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, 115,248 authors made 708,526 changes to 285,414 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Jeremy Corbyn (724 changes by 137 authors)
  2. Homo naledi (524 changes by 61 authors)
  3. Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race (458 changes by 24 authors)
  4. Moses Malone (444 changes by 47 authors)
  5. Mecca crane collapse (404 changes by 108 authors)
  6. Chess World Cup 2015 (398 changes by 9 authors)
  7. Florida Gators football (394 changes by 9 authors)
  8. European migrant crisis (365 changes by 67 authors)
  9. Deaths in 2015 (338 changes by 69 authors)
  10. List of WWE Divas Champions (305 changes by 34 authors)
  11. Selangor FA (302 changes by 8 authors)
  12. Malcolm Turnbull (292 changes by 104 authors)
  13. Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 21) (281 changes by 25 authors)
  14. The Naked Brothers Band (TV series) (253 changes by 2 authors)
  15. Tony Abbott (250 changes by 81 authors)
  16. MasterChef (U.S. season 6) (246 changes by 16 authors)
  17. WWE Divas Championship (244 changes by 29 authors)
  18. List of shipwrecks in August 1944 (231 changes by 5 authors)
  19. Flavia Pennetta (211 changes by 46 authors)
  20. Kim Davis (county clerk) (204 changes by 30 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. Mecca crane collapse (404 changes by 108 authors)
  2. Joseph Bryan Nelson (180 changes by 4 authors)
  3. 2015 Southeast Asian haze (166 changes by 20 authors)
  4. 2015 Jhabua explosion (139 changes by 39 authors)
  5. Avishek Majumder (132 changes by 11 authors)
  6. Campeiro (124 changes by 7 authors)
  7. Ahmed Mohamed (student) (123 changes by 21 authors)
  8. 2015 Illapel earthquake (116 changes by 32 authors)
  9. Taco stand (102 changes by 1 authors)
  10. Anthony Ingrassia (101 changes by 4 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Kim Davis (county clerk)
  2. Jeremy Corbyn
  3. Shaun King (activist)
  4. Kevin Folta
  5. United States

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

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.

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