Hello there! Welcome to our weekly digest of Wikipedia activity.
Articles
This week, 107,458 authors made 655,618 changes to 259,810 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:
- 2015 Australian Open (420 changes by 26 authors)
- 2015 Australian Open – Men's Singles (407 changes by 35 authors)
- Royal Rumble (2015) (406 changes by 64 authors)
- Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (373 changes by 105 authors)
- Triple J Hottest 100, 2014 (357 changes by 13 authors)
- Baby (2015 film) (346 changes by 49 authors)
- Helena Blavatsky (326 changes by 9 authors)
- Deaths in 2015 (319 changes by 82 authors)
- 2015 World Men's Handball Championship (310 changes by 26 authors)
- Enthiran (300 changes by 12 authors)
- 2015 Pro Bowl (285 changes by 45 authors)
- Bigg Boss Halla Bol! (282 changes by 39 authors)
- 2015 Australian Open – Women's Singles (273 changes by 23 authors)
- 2015 AFC Asian Cup (268 changes by 45 authors)
- American Sniper (film) (263 changes by 63 authors)
- Sarasvati River (243 changes by 12 authors)
- Imperial Japanese dissidents in the Shōwa period (243 changes by 5 authors)
- 2015 India Open Grand Prix Gold (241 changes by 5 authors)
- Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (236 changes by 103 authors)
- Justin Vivian Bond (234 changes by 6 authors)
New Articles
The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week.
- DeflateGate (191 changes by 47 authors)
- FourFiveSeconds (168 changes by 19 authors)
- Traian Brăileanu (152 changes by 4 authors)
- Claude Philippe (109 changes by 2 authors)
- Oruno Lara (102 changes by 7 authors)
- Auramics (99 changes by 5 authors)
- Largest Cites of India (93 changes by 2 authors)
- Ravindra Kumar / IAS (86 changes by 10 authors)
- Harry Gordon (journalist) (84 changes by 7 authors)
- Saga of a Married Man (83 changes by 1 authors)
Discussions
The most active discussions:
- Gamergate controversy
- Cities and towns during the Syrian Civil War
- Steven Emerson
- Indo-Aryan migration hypothesis
- Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Stats
A few numbers from last week:
- 39,739 registered users and 67,719 unregistered users made 655,618 edits to 259,810 articles
- Unregistered users made 171,741 edits to 81,686 articles
- 37 robots made 21,945 edits to 20,474 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.