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, 106,149 authors made 757,409 changes to 337,219 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. 2017 Iranian protests (872 changes by 121 authors)
  2. Royal Rumble (2018) (405 changes by 46 authors)
  3. William Shakespeare (392 changes by 4 authors)
  4. Deaths in 2018 (382 changes by 69 authors)
  5. High School of Montreal (322 changes by 3 authors)
  6. 2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (305 changes by 29 authors)
  7. 2018 Hopman Cup (301 changes by 24 authors)
  8. John Heisman (296 changes by 4 authors)
  9. Carole Ward Allen (284 changes by 7 authors)
  10. History of the metric system (270 changes by 7 authors)
  11. Anne Hathaway (270 changes by 7 authors)
  12. Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision (255 changes by 2 authors)
  13. Meltdown (security bug) (247 changes by 55 authors)
  14. Yeomanry (245 changes by 2 authors)
  15. List of shipwrecks in 1842 (221 changes by 6 authors)
  16. Eros and Civilization (220 changes by 1 authors)
  17. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (215 changes by 37 authors)
  18. 2018 PDC World Darts Championship (211 changes by 40 authors)
  19. Neferirkare Kakai (205 changes by 3 authors)
  20. Index of Sri Lanka-related articles (205 changes by 3 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. Meltdown (security bug) (247 changes by 55 authors)
  2. Erica Garner (179 changes by 50 authors)
  3. Angel Recording Studios (155 changes by 11 authors)
  4. Coronation of the Emperor of Brazil (153 changes by 5 authors)
  5. Spectre (security bug) (137 changes by 39 authors)
  6. Death of Paulette (137 changes by 5 authors)
  7. 2018 Qatar ExxonMobil Open – Singles (135 changes by 20 authors)
  8. Pacific Architects and Engineers (130 changes by 2 authors)
  9. Amba Etta-Tawo (129 changes by 5 authors)
  10. Early January 2018 nor'easter (125 changes by 28 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. 2017 Iranian protests
  2. Donald Trump–Russia dossier
  3. Israel
  4. Donald Trump
  5. Erica Garner

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

About

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