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, 119,058 authors made 803,917 changes to 340,971 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. 2017 Fort Lauderdale airport shooting (651 changes by 90 authors)
  2. Royal Rumble (2017) (500 changes by 54 authors)
  3. Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (412 changes by 56 authors)
  4. Stratego (359 changes by 6 authors)
  5. 2017 Jerusalem attack (339 changes by 39 authors)
  6. 2017 College Football Playoff National Championship (276 changes by 36 authors)
  7. Pinoy Big Brother: Lucky 7 (272 changes by 16 authors)
  8. Jacqueline Susann (272 changes by 6 authors)
  9. Deaths in 2017 (262 changes by 62 authors)
  10. Peter Sarstedt (258 changes by 32 authors)
  11. 2017 Championship League (258 changes by 7 authors)
  12. Universally unique identifier (250 changes by 3 authors)
  13. 2016–17 NFL playoffs (249 changes by 32 authors)
  14. 2017 BDO World Darts Championship (246 changes by 20 authors)
  15. Kingdom Hearts III (242 changes by 36 authors)
  16. 2017 Australian Open – Men's Singles Qualifying (236 changes by 15 authors)
  17. January 2017 European cold wave (222 changes by 64 authors)
  18. Natalia Ghilascu (219 changes by 16 authors)
  19. Celebrity Big Brother 19 (216 changes by 25 authors)
  20. Donald Trump (214 changes by 80 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. January 2017 Jerusalem vehicular attack (339 changes by 39 authors)
  2. January 2017 European cold wave (222 changes by 64 authors)
  3. Natalia Ghilascu (219 changes by 16 authors)
  4. Kyabje Rinpoche (174 changes by 12 authors)
  5. New Physical Principles Weapons (157 changes by 6 authors)
  6. Nick Roth (composer) (134 changes by 7 authors)
  7. Mayuka Thaïs (133 changes by 11 authors)
  8. 1956 Big Ten Conference football season (122 changes by 3 authors)
  9. Pioneer Cabin Tree (120 changes by 26 authors)
  10. University rankings in China (115 changes by 3 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Donald Trump
  2. 2016 United States election interference by Russia
  3. Macedonia (ancient kingdom)
  4. Anatole Klyosov
  5. Ulysses S. Grant

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

About

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