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, 118,286 authors made 750,222 changes to 308,026 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. 2017 Women's March (1,948 changes by 212 authors)
  2. Inauguration of Donald Trump (556 changes by 113 authors)
  3. Deaths in 2017 (396 changes by 86 authors)
  4. 2017 Australian Open (387 changes by 28 authors)
  5. Donald Trump (352 changes by 135 authors)
  6. Sean Spicer (326 changes by 93 authors)
  7. Triple J Hottest 100, 2016 (322 changes by 11 authors)
  8. 2017 World Men's Handball Championship (314 changes by 24 authors)
  9. Super Bowl LI (303 changes by 72 authors)
  10. Alternative facts (303 changes by 85 authors)
  11. Split (2016 American film) (294 changes by 59 authors)
  12. List of locations for the2017 Women's March (280 changes by 37 authors)
  13. 2017 Jallikattu protests (263 changes by 54 authors)
  14. Mary Tyler Moore (263 changes by 74 authors)
  15. 2017 Melbourne car attack (258 changes by 38 authors)
  16. Katie Rich (255 changes by 46 authors)
  17. Harvard–Yale football rivalry (255 changes by 6 authors)
  18. January 21–22, 2017, tornado outbreak (254 changes by 36 authors)
  19. 2017 China Open (snooker) (253 changes by 4 authors)
  20. Protests against Donald Trump (224 changes by 58 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. Alternative facts (303 changes by 85 authors)
  2. List of 2017 Women's March locations (280 changes by 37 authors)
  3. January 21–22, 2017, tornado outbreak (254 changes by 36 authors)
  4. Justice Democrats (143 changes by 24 authors)
  5. 2017 Charlotte 49ers football team (125 changes by 2 authors)
  6. ECW tournaments (103 changes by 5 authors)
  7. The House of Houdini (101 changes by 10 authors)
  8. Delta English School (97 changes by 2 authors)
  9. 2017 Verona bus crash (96 changes by 17 authors)
  10. Jason Deeh Pitre (93 changes by 6 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Donald Trump
  2. Women's March on Washington
  3. Sean Spicer
  4. Intelligent design
  5. Jacob Barnett

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

About

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