Hello there! Welcome to our weekly digest of Wikipedia activity.
Articles
This week, 101,843 authors made 746,924 changes to 339,998 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:
- 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt (1,731 changes by 350 authors)
- 2016 Nice attack (1,689 changes by 237 authors)
- Catholic University of Brasília (659 changes by 9 authors)
- Pokémon Go (459 changes by 118 authors)
- Mike Pence (405 changes by 80 authors)
- 2016 Republican National Convention (386 changes by 69 authors)
- Big Brother 18 (U.S.) (376 changes by 57 authors)
- Deaths in 2016 (374 changes by 70 authors)
- Qandeel Baloch (358 changes by 84 authors)
- 2016 WWE Draft (342 changes by 51 authors)
- British Government frontbench (333 changes by 10 authors)
- Events at the O2 Arena (331 changes by 3 authors)
- Metropolitan Stores (327 changes by 2 authors)
- Garry Marshall (317 changes by 36 authors)
- 2016 Würzburg train attack (284 changes by 37 authors)
- Ghostbusters (2016 film) (263 changes by 72 authors)
- Statewide opinion polling for the United States presidential election, 2016 (258 changes by 11 authors)
- 2016 Pacific hurricane season (257 changes by 23 authors)
- Beverly Gray (255 changes by 3 authors)
- May ministry (243 changes by 24 authors)
New Articles
The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week
- 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt (1,731 changes by 350 authors)
- 2016 Würzburg train attack (284 changes by 37 authors)
- 2016 NACAC Under-23 Championships in Athletics (151 changes by 5 authors)
- Meredith McIver (147 changes by 22 authors)
- List of Ukrainian football transfers summer 2016 (122 changes by 1 authors)
- List of British Empire corps of the Second World War (119 changes by 7 authors)
- Dean Cullom Smith (119 changes by 4 authors)
- Turkish Peace Council (117 changes by 35 authors)
- Ma's Illustrated Catalogue Of The Stamps Of China (109 changes by 8 authors)
- 2014–2016 Turkish judicial purges (109 changes by 30 authors)
Discussions
The most active discussions:
- 2016 Nice attack
- 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt
- New York/July 2016 move request
- Pokémon Go
- Creation Museum
Stats
A few numbers from last week:
- 34,101 registered users and 67,742 unregistered users made 746,924 edits to 339,998 articles
- Unregistered users made 178,630 edits to 81,777 articles
- 37 robots made 80,508 edits to 76,732 articles
About
This project retrieves a list of the week's recent changes using Wikimedia Tool Labs, and delivers emails using MailChimp. Code and more information available on GitHub. Built by Stephen LaPorte and Mahmoud Hashemi.