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, 101,843 authors made 746,924 changes to 339,998 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt (1,731 changes by 350 authors)
  2. 2016 Nice attack (1,689 changes by 237 authors)
  3. Catholic University of Brasília (659 changes by 9 authors)
  4. Pokémon Go (459 changes by 118 authors)
  5. Mike Pence (405 changes by 80 authors)
  6. 2016 Republican National Convention (386 changes by 69 authors)
  7. Big Brother 18 (U.S.) (376 changes by 57 authors)
  8. Deaths in 2016 (374 changes by 70 authors)
  9. Qandeel Baloch (358 changes by 84 authors)
  10. 2016 WWE Draft (342 changes by 51 authors)
  11. British Government frontbench (333 changes by 10 authors)
  12. Events at the O2 Arena (331 changes by 3 authors)
  13. Metropolitan Stores (327 changes by 2 authors)
  14. Garry Marshall (317 changes by 36 authors)
  15. 2016 Würzburg train attack (284 changes by 37 authors)
  16. Ghostbusters (2016 film) (263 changes by 72 authors)
  17. Statewide opinion polling for the United States presidential election, 2016 (258 changes by 11 authors)
  18. 2016 Pacific hurricane season (257 changes by 23 authors)
  19. Beverly Gray (255 changes by 3 authors)
  20. May ministry (243 changes by 24 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt (1,731 changes by 350 authors)
  2. 2016 Würzburg train attack (284 changes by 37 authors)
  3. 2016 NACAC Under-23 Championships in Athletics (151 changes by 5 authors)
  4. Meredith McIver (147 changes by 22 authors)
  5. List of Ukrainian football transfers summer 2016 (122 changes by 1 authors)
  6. List of British Empire corps of the Second World War (119 changes by 7 authors)
  7. Dean Cullom Smith (119 changes by 4 authors)
  8. Turkish Peace Council (117 changes by 35 authors)
  9. Ma's Illustrated Catalogue Of The Stamps Of China (109 changes by 8 authors)
  10. 2014–2016 Turkish judicial purges (109 changes by 30 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. 2016 Nice attack
  2. 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt
  3. New York/July 2016 move request
  4. Pokémon Go
  5. Creation Museum

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

About

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