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, 115,633 authors made 799,739 changes to 362,019 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. 2017 Saint Petersburg Metro attack (771 changes by 144 authors)
  2. Deaths in 2017 (455 changes by 96 authors)
  3. WrestleMania 33 (433 changes by 79 authors)
  4. 2017 World Snooker Championship (384 changes by 7 authors)
  5. 2017 Ford World Men's Curling Championship (353 changes by 11 authors)
  6. Khan Shaykhun chemical attack (322 changes by 87 authors)
  7. Ghost in the Shell (2017 film) (294 changes by 58 authors)
  8. United States missile strike in Syria (277 changes by 54 authors)
  9. 13 Reasons Why (276 changes by 53 authors)
  10. Beauty and the Beast (2017 film) (265 changes by 38 authors)
  11. Matt Hardy (256 changes by 31 authors)
  12. The Stephanie Miller Show (255 changes by 5 authors)
  13. The Voice (U.S. season 12) (244 changes by 12 authors)
  14. List of films condemned by the Legion of Decency (243 changes by 2 authors)
  15. Saudi Arabia (243 changes by 16 authors)
  16. Alexandre Gilbert (239 changes by 4 authors)
  17. Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 24) (225 changes by 15 authors)
  18. 2017 Malaysia Super Series Premier (224 changes by 4 authors)
  19. 2017 Volvo Car Open – Singles (216 changes by 13 authors)
  20. Samuel Fraunces (215 changes by 6 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. 2017 Saint Petersburg Metro bombing (771 changes by 144 authors)
  2. 2017 Khan Shaykhun chemical attack (322 changes by 87 authors)
  3. 2017 Shayrat strike (277 changes by 54 authors)
  4. Alexandre Gilbert (Curator) (239 changes by 4 authors)
  5. List of terrorist incidents in April 2017 (151 changes by 13 authors)
  6. 2017 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group IV (136 changes by 4 authors)
  7. 2017 Monterrey Open – Singles (103 changes by 10 authors)
  8. Alexis d'Anjou-Durazzo (102 changes by 21 authors)
  9. 2017 Putumayo landslide (99 changes by 23 authors)
  10. 2017 Davis Cup Europe Zone Group III (96 changes by 3 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Donald Trump
  2. List of scientists opposing the mainstream scientific assessment of global warming
  3. Microscope
  4. Liancourt Rocks
  5. Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

About

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