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, 115,804 authors made 733,123 changes to 297,870 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Malheur incident (763 changes by 71 authors)
  2. Deaths in 2016 (461 changes by 110 authors)
  3. Nimr al-Nimr (356 changes by 99 authors)
  4. Air Mail scandal (331 changes by 5 authors)
  5. 2016 North Korean nuclear test (327 changes by 77 authors)
  6. 2016 Pathankot attack (281 changes by 43 authors)
  7. Assured Clear Distance Ahead (269 changes by 3 authors)
  8. 2016 Hopman Cup (268 changes by 25 authors)
  9. 2016 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (261 changes by 16 authors)
  10. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (258 changes by 70 authors)
  11. Florida Gators football (247 changes by 4 authors)
  12. Views From the 6 (244 changes by 32 authors)
  13. 2016 BDO World Darts Championship (231 changes by 15 authors)
  14. Sáhkku (213 changes by 5 authors)
  15. 2016 in South Korean music (199 changes by 13 authors)
  16. 2015–16 NFL playoffs (189 changes by 13 authors)
  17. Beauty and the Bestie (186 changes by 33 authors)
  18. New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Germany (184 changes by 48 authors)
  19. HIAG (183 changes by 3 authors)
  20. Jascha Spivakovsky (183 changes by 2 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. Militia occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge (763 changes by 71 authors)
  2. 2016 North Korean nuclear test (327 changes by 77 authors)
  3. 2016 Pathankot attack (281 changes by 43 authors)
  4. Views From the 6 (244 changes by 32 authors)
  5. New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Germany (184 changes by 48 authors)
  6. Sian Blake (179 changes by 29 authors)
  7. Mark Hobart (147 changes by 7 authors)
  8. Charlie Murray (golfer) (122 changes by 3 authors)
  9. Karen Grech Gardens (111 changes by 3 authors)
  10. 2016 Qatar ExxonMobil Open – Singles (109 changes by 16 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Militia occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
  2. Cities and towns during the Syrian Civil War
  3. Jennifer Lawrence
  4. List of Doctor Who serials
  5. David Bain

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

About

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