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, 115,561 authors made 783,866 changes to 356,386 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Roy Moore (468 changes by 97 authors)
  2. Deaths in 2017 (387 changes by 92 authors)
  3. Lil Peep (381 changes by 75 authors)
  4. 2017 Halabja earthquake (373 changes by 83 authors)
  5. Justice League (film) (328 changes by 76 authors)
  6. 2017 Shanghai Masters (327 changes by 9 authors)
  7. 2017 Grand Slam of Darts (312 changes by 13 authors)
  8. List of countries by Nobel laureates per capita (310 changes by 9 authors)
  9. The Voice (U.S. season 13) (291 changes by 22 authors)
  10. Miss International 2017 (273 changes by 21 authors)
  11. United States Senate special election in Alabama, 2017 (258 changes by 61 authors)
  12. 2017 MTV Europe Music Awards (257 changes by 33 authors)
  13. 2017 Australian parliamentary eligibility crisis (253 changes by 25 authors)
  14. Outline of Greece (246 changes by 1 authors)
  15. Pat Metheny discography (240 changes by 4 authors)
  16. Slave labor on United States military installations (240 changes by 2 authors)
  17. Reputation (Taylor Swift album) (238 changes by 58 authors)
  18. List of adventure films of the 1950s (211 changes by 3 authors)
  19. Thor: Ragnarok (204 changes by 49 authors)
  20. Koo Stark (204 changes by 3 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. 2017 Iran–Iraq earthquake (373 changes by 83 authors)
  2. Rancho Tehama Reserve shootings (117 changes by 20 authors)
  3. 2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état attempt (115 changes by 42 authors)
  4. Pardon of Joe Arpaio (110 changes by 17 authors)
  5. Roy Moore sexual abuse allegations (109 changes by 18 authors)
  6. Danford Thomas (108 changes by 3 authors)
  7. Glossary of representation theory (100 changes by 3 authors)
  8. 2017 OEC Taipei WTA Challenger – Singles (97 changes by 10 authors)
  9. Reputation Stadium Tour (92 changes by 17 authors)
  10. The Game Awards 2017 (88 changes by 7 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Roy Moore
  2. Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
  3. Benito Mussolini
  4. Donald Trump–Russia dossier
  5. Me Too (hashtag)

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

About

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