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, 116,733 authors made 769,332 changes to 332,081 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. 2018 Gibraltar Open (709 changes by 9 authors)
  2. Deaths in 2018 (592 changes by 97 authors)
  3. Stephen Hawking (449 changes by 180 authors)
  4. 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament (436 changes by 59 authors)
  5. Poisoning of Sergei Skripal (377 changes by 94 authors)
  6. US Bangla Airlines Flight 211 (371 changes by 84 authors)
  7. Natina Reed (367 changes by 5 authors)
  8. List of video game franchises (336 changes by 3 authors)
  9. 2018 BNP Paribas Open – Men's Singles (324 changes by 34 authors)
  10. Ken Dodd (305 changes by 54 authors)
  11. 2018 Pakistan Super League (292 changes by 19 authors)
  12. Novichok agent (279 changes by 59 authors)
  13. Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district special election, 2018 (277 changes by 70 authors)
  14. Mary Stuart Smith (275 changes by 1 authors)
  15. 2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier (268 changes by 13 authors)
  16. An Wasserflüssen Babylon (266 changes by 4 authors)
  17. The Voice (U.S. season 14) (256 changes by 15 authors)
  18. Gina Haspel (256 changes by 67 authors)
  19. 2018 BNP Paribas Open – Women's Singles (254 changes by 27 authors)
  20. List of awards and nominations received by Shah Rukh Khan (251 changes by 6 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. US-Bangla Airlines Flight 211 (371 changes by 84 authors)
  2. Florida International University pedestrian bridge collapse (171 changes by 37 authors)
  3. 2018 PDC Players Championship 4 (162 changes by 5 authors)
  4. DreamDoll (150 changes by 15 authors)
  5. Guido Jung (136 changes by 2 authors)
  6. Fabulous Moolah Memorial Trophy (120 changes by 22 authors)
  7. The Hatton Garden Job (119 changes by 3 authors)
  8. 1968 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships (114 changes by 2 authors)
  9. Ongi kuden (99 changes by 4 authors)
  10. Inter-Korean Peace House (96 changes by 2 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Homosexual behavior in animals
  2. Faith healing
  3. Collaboration with the Axis Powers during World War II
  4. Doug Ford Jr.
  5. Donald Trump

Stats

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About

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