Hello there! Welcome to our weekly digest of Wikipedia activity.
Articles
This week, 115,920 authors made 834,506 changes to 376,558 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:
- Sridevi (777 changes by 174 authors)
- 2018 Welsh Open (snooker) (759 changes by 12 authors)
- Deaths in 2018 (609 changes by 103 authors)
- Stoneman Douglas High School shooting (538 changes by 78 authors)
- United States House of Representatives elections in California, 2018 (426 changes by 9 authors)
- The Cloisters (356 changes by 6 authors)
- Chinese theology (353 changes by 5 authors)
- Forests Commission of Victoria (341 changes by 8 authors)
- Kenzō Shirai (332 changes by 1 authors)
- V850 (324 changes by 8 authors)
- List of Chinese football transfers winter 2018 (320 changes by 5 authors)
- Wesley Johnson (basketball) (293 changes by 26 authors)
- 2018 Pakistan Super League (274 changes by 14 authors)
- Sasuke Uchiha (268 changes by 7 authors)
- The Voice (U.S. season 14) (267 changes by 14 authors)
- Elimination Chamber (2018) (250 changes by 48 authors)
- 2018 NRA boycott (246 changes by 38 authors)
- Animal (233 changes by 5 authors)
- Emanuel Moravec (221 changes by 1 authors)
- Black Panther (film) (210 changes by 45 authors)
New Articles
The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week
- 2018 NRA boycott (246 changes by 38 authors)
- Neoclassicism in France (209 changes by 2 authors)
- National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD), Sukkur chapter (131 changes by 6 authors)
- 2018 Papua New Guinea earthquake (127 changes by 20 authors)
- Oei Hui-lan (108 changes by 9 authors)
- Streamlined Ocean Liner (107 changes by 2 authors)
- 2018 Oracle Challenger Series – Indian Wells – Women's Singles (95 changes by 7 authors)
- 2017–18 SLC Twenty20 Tournament (91 changes by 1 authors)
- Long Reef (New South Wales) (88 changes by 2 authors)
- Thomas Forrest Cotton (86 changes by 4 authors)
Discussions
The most active discussions:
- Stoneman Douglas High School shooting
- Racial views of Donald Trump
- Homosexual behavior in animals
- Collaboration with the Axis Powers during World War II
- Sarah Jane Brown
Stats
A few numbers from last week:
- 40,146 registered users and 75,774 unregistered users made 834,506 edits to 376,558 articles
- Unregistered users made 183,102 edits to 88,497 articles
- 42 robots made 54,028 edits to 52,204 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.