in 2015 (408 changes by 83 authors)
- Iowa Hill, California (384 changes by 2 authors)
- Bess Myerson (373 changes by 28 authors)
- Tara Strong (368 changes by 11 authors)
- Stuart Scott (354 changes by 68 authors)
- 2015 World Junior Ice Hockey Championship (347 changes by 39 authors)
- 2015 Cricket World Cup squads (314 changes by 19 authors)
- Waldorf Astoria New York (307 changes by 9 authors)
- Donna Douglas (300 changes by 59 authors)
- 2014–15 NFL playoffs (300 changes by 37 authors)
- Death of Leelah Alcorn (297 changes by 44 authors)
- Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 (295 changes by 73 authors)
- Citizen Kane (293 changes by 8 authors)
- Charlie Hebdo (279 changes by 121 authors)
- 2015 Hopman Cup (266 changes by 24 authors)
- 2015 BDO World Darts Championship (250 changes by 21 authors)
- 2014–15 Big Bash League season (243 changes by 10 authors)
- Demob suit (233 changes by 2 authors)
New Articles
The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week.
- Charlie Hebdo shooting (1,689 changes by 355 authors)
- Irataba (228 changes by 2 authors)
- Bigg Boss Halla Bol! (163 changes by 26 authors)
- Je suis Charlie (146 changes by 44 authors)
- Timeline of the war in Donbass (January 2015–present) (125 changes by 8 authors)
- Charb (122 changes by 53 authors)
- The Final episode of The Colbert Report (120 changes by 6 authors)
- Wa (watercraft) (119 changes by 3 authors)
- MV Hoegh Osaka (117 changes by 21 authors)
- Kidnapping of Moisés Sánchez Cerezo (113 changes by 3 authors)
Discussions
The most active discussions:
- Charlie Hebdo massacre
- Shooting of Michael Brown
- Gamergate controversy
- Death of Leelah Alcorn
- Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Stats
A few numbers from last week:
- 39,730 registered users and 66,488 unregistered users made 722,788 edits to 310,009 articles
- Unregistered users made 170,848 edits to 81,662 articles
- 39 robots made 58,468 edits to 55,348 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.