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, 118,561 authors made 824,579 changes to 380,595 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. LaMia Airlines Flight 2933 (896 changes by 181 authors)
  2. Death and state funeral of Fidel Castro (784 changes by 92 authors)
  3. Ohio State University attack (551 changes by 60 authors)
  4. 2016 UK Championship (529 changes by 12 authors)
  5. Deaths in 2016 (388 changes by 88 authors)
  6. Fake news website (375 changes by 29 authors)
  7. Isle of Wight (361 changes by 11 authors)
  8. Associação Chapecoense de Futebol (354 changes by 93 authors)
  9. Dear Zindagi (330 changes by 31 authors)
  10. Donald Trump (324 changes by 100 authors)
  11. Cabinet of Donald Trump (304 changes by 50 authors)
  12. World Chess Championship 2016 (300 changes by 45 authors)
  13. List of federal agencies in the United States (287 changes by 1 authors)
  14. Lighters (song) (286 changes by 3 authors)
  15. List of mythological objects (Hindu Mythology) (268 changes by 3 authors)
  16. Fidel Castro (268 changes by 101 authors)
  17. List of films considered the best (266 changes by 14 authors)
  18. Modern architecture (265 changes by 10 authors)
  19. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film) (259 changes by 51 authors)
  20. 2016 United States presidential election recount and audit (252 changes by 45 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. LaMia Airlines Flight 2933 (896 changes by 181 authors)
  2. Death and state funeral of Fidel Castro (784 changes by 92 authors)
  3. 2016 Ohio State University attack (551 changes by 60 authors)
  4. 2016 United States presidential election recount and audit (252 changes by 45 authors)
  5. Ben Woodburn (177 changes by 27 authors)
  6. Ralph Waldo Trine (143 changes by 5 authors)
  7. Islam in ancient Bangladesh (131 changes by 5 authors)
  8. Venkat (Telugu actor) (117 changes by 7 authors)
  9. Chigali (115 changes by 7 authors)
  10. Harold Hartley (businessman) (112 changes by 2 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Fidel Castro
  2. Donald Trump
  3. 2016 Ohio State University attack
  4. United States presidential election, 2016
  5. Ulysses S. Grant

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

About

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