Hello there! Welcome to our weekly digest of Wikipedia activity.
Articles
This week, 112,117 authors made 749,098 changes to 307,615 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:
- Murder of Alison Parker and Adam Ward (750 changes by 109 authors)
- 2015 Arras attack (573 changes by 82 authors)
- Shoreham Airport disaster (500 changes by 84 authors)
- Deaths in 2015 (388 changes by 84 authors)
- Big Brother 17 (U.S.) (365 changes by 37 authors)
- SummerSlam (2015) (356 changes by 67 authors)
- PAOK FC (347 changes by 8 authors)
- 2015 Vietnam Open Grand Prix (304 changes by 2 authors)
- Trinity Chain Pier (303 changes by 4 authors)
- 2015 MTV Europe Music Awards (299 changes by 20 authors)
- Alf Ramsey (287 changes by 9 authors)
- Frederick Achom (275 changes by 8 authors)
- AfroBasket 2015 (273 changes by 13 authors)
- Palazzo Parisio (Valletta) (267 changes by 5 authors)
- Night of Champions (2015) (265 changes by 41 authors)
- Until Dawn (259 changes by 29 authors)
- 2015 Winston-Salem Open – Singles (250 changes by 17 authors)
- Kinross Gold (244 changes by 3 authors)
- 2015 US Open – Women's Singles Qualifying (243 changes by 10 authors)
- 2015 Pacific hurricane season (229 changes by 24 authors)
New Articles
The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week
- Murders of Alison Parker and Adam Ward (750 changes by 109 authors)
- 2015 Thalys attack (573 changes by 82 authors)
- Shoreham Airport disaster (500 changes by 84 authors)
- Trinity Chain Pier (303 changes by 4 authors)
- Dragonara Palace (195 changes by 4 authors)
- D.A.V. Public School, Balasore (118 changes by 4 authors)
- Hedley Sparks (110 changes by 2 authors)
- Xavier West (108 changes by 12 authors)
- List of brunch foods (108 changes by 4 authors)
- Isaac Mackie (105 changes by 3 authors)
Discussions
The most active discussions:
- Murder of Alison Parker and Adam Ward
- Genetically modified food
- Carly Fiorina
- Josh Duggar
- Trypophobia
Stats
A few numbers from last week:
- 36,412 registered users and 75,705 unregistered users made 749,098 edits to 307,615 articles
- Unregistered users made 194,413 edits to 86,962 articles
- 38 robots made 47,309 edits to 43,785 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.