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, 123,445 authors made 784,806 changes to 327,041 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Deaths in 2016 (452 changes by 108 authors)
  2. Terry Wogan (419 changes by 88 authors)
  3. Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification (358 changes by 6 authors)
  4. Grease: Live (314 changes by 52 authors)
  5. Planet Nine (272 changes by 26 authors)
  6. Angelique Kerber (271 changes by 56 authors)
  7. Zika virus outbreak in the Americas (2015–present) (268 changes by 82 authors)
  8. ExxonMobil climate change controversy (268 changes by 10 authors)
  9. Xolotl (263 changes by 5 authors)
  10. Pillowtalk (song) (262 changes by 36 authors)
  11. Kung Fu Panda 3 (260 changes by 31 authors)
  12. 2016 Under-19 Cricket World Cup (258 changes by 26 authors)
  13. List of natural horror films (249 changes by 2 authors)
  14. United States presidential election in Iowa, 2016 (241 changes by 56 authors)
  15. Anti (album) (216 changes by 46 authors)
  16. Republican Party presidential primaries, 2016 (214 changes by 46 authors)
  17. Occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge (214 changes by 32 authors)
  18. Achinoam Nini (205 changes by 6 authors)
  19. Forcade (203 changes by 3 authors)
  20. Bernie Sanders (198 changes by 58 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. React (media franchise) (134 changes by 16 authors)
  2. 2016 Garanti Koza Sofia Open – Singles (113 changes by 17 authors)
  3. 2016 Ecuador Open Quito – Singles (111 changes by 15 authors)
  4. Most successful multi-sport clubs (104 changes by 4 authors)
  5. Producing Great Sound for Film and Video (103 changes by 3 authors)
  6. Destruction of ivory (102 changes by 2 authors)
  7. 2016 Open Sud de France – Singles (99 changes by 14 authors)
  8. Daallo Airlines Flight 3159 (95 changes by 26 authors)
  9. El Adde attack (94 changes by 4 authors)
  10. List of international cricket five-wicket hauls in Indian Grounds (93 changes by 6 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Bernie Sanders
  2. Planet Nine
  3. Veganism
  4. Muhammad
  5. List of state leaders in 2015

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

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