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, 113,392 authors made 695,679 changes to 276,632 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. 2015 Hajj stampede (1,078 changes by 131 authors)
  2. Ahmed Mohamed clock incident (538 changes by 43 authors)
  3. 2015 FIBA Asia Championship (505 changes by 28 authors)
  4. Umpqua Community College shooting (502 changes by 73 authors)
  5. Selangor FA (480 changes by 7 authors)
  6. Paul Mc Kevitt (436 changes by 10 authors)
  7. List of shipwrecks in 1919 (435 changes by 3 authors)
  8. Frank Sinatra (400 changes by 12 authors)
  9. Louis Armstrong (305 changes by 14 authors)
  10. Deaths in 2015 (287 changes by 78 authors)
  11. Volkswagen emissions testing scandal (280 changes by 51 authors)
  12. The Voice (U.S. season 9) (271 changes by 20 authors)
  13. Don't Say You Love Me (M2M song) (267 changes by 7 authors)
  14. Pregabalin (265 changes by 12 authors)
  15. 2015 Wuhan Open – Singles (253 changes by 15 authors)
  16. 2015 Women's European Volleyball Championship (248 changes by 14 authors)
  17. Carly Fiorina (245 changes by 32 authors)
  18. List of mandolinists (sorted) (244 changes by 7 authors)
  19. 2015 Thailand Open Grand Prix Gold (243 changes by 3 authors)
  20. Josh Scobee (238 changes by 20 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. Umpqua Community College shooting (502 changes by 73 authors)
  2. Benjamin Z. Kedar (185 changes by 5 authors)
  3. Kelly Gissendaner (169 changes by 44 authors)
  4. General debate of the seventieth session of the United Nations General Assembly (155 changes by 7 authors)
  5. 2015 Tashkent Open – Singles (140 changes by 8 authors)
  6. Pierce Butler, 4th Viscount Ikerrin (124 changes by 2 authors)
  7. September 2015 Russian air raids in Syria (115 changes by 17 authors)
  8. Typhoon Dujuan (2015) (98 changes by 7 authors)
  9. 2015 Malaysian Open, Kuala Lumpur – Singles (87 changes by 9 authors)
  10. TRAPSOUL (Bryson Tiller Album) (86 changes by 11 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Ahmed Mohamed clock incident
  2. Elizabeth II
  3. 2015 Hajj stampede
  4. Carly Fiorina
  5. Jeremy Corbyn

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

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