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, 112,218 authors made 773,282 changes to 330,187 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. 2017 Istanbul nightclub attack (951 changes by 159 authors)
  2. 2017 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (411 changes by 23 authors)
  3. Deaths in 2017 (281 changes by 66 authors)
  4. 2017 New Year Honours (279 changes by 33 authors)
  5. List of American Horror Story characters (278 changes by 7 authors)
  6. Jakarta (274 changes by 16 authors)
  7. 2017 Championship League (274 changes by 3 authors)
  8. Om Puri (272 changes by 49 authors)
  9. Deaths in 2016 (255 changes by 70 authors)
  10. Garry Marshall (250 changes by 3 authors)
  11. Celebrity Big Brother 19 (244 changes by 25 authors)
  12. 2016 World Masters Athletics Championships (240 changes by 2 authors)
  13. Gilbert Klingel (233 changes by 1 authors)
  14. John Berger (230 changes by 29 authors)
  15. Rogue One (228 changes by 55 authors)
  16. Carrie Fisher (221 changes by 61 authors)
  17. List of terrorist incidents in January 2017 (219 changes by 35 authors)
  18. Stephen Hillenburg (216 changes by 3 authors)
  19. 2016–17 NFL playoffs (211 changes by 29 authors)
  20. Hrithik Roshan (211 changes by 6 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. 2017 Istanbul nightclub attack (951 changes by 159 authors)
  2. 2016 World Masters Athletics Championships (240 changes by 2 authors)
  3. List of terrorist incidents in January 2017 (219 changes by 35 authors)
  4. 2017 Meridian Canadian Open (144 changes by 2 authors)
  5. Harry D. Schultz (120 changes by 5 authors)
  6. 1955 Big Ten Conference Men's Golf Championship (120 changes by 2 authors)
  7. Canadian values (119 changes by 7 authors)
  8. Loev (film) (119 changes by 4 authors)
  9. Zerega's Spanish Troubadours (114 changes by 3 authors)
  10. James Rufus Boose (102 changes by 5 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Donald Trump
  2. 2016 United States election interference by Russia
  3. Stanley Kubrick
  4. Ulysses S. Grant
  5. Carrie Fisher

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

About

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