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, 106,462 authors made 666,205 changes to 268,261 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. 2015 Australian Open – Men's Singles (553 changes by 30 authors)
  2. Charlie Hebdo shooting (409 changes by 73 authors)
  3. 2015 Australian Open (403 changes by 21 authors)
  4. Deaths in 2015 (370 changes by 84 authors)
  5. 2015 Australian Open – Women's Singles (357 changes by 30 authors)
  6. Royal Rumble (2015) (352 changes by 51 authors)
  7. American Sniper (film) (344 changes by 68 authors)
  8. 2015 AFC Asian Cup (336 changes by 46 authors)
  9. 2015 Pro Bowl (321 changes by 33 authors)
  10. 2015 World Men's Handball Championship (316 changes by 29 authors)
  11. 2015 ICC World Cricket League Division Two (295 changes by 20 authors)
  12. Bigg Boss Halla Bol! (289 changes by 29 authors)
  13. Enthiran (280 changes by 13 authors)
  14. Second Battle of Donetsk Airport (231 changes by 25 authors)
  15. Marie Antoinette (210 changes by 12 authors)
  16. UFC Fight Night: McGregor vs. Siver (207 changes by 24 authors)
  17. Bibliography of encyclopedias: general biographies (204 changes by 2 authors)
  18. 2015 India Open Grand Prix Gold (203 changes by 3 authors)
  19. List of the busiest airports in Europe (200 changes by 12 authors)
  20. Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (197 changes by 65 authors)

New Articles

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

  1. List of shipwrecks in the 1740s (181 changes by 3 authors)
  2. Moïse Lévy de Benzion (146 changes by 7 authors)
  3. List of numbered documents of the US War department (135 changes by 5 authors)
  4. Chrisann Brennan (130 changes by 4 authors)
  5. Steve gatena (115 changes by 5 authors)
  6. Bill Denny (Australian politician) (112 changes by 10 authors)
  7. Wilhelm Nikolaus Suksdorf (109 changes by 6 authors)
  8. Phil Agcaoili (106 changes by 5 authors)
  9. Pasquino Corso (95 changes by 2 authors)
  10. April in Paris Ball (93 changes by 6 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Gamergate controversy
  2. Charlie Hebdo shooting
  3. Bhutanese passport
  4. Cities and towns during the Syrian Civil War
  5. Gordon B. Hinckley

Stats

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