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, 108,303 authors made 807,947 changes to 380,592 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Charleston church massacre (992 changes by 132 authors)
  2. 2015 NBA draft (391 changes by 44 authors)
  3. Deaths in 2015 (384 changes by 71 authors)
  4. Inside Out (2015 film) (380 changes by 54 authors)
  5. Batman: Arkham Knight (373 changes by 67 authors)
  6. 2015 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles Qualifying (332 changes by 16 authors)
  7. Khia (330 changes by 29 authors)
  8. James Horner (326 changes by 75 authors)
  9. List of Game of Thrones characters (318 changes by 8 authors)
  10. ABCD 2 (280 changes by 36 authors)
  11. 2015 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles Qualifying (273 changes by 12 authors)
  12. 2015 Aegon International – Singles (273 changes by 16 authors)
  13. Big Brother 17 (U.S.) (257 changes by 31 authors)
  14. 2015 FIVB Volleyball World League (255 changes by 22 authors)
  15. 2015 Copa América (237 changes by 44 authors)
  16. 2015 Aegon Open Nottingham – Men's Singles (234 changes by 10 authors)
  17. 2015 Pakistan heat wave (232 changes by 56 authors)
  18. Raymond Cattell (229 changes by 2 authors)
  19. Good For You (song) (223 changes by 23 authors)
  20. Caste system in India (219 changes by 15 authors)

New Articles

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

  1. 2015 Pakistani heat wave (232 changes by 56 authors)
  2. Zeuss (189 changes by 5 authors)
  3. Tang Dynasty Administrative Divisions (161 changes by 2 authors)
  4. MT Orkim Harmony hijacking (151 changes by 11 authors)
  5. Gino Polli (138 changes by 7 authors)
  6. Fundamentals of Robotic Surgery (129 changes by 5 authors)
  7. Gregory Boyle (psychologist) (119 changes by 8 authors)
  8. No Sleeep (102 changes by 13 authors)
  9. Per Holknekt (94 changes by 17 authors)
  10. Experimental beer (94 changes by 2 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Charleston church massacre
  2. Gamergate controversy
  3. Caste system in India
  4. Nikola Tesla/Nationality and ethnicity
  5. Cities and towns during the Syrian Civil War

Stats

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