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, 111,939 authors made 865,392 changes to 417,335 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. 2016 English Open (snooker) (623 changes by 6 authors)
  2. Hurricane Matthew (589 changes by 139 authors)
  3. 2016 Atlantic hurricane season (509 changes by 54 authors)
  4. Donald Trump Access Hollywood controversy (502 changes by 85 authors)
  5. List of Republicans opposing Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016 (499 changes by 30 authors)
  6. 2016 National League Division Series (447 changes by 25 authors)
  7. Newspaper endorsements in the United States presidential election, 2016 (437 changes by 37 authors)
  8. Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations (374 changes by 35 authors)
  9. Donald Trump (372 changes by 83 authors)
  10. Billy Bush (352 changes by 92 authors)
  11. List of coupled cousins (351 changes by 2 authors)
  12. 2016 clown sightings (341 changes by 68 authors)
  13. List of Hillary Clinton presidential campaign endorsements, 2016 (317 changes by 24 authors)
  14. Manchán of Mohill (316 changes by 3 authors)
  15. Deaths in 2016 (310 changes by 72 authors)
  16. Timeline of the Irish War of Independence (266 changes by 7 authors)
  17. Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location (258 changes by 30 authors)
  18. Statewide opinion polling for the United States presidential election, 2016 (253 changes by 23 authors)
  19. The X Factor (UK series 13) (250 changes by 32 authors)
  20. 2016 Pacific typhoon season (241 changes by 16 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. Donald Trump Access Hollywood controversy (502 changes by 85 authors)
  2. Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations (374 changes by 35 authors)
  3. J Barry Grenga (200 changes by 5 authors)
  4. Pandalam dynasty (170 changes by 9 authors)
  5. List of The X Factor finalists (UK series 13) (148 changes by 21 authors)
  6. Coastal islands of Perth, Western Australia (133 changes by 7 authors)
  7. Loss of MV Darlwyne (124 changes by 3 authors)
  8. Kate Marie Davies (111 changes by 9 authors)
  9. Kenneth Bone (101 changes by 37 authors)
  10. Nightclub act (96 changes by 5 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Donald Trump
  2. Donald Trump Access Hollywood controversy
  3. Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
  4. Shooting of James Boyd
  5. United States presidential election, 2016

Stats

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