the WEEKLYPEDIA

A list of the most edited Wikipedia articles and discussions from the last week.

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Articles

This week, 114,676 authors made 873,943 changes to 440,725 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. 2015 Nepal earthquake (2,343 changes by 321 authors)
  2. Dymaxion car (466 changes by 6 authors)
  3. Payback (2015) (392 changes by 51 authors)
  4. Extreme Rules (2015) (386 changes by 59 authors)
  5. Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight) (380 changes by 25 authors)
  6. Death of Freddie Gray (358 changes by 82 authors)
  7. St Padarn's Church, Llanbadarn Fawr (335 changes by 4 authors)
  8. 2015 Jisr al-Shughur offensive (329 changes by 18 authors)
  9. Deaths in 2015 (326 changes by 75 authors)
  10. Asia's Next Top Model (cycle 3) (319 changes by 20 authors)
  11. 2015 Baltimore riots (273 changes by 67 authors)
  12. Bruce Jenner (269 changes by 66 authors)
  13. Japanese in the Chinese resistance to the Empire of Japan (238 changes by 1 authors)
  14. 2015 New Zealand Open Grand Prix (237 changes by 3 authors)
  15. Bibliography of encyclopedias: history (233 changes by 4 authors)
  16. Stefan Lochner (219 changes by 6 authors)
  17. Humanitarian response to the 2015 Nepal earthquake (217 changes by 37 authors)
  18. 2015 NBA Playoffs (212 changes by 14 authors)
  19. 2015 NFL draft (211 changes by 47 authors)
  20. Avengers: Age of Ultron (210 changes by 47 authors)

New Articles

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

  1. 2015 Jisr al-Shughur offensive (329 changes by 18 authors)
  2. Humanitarian response to the 2015 Nepal earthquake (217 changes by 37 authors)
  3. List of Japanese football transfers winter 2014–15 (163 changes by 4 authors)
  4. Dan Fredinburg (149 changes by 32 authors)
  5. King of the Ring (2015) (144 changes by 24 authors)
  6. Yungen (135 changes by 12 authors)
  7. List of United States National Democratic/Whig Party presidential tickets (117 changes by 2 authors)
  8. Chips and dip (107 changes by 3 authors)
  9. Dinesh Vaghela (106 changes by 10 authors)
  10. Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus (100 changes by 3 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Hillary Rodham Clinton/April 2015 move request
  2. Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight)
  3. Cities and towns during the Syrian Civil War
  4. Ulysses S. Grant
  5. Free will

Stats

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