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, 103,222 authors made 695,391 changes to 302,975 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Deaths in 2017 (525 changes by 92 authors)
  2. Star Wars: The Last Jedi (504 changes by 138 authors)
  3. 2018 German Masters (437 changes by 4 authors)
  4. The Voice (U.S. season 13) (410 changes by 30 authors)
  5. 2017 Washington train derailment (409 changes by 95 authors)
  6. 2018 PDC World Darts Championship (393 changes by 15 authors)
  7. Royal Rumble (2018) (360 changes by 40 authors)
  8. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (301 changes by 34 authors)
  9. I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me) (274 changes by 3 authors)
  10. Clash of Champions (2017) (261 changes by 35 authors)
  11. List of notable surviving veterans of World War II (252 changes by 6 authors)
  12. 2017 Pacific typhoon season (237 changes by 24 authors)
  13. Hefei (233 changes by 5 authors)
  14. Proposed acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney (233 changes by 37 authors)
  15. Catalan regional election, 2017 (230 changes by 26 authors)
  16. Gujarat Legislative Assembly election, 2017 (214 changes by 30 authors)
  17. Peter Strzok (211 changes by 16 authors)
  18. Defiant Wrestling (200 changes by 21 authors)
  19. International System of Units (191 changes by 12 authors)
  20. Kim Jong-hyun (singer) (189 changes by 62 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. 2017 Washington train derailment (409 changes by 95 authors)
  2. The Sacred Riana (155 changes by 6 authors)
  3. Mark Nykanen (117 changes by 2 authors)
  4. Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program (110 changes by 19 authors)
  5. Power to the People (Italy) (106 changes by 8 authors)
  6. United Nations General Assembly resolution ES-10/L.22 (82 changes by 10 authors)
  7. Albert Burrage (77 changes by 6 authors)
  8. Transogram (76 changes by 3 authors)
  9. James Hood Wright (76 changes by 2 authors)
  10. Validation in the Clinical Theory of Psychoanalysis (73 changes by 1 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. 2017 Washington train derailment
  2. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
  3. Intelligent design
  4. United States recognition of Jerusalem as Israeli capital
  5. Cary Grant

Stats

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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.

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