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, 117,605 authors made 713,469 changes to 285,365 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Deaths in 2015 (450 changes by 75 authors)
  2. Canadian federal election, 2015 (370 changes by 97 authors)
  3. Justin Trudeau (362 changes by 115 authors)
  4. 2015 National League Championship Series (308 changes by 31 authors)
  5. 2015 French Super Series (301 changes by 10 authors)
  6. 2015 American League Championship Series (282 changes by 21 authors)
  7. 2015 Pacific hurricane season (270 changes by 35 authors)
  8. The 64th Miss Universe Pageant (258 changes by 19 authors)
  9. 2015 WTA Finals (256 changes by 17 authors)
  10. Early history of American football (215 changes by 12 authors)
  11. Revival (Selena Gomez album) (215 changes by 38 authors)
  12. Ramana Maharshi (212 changes by 9 authors)
  13. Confident (album) (212 changes by 36 authors)
  14. Cryptome (210 changes by 15 authors)
  15. Thomas Jefferson (204 changes by 8 authors)
  16. The Voice (U.S. season 9) (201 changes by 19 authors)
  17. Lisgoold GAA (198 changes by 9 authors)
  18. List of British films of 2012 (192 changes by 2 authors)
  19. Nadigar Sangam (192 changes by 10 authors)
  20. Crimson Peak (191 changes by 36 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. Early history of American football (215 changes by 12 authors)
  2. Lisgoold GAA (198 changes by 9 authors)
  3. List of people whose parent commited suicide (188 changes by 4 authors)
  4. Ilan Moskovitch (149 changes by 3 authors)
  5. Political positions of the Democratic Party presidential primary candidates, 2016 (148 changes by 9 authors)
  6. Bill Anagnos (133 changes by 11 authors)
  7. Typhoon Koppu (2015) (114 changes by 19 authors)
  8. 2015 USAFL National Championships (110 changes by 5 authors)
  9. Aleppo Offensives 2015 (109 changes by 15 authors)
  10. Modern history of American football (105 changes by 9 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Political correctness
  2. Elizabeth II
  3. Cities and towns during the Syrian Civil War
  4. Serbs of Croatia
  5. Complex affine space

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

About

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