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, 106,284 authors made 706,476 changes to 296,198 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. 2015 Copenhagen attack (708 changes by 98 authors)
  2. 2015 Chapel Hill shooting (389 changes by 30 authors)
  3. Deaths in 2015 (337 changes by 70 authors)
  4. Hästens (310 changes by 18 authors)
  5. Battle of Debaltseve (307 changes by 39 authors)
  6. 2015 in sports (294 changes by 8 authors)
  7. 2015 Cricket World Cup (288 changes by 63 authors)
  8. 2015 Dubai Tennis Championships – Women's Singles (284 changes by 17 authors)
  9. Fifty Shades of Grey (film) (279 changes by 70 authors)
  10. If You're Reading This It's Too Late (268 changes by 52 authors)
  11. 2015 Welsh Open (snooker) (264 changes by 17 authors)
  12. List of Brooklyn streets (235 changes by 4 authors)
  13. Bitcoin (225 changes by 19 authors)
  14. Kingsman: The Secret Service (216 changes by 40 authors)
  15. Stork Club (214 changes by 7 authors)
  16. Bogor Botanical Gardens (212 changes by 3 authors)
  17. Maskirovka (198 changes by 7 authors)
  18. Ivo Josipović (196 changes by 12 authors)
  19. Aromanians (190 changes by 6 authors)
  20. Dumsor (188 changes by 51 authors)

New Articles

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

  1. 2015 Copenhagen shootings (708 changes by 98 authors)
  2. Robert René Meyer-Sée (185 changes by 6 authors)
  3. Cyclone Marcia (156 changes by 14 authors)
  4. EastEnders Live Week (141 changes by 14 authors)
  5. Chuckie Campbell (138 changes by 10 authors)
  6. Murder of Özgecan Aslan (119 changes by 37 authors)
  7. Snita (100 changes by 10 authors)
  8. 2015 Budweiser Duels (95 changes by 9 authors)
  9. Usun Apau Plieran (92 changes by 3 authors)
  10. The Notre Dame de Paris Mosque (90 changes by 8 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Gamergate controversy
  2. Cities and towns during the Syrian Civil War
  3. 2015 Copenhagen attacks
  4. Bitcoin
  5. Gun show loophole

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

About

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