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:
- 2017 Scottish Open (snooker) (884 changes by 15 authors)
- Deaths in 2017 (465 changes by 93 authors)
- Timeline of the Ming dynasty (393 changes by 7 authors)
- The Voice (U.S. season 13) (371 changes by 26 authors)
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi (314 changes by 70 authors)
- 2017 World Women's Handball Championship (314 changes by 17 authors)
- Keith Chegwin (307 changes by 54 authors)
- United States Senate special election in Alabama, 2017 (297 changes by 103 authors)
- Ed Lee (politician) (286 changes by 59 authors)
- 2017 New York Port Authority Bus Terminal explosion (267 changes by 61 authors)
- Thomas Fire (263 changes by 36 authors)
- 2017 BWF Super Series Finals (254 changes by 10 authors)
- United States Recognition of Jerusalem (252 changes by 35 authors)
- List of 1960s musical artists (244 changes by 4 authors)
- Perfect (Ed Sheeran song) (229 changes by 25 authors)
- Revival (Eminem album) (224 changes by 45 authors)
- Donald Trump (212 changes by 19 authors)
- Arthur Sullivan (209 changes by 4 authors)
- 2017–18 Pac-12 Conference men's basketball season (202 changes by 8 authors)
- 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
- 2017 New York City attempted bombing (267 changes by 61 authors)
- United States recognition of Jerusalem (252 changes by 35 authors)
- Dan Johnson (Kentucky politician) (141 changes by 33 authors)
- List of accolades received by Call Me by Your Name (film) (130 changes by 9 authors)
- Cancao (130 changes by 2 authors)
- Gustavus Murray (127 changes by 3 authors)
- 2017 International U-21 Thanh Niên Newspaper Cup (92 changes by 4 authors)
- Anant Ramachandra Gokhale (91 changes by 8 authors)
- Sigismondo Boldoni (80 changes by 2 authors)
- Thomas Buzzard (77 changes by 5 authors)
Discussions
The most active discussions:
- Donald Trump
- Matt Lauer
- List of sovereign states
- United States recognition of Jerusalem as Israeli capital
- Death of Daniel Shaver
Stats
A few numbers from last week:
- 38,269 registered users and 73,295 unregistered users made 776,765 edits to 359,782 articles
- Unregistered users made 177,999 edits to 84,974 articles
- 42 robots made 117,940 edits to 115,183 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.