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:
- 2015 Australian Open – Men's Singles (553 changes by 30 authors)
- Charlie Hebdo shooting (409 changes by 73 authors)
- 2015 Australian Open (403 changes by 21 authors)
- Deaths in 2015 (370 changes by 84 authors)
- 2015 Australian Open – Women's Singles (357 changes by 30 authors)
- Royal Rumble (2015) (352 changes by 51 authors)
- American Sniper (film) (344 changes by 68 authors)
- 2015 AFC Asian Cup (336 changes by 46 authors)
- 2015 Pro Bowl (321 changes by 33 authors)
- 2015 World Men's Handball Championship (316 changes by 29 authors)
- 2015 ICC World Cricket League Division Two (295 changes by 20 authors)
- Bigg Boss Halla Bol! (289 changes by 29 authors)
- Enthiran (280 changes by 13 authors)
- Second Battle of Donetsk Airport (231 changes by 25 authors)
- Marie Antoinette (210 changes by 12 authors)
- UFC Fight Night: McGregor vs. Siver (207 changes by 24 authors)
- Bibliography of encyclopedias: general biographies (204 changes by 2 authors)
- 2015 India Open Grand Prix Gold (203 changes by 3 authors)
- List of the busiest airports in Europe (200 changes by 12 authors)
- Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (197 changes by 65 authors)
New Articles
The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week.
- List of shipwrecks in the 1740s (181 changes by 3 authors)
- Moïse Lévy de Benzion (146 changes by 7 authors)
- List of numbered documents of the US War department (135 changes by 5 authors)
- Chrisann Brennan (130 changes by 4 authors)
- Steve gatena (115 changes by 5 authors)
- Bill Denny (Australian politician) (112 changes by 10 authors)
- Wilhelm Nikolaus Suksdorf (109 changes by 6 authors)
- Phil Agcaoili (106 changes by 5 authors)
- Pasquino Corso (95 changes by 2 authors)
- April in Paris Ball (93 changes by 6 authors)
Discussions
The most active discussions:
- Gamergate controversy
- Charlie Hebdo shooting
- Bhutanese passport
- Cities and towns during the Syrian Civil War
- Gordon B. Hinckley
Stats
A few numbers from last week:
- 39,402 registered users and 67,060 unregistered users made 666,205 edits to 268,261 articles
- Unregistered users made 169,670 edits to 80,467 articles
- 42 robots made 26,722 edits to 24,351 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.