Hello there! Welcome to our weekly digest of Wikipedia activity.
Articles
This week, 114,490 authors made 862,308 changes to 399,848 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:
- Russian influence on the 2016 United States presidential election (719 changes by 54 authors)
- 2016 Scottish Open (snooker) (577 changes by 10 authors)
- List of ships built by Fincantieri (563 changes by 4 authors)
- Aleppo offensive (November–December 2016) (456 changes by 57 authors)
- Rex Tillerson (435 changes by 108 authors)
- Bigg Boss 10 (404 changes by 25 authors)
- Deaths in 2016 (363 changes by 80 authors)
- Charlie Zeleny (294 changes by 8 authors)
- Fake news website (291 changes by 26 authors)
- Battle of Aleppo (2012–16) (279 changes by 60 authors)
- Palmyra (260 changes by 12 authors)
- List of awards and nominations received by Netflix (259 changes by 3 authors)
- Lars Kruse (253 changes by 12 authors)
- Craig Sager (252 changes by 41 authors)
- 2016 European Women's Handball Championship (250 changes by 22 authors)
- Manchán of Mohill (248 changes by 3 authors)
- 2016 South Africa Sevens (245 changes by 9 authors)
- 4 Your Eyez Only (245 changes by 24 authors)
- John Glenn (238 changes by 46 authors)
- Alan Thicke (236 changes by 57 authors)
New Articles
The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week
- Russian influence on the 2016 United States presidential election (719 changes by 54 authors)
- Botroseya Church bombing (235 changes by 64 authors)
- Corruption in Ecuador (151 changes by 1 authors)
- Vele-Kamthi,Satara (126 changes by 3 authors)
- Cyclone Vardah (118 changes by 19 authors)
- Oxytocin (medication) (117 changes by 8 authors)
- Compass Rose Legal Group (98 changes by 5 authors)
- Daniel Nicols (97 changes by 2 authors)
- Aleppo Massacre (December 2016) (93 changes by 26 authors)
- Milford Lane (92 changes by 1 authors)
Discussions
The most active discussions:
- Pizzagate (conspiracy theory)
- Russian involvement in the 2016 United States presidential election
- Donald Trump
- Fake news website
- United States presidential election, 2016
Stats
A few numbers from last week:
- 37,291 registered users and 77,199 unregistered users made 862,308 edits to 399,848 articles
- Unregistered users made 194,150 edits to 89,043 articles
- 42 robots made 150,635 edits to 139,992 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.