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, 120,375 authors made 766,676 changes to 315,941 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. David Bowie (768 changes by 252 authors)
  2. Florida Gators football (487 changes by 6 authors)
  3. Jascha Spivakovsky (477 changes by 3 authors)
  4. Deaths in 2016 (465 changes by 101 authors)
  5. Henry Jasper Redfern (459 changes by 4 authors)
  6. International versions of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (432 changes by 3 authors)
  7. Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán (334 changes by 88 authors)
  8. List of Malaysian football transfers 2016 (317 changes by 5 authors)
  9. 88th Academy Awards (304 changes by 46 authors)
  10. Alan Rickman (294 changes by 100 authors)
  11. The Revenant (2015 film) (279 changes by 57 authors)
  12. Militia occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge (274 changes by 44 authors)
  13. List of Old Rugbeians (273 changes by 2 authors)
  14. 2015–16 NFL playoffs (271 changes by 22 authors)
  15. Jeanette Aw (253 changes by 2 authors)
  16. 2016 Jakarta attacks (249 changes by 61 authors)
  17. Florence Annie Conybeare (216 changes by 5 authors)
  18. 2016 in sports (216 changes by 13 authors)
  19. 2016 Australian Open – Men's Singles Qualifying (214 changes by 12 authors)
  20. Making a Murderer (209 changes by 27 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. Henry Jasper Redfern (459 changes by 4 authors)
  2. 2016 Jakarta attacks (249 changes by 61 authors)
  3. 2016 Istanbul bombing (185 changes by 69 authors)
  4. Hwang Chi Yeul (176 changes by 8 authors)
  5. Taharrush gamea (157 changes by 30 authors)
  6. 2016 Apia International Sydney – Men's Singles (140 changes by 16 authors)
  7. James Paul Wesley (137 changes by 13 authors)
  8. 2016 ASB Classic – Men's Singles (135 changes by 12 authors)
  9. Edmond Azemi (114 changes by 7 authors)
  10. Carajicomedia (112 changes by 3 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. David Bowie
  2. David Bain
  3. Rick Alan Ross
  4. Veganism
  5. Occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

About

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