Hello there! Welcome to our weekly digest of Wikipedia activity.
Articles
This week, 115,633 authors made 799,739 changes to 362,019 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:
- 2017 Saint Petersburg Metro attack (771 changes by 144 authors)
- Deaths in 2017 (455 changes by 96 authors)
- WrestleMania 33 (433 changes by 79 authors)
- 2017 World Snooker Championship (384 changes by 7 authors)
- 2017 Ford World Men's Curling Championship (353 changes by 11 authors)
- Khan Shaykhun chemical attack (322 changes by 87 authors)
- Ghost in the Shell (2017 film) (294 changes by 58 authors)
- United States missile strike in Syria (277 changes by 54 authors)
- 13 Reasons Why (276 changes by 53 authors)
- Beauty and the Beast (2017 film) (265 changes by 38 authors)
- Matt Hardy (256 changes by 31 authors)
- The Stephanie Miller Show (255 changes by 5 authors)
- The Voice (U.S. season 12) (244 changes by 12 authors)
- List of films condemned by the Legion of Decency (243 changes by 2 authors)
- Saudi Arabia (243 changes by 16 authors)
- Alexandre Gilbert (239 changes by 4 authors)
- Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 24) (225 changes by 15 authors)
- 2017 Malaysia Super Series Premier (224 changes by 4 authors)
- 2017 Volvo Car Open – Singles (216 changes by 13 authors)
- Samuel Fraunces (215 changes by 6 authors)
New Articles
The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week
- 2017 Saint Petersburg Metro bombing (771 changes by 144 authors)
- 2017 Khan Shaykhun chemical attack (322 changes by 87 authors)
- 2017 Shayrat strike (277 changes by 54 authors)
- Alexandre Gilbert (Curator) (239 changes by 4 authors)
- List of terrorist incidents in April 2017 (151 changes by 13 authors)
- 2017 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group IV (136 changes by 4 authors)
- 2017 Monterrey Open – Singles (103 changes by 10 authors)
- Alexis d'Anjou-Durazzo (102 changes by 21 authors)
- 2017 Putumayo landslide (99 changes by 23 authors)
- 2017 Davis Cup Europe Zone Group III (96 changes by 3 authors)
Discussions
The most active discussions:
- Donald Trump
- List of scientists opposing the mainstream scientific assessment of global warming
- Microscope
- Liancourt Rocks
- Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
Stats
A few numbers from last week:
- 39,763 registered users and 75,870 unregistered users made 799,739 edits to 362,019 articles
- Unregistered users made 188,186 edits to 88,089 articles
- 38 robots made 92,389 edits to 86,445 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.