Hello there! Welcome to our weekly digest of Wikipedia activity.
Articles
This week, 110,850 authors made 764,084 changes to 342,598 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:
- 2017 Manchester Arena bombing (853 changes by 191 authors)
- Slavic Native Faith (522 changes by 5 authors)
- Murder of Seth Rich (472 changes by 52 authors)
- Reactions to the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing (460 changes by 98 authors)
- The Voice (U.S. season 12) (433 changes by 29 authors)
- Greg Gianforte (424 changes by 106 authors)
- Stardust the Super Wizard (389 changes by 4 authors)
- Iranian presidential election, 2017 (383 changes by 40 authors)
- Deaths in 2017 (377 changes by 80 authors)
- Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 24) (318 changes by 32 authors)
- Selena Gomez (309 changes by 11 authors)
- Roger Moore (299 changes by 108 authors)
- Kartamyshevskaya street (282 changes by 4 authors)
- The Holocaust (282 changes by 12 authors)
- Arsinspor (282 changes by 1 authors)
- List of Christian schools in India (254 changes by 1 authors)
- Jinder Mahal (240 changes by 48 authors)
- WannaCry ransomware attack (237 changes by 78 authors)
- RuPaul's Drag Race (season 9) (235 changes by 30 authors)
- Pauline Parmentier (234 changes by 2 authors)
New Articles
The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week
- Reactions to the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing (460 changes by 98 authors)
- Timeline of events related to Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election (207 changes by 9 authors)
- 2017 French Open – Men's Singles Qualifying (207 changes by 10 authors)
- 2017 Marawi clash (201 changes by 45 authors)
- William R. Rowley (183 changes by 2 authors)
- 2017 French Open – Women's Singles Qualifying (167 changes by 11 authors)
- Chris Blue (146 changes by 8 authors)
- 1974 in Michigan (144 changes by 4 authors)
- List of Saturday Night Live Hosts (135 changes by 6 authors)
- List of hams (131 changes by 2 authors)
Discussions
The most active discussions:
- Murder of Seth Rich
- 2017 Manchester Arena bombing
- Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
- WannaCry ransomware attack
- Emmett Till
Stats
A few numbers from last week:
- 37,650 registered users and 73,200 unregistered users made 764,084 edits to 342,598 articles
- Unregistered users made 180,632 edits to 83,862 articles
- 38 robots made 105,946 edits to 98,188 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.