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, 113,752 authors made 711,257 changes to 289,094 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Night of Champions (2015) (600 changes by 72 authors)
  2. Volkswagen common-rail TDI diesel engine emissions controversy (415 changes by 105 authors)
  3. Jeremy Corbyn (350 changes by 58 authors)
  4. Ahmed Mohamed (student) (347 changes by 32 authors)
  5. Carly Fiorina (342 changes by 38 authors)
  6. Legalism (Chinese philosophy) (338 changes by 5 authors)
  7. 2016 AFC U-16 Championship qualification (336 changes by 24 authors)
  8. Deaths in 2015 (329 changes by 74 authors)
  9. Homo naledi (316 changes by 30 authors)
  10. List of British films of 2014 (301 changes by 3 authors)
  11. Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 21) (291 changes by 23 authors)
  12. 2015 Hajj stampede (287 changes by 75 authors)
  13. The Magician's Apprentice (Doctor Who) (280 changes by 33 authors)
  14. Amman (268 changes by 8 authors)
  15. Scream Queens (2015 TV series) (259 changes by 47 authors)
  16. 2015 FIBA Asia Championship (257 changes by 21 authors)
  17. Yogi Berra (256 changes by 58 authors)
  18. 2016 Pakistan Super League (249 changes by 24 authors)
  19. Selangor FA (235 changes by 5 authors)
  20. Pakistan Super League (229 changes by 27 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. Volkswagen common-rail TDI diesel engine emissions controversy (415 changes by 105 authors)
  2. 2015 Hajj stampede (287 changes by 75 authors)
  3. List of deaths and injuries caused by Israeli forces firing at alleged Palestinian stone-throwers (176 changes by 13 authors)
  4. Oli White (172 changes by 32 authors)
  5. RAF Bomber Command Aircrew of World War II (165 changes by 8 authors)
  6. What a Time to Be Alive (152 changes by 31 authors)
  7. 2015 Rugby World Cup statistics (144 changes by 9 authors)
  8. List of mandolinists (sorted) (134 changes by 4 authors)
  9. Pampa (horse) (115 changes by 6 authors)
  10. Angela Nazar (113 changes by 9 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Jeremy Corbyn
  2. Carly Fiorina
  3. Serbs of Croatia
  4. Kim Davis (county clerk)
  5. Volkswagen common-rail TDI diesel engine emissions controversy

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

About

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