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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, 109,556 authors made 692,507 changes to 263,114 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Cecil (lion) (504 changes by 83 authors)
  2. Deaths in 2015 (359 changes by 72 authors)
  3. 2015 International Champions Cup (344 changes by 44 authors)
  4. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (337 changes by 106 authors)
  5. Death of Sandra Bland (330 changes by 42 authors)
  6. 2010 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships (322 changes by 2 authors)
  7. Lord & Taylor (301 changes by 3 authors)
  8. Tunisian Arabic (289 changes by 10 authors)
  9. 2015 Lafayette shooting (282 changes by 39 authors)
  10. 2015 Tour de France (253 changes by 32 authors)
  11. MasterChef (U.S. season 6) (225 changes by 18 authors)
  12. Ramya Krishnan filmography (223 changes by 3 authors)
  13. Shilha language (223 changes by 4 authors)
  14. List of food days (221 changes by 5 authors)
  15. 2015 Men's Junior World Handball Championship (214 changes by 7 authors)
  16. Sands Hotel and Casino (208 changes by 7 authors)
  17. List of highest-grossing Indian films (197 changes by 34 authors)
  18. Shooting of Samuel DuBose (194 changes by 23 authors)
  19. List of highest-grossing Pakistani films (188 changes by 8 authors)
  20. Calvin Harris (188 changes by 9 authors)

New Articles

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

  1. Cecil (lion) (504 changes by 83 authors)
  2. 2010 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships (322 changes by 2 authors)
  3. Shooting of Samuel DuBose (194 changes by 23 authors)
  4. Mass deworming (178 changes by 8 authors)
  5. List of AEK Athens F.C. records and statistics (146 changes by 3 authors)
  6. Erle Stanley Gardner bibliography (124 changes by 2 authors)
  7. Shooting at the Island Games (109 changes by 2 authors)
  8. Andrew Phillip Almanza (92 changes by 12 authors)
  9. 2015–16 Belgian Cup (90 changes by 2 authors)
  10. List of Danish football transfers summer 2015 (79 changes by 4 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Gamergate controversy
  2. List of highest-grossing Indian films
  3. Death of Sandra Bland
  4. Carnism
  5. Tagalog

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

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