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, 111,564 authors made 776,765 changes to 359,782 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. 2017 Scottish Open (snooker) (884 changes by 15 authors)
  2. Deaths in 2017 (465 changes by 93 authors)
  3. Timeline of the Ming dynasty (393 changes by 7 authors)
  4. The Voice (U.S. season 13) (371 changes by 26 authors)
  5. Star Wars: The Last Jedi (314 changes by 70 authors)
  6. 2017 World Women's Handball Championship (314 changes by 17 authors)
  7. Keith Chegwin (307 changes by 54 authors)
  8. United States Senate special election in Alabama, 2017 (297 changes by 103 authors)
  9. Ed Lee (politician) (286 changes by 59 authors)
  10. 2017 New York Port Authority Bus Terminal explosion (267 changes by 61 authors)
  11. Thomas Fire (263 changes by 36 authors)
  12. 2017 BWF Super Series Finals (254 changes by 10 authors)
  13. United States Recognition of Jerusalem (252 changes by 35 authors)
  14. List of 1960s musical artists (244 changes by 4 authors)
  15. Perfect (Ed Sheeran song) (229 changes by 25 authors)
  16. Revival (Eminem album) (224 changes by 45 authors)
  17. Donald Trump (212 changes by 19 authors)
  18. Arthur Sullivan (209 changes by 4 authors)
  19. 2017–18 Pac-12 Conference men's basketball season (202 changes by 8 authors)
  20. List of video games with LGBT characters (200 changes by 7 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. 2017 New York City attempted bombing (267 changes by 61 authors)
  2. United States recognition of Jerusalem (252 changes by 35 authors)
  3. Dan Johnson (Kentucky politician) (141 changes by 33 authors)
  4. List of accolades received by Call Me by Your Name (film) (130 changes by 9 authors)
  5. Cancao (130 changes by 2 authors)
  6. Gustavus Murray (127 changes by 3 authors)
  7. 2017 International U-21 Thanh Niên Newspaper Cup (92 changes by 4 authors)
  8. Anant Ramachandra Gokhale (91 changes by 8 authors)
  9. Sigismondo Boldoni (80 changes by 2 authors)
  10. Thomas Buzzard (77 changes by 5 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Donald Trump
  2. Matt Lauer
  3. List of sovereign states
  4. United States recognition of Jerusalem as Israeli capital
  5. Death of Daniel Shaver

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

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