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, 112,035 authors made 753,565 changes to 336,595 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. FlyDubai Flight 981 (1,099 changes by 83 authors)
  2. 2016 Brussels bombings (811 changes by 185 authors)
  3. Deaths in 1996 (596 changes by 3 authors)
  4. Deaths in 2016 (528 changes by 93 authors)
  5. History of South America (477 changes by 6 authors)
  6. List of Donald Trump presidential campaign endorsements, 2016 (471 changes by 27 authors)
  7. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (406 changes by 107 authors)
  8. 2016 Miami Open – Women's Singles (358 changes by 16 authors)
  9. Reactions to the 2016 Brussels bombings (333 changes by 81 authors)
  10. Salah Abdeslam (293 changes by 54 authors)
  11. Austin, Minnesota (284 changes by 5 authors)
  12. WrestleMania 32 (273 changes by 44 authors)
  13. Stephen Crabb (262 changes by 41 authors)
  14. 2016 Miami Open – Men's Singles (260 changes by 19 authors)
  15. Nuclear power in Taiwan (260 changes by 6 authors)
  16. March 2016 Istanbul bombing (259 changes by 52 authors)
  17. Rob Ford (259 changes by 74 authors)
  18. Asia's Next Top Model (cycle 4) (257 changes by 19 authors)
  19. Lonnie Mack (245 changes by 4 authors)
  20. Otford (227 changes by 10 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. Flydubai Flight 981 (1,099 changes by 83 authors)
  2. 2016 Miami Open – Women's Singles (358 changes by 16 authors)
  3. Reactions to the 2016 Brussels bombings (333 changes by 81 authors)
  4. 2016 Miami Open – Men's Singles (260 changes by 19 authors)
  5. March 2016 Istanbul bombing (259 changes by 52 authors)
  6. List of reptiles of China (226 changes by 3 authors)
  7. UN Youth Ghana (186 changes by 9 authors)
  8. Atlas preparatory school (162 changes by 7 authors)
  9. Military Peace Establishment Act (145 changes by 5 authors)
  10. Twelfth Street Meeting House (132 changes by 1 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. 2016 Brussels bombings
  2. List of state leaders in 2016
  3. Donald Trump
  4. Ford Pinto
  5. Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2016

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

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