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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, 99,219 authors made 734,897 changes to 349,297 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. 2018 Asian Boys' U18 Volleyball Championship (588 changes by 8 authors)
  2. 2018 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles (549 changes by 40 authors)
  3. Deaths in 2018 (461 changes by 82 authors)
  4. 2018 Thailand cave flooding (438 changes by 105 authors)
  5. Mexican general election, 2018 (438 changes by 65 authors)
  6. 2018 Wimbledon Championships (390 changes by 32 authors)
  7. Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (362 changes by 51 authors)
  8. Ireland as a tax haven (355 changes by 3 authors)
  9. Puss in Boots (Shrek) (335 changes by 3 authors)
  10. 2018 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles (329 changes by 25 authors)
  11. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (323 changes by 69 authors)
  12. Sanju (315 changes by 40 authors)
  13. Scorpion (Drake album) (307 changes by 72 authors)
  14. Qualifying investor alternative investment fund (QIAIF) (272 changes by 2 authors)
  15. 2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage (262 changes by 59 authors)
  16. Reportedly haunted locations in Scotland (238 changes by 2 authors)
  17. 2018 Indonesia Open (badminton) (231 changes by 7 authors)
  18. Daraa offensive (June 2018) (229 changes by 24 authors)
  19. Windrush scandal (225 changes by 8 authors)
  20. 2018 Pacific typhoon season (222 changes by 24 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. Tham Luang cave rescue (438 changes by 105 authors)
  2. Qualifying investor alternative investment fund (QIAIF) (272 changes by 2 authors)
  3. List of Elliott School of International Affairs people (160 changes by 6 authors)
  4. List of Billboard Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop number-one songs of the 2010s (136 changes by 2 authors)
  5. List of Billboard Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop number-one songs of the 2000s (135 changes by 4 authors)
  6. Knight of the Golden Spur (Hungary) (117 changes by 6 authors)
  7. Subzi Mandi Cash & Carry (112 changes by 5 authors)
  8. Leonard Guthrie (90 changes by 3 authors)
  9. Rudolf V. Perina (88 changes by 9 authors)
  10. Richard Stanton (cave rescue expert) (84 changes by 11 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. George Washington
  2. Donald Trump
  3. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
  4. Tham Luang cave rescue
  5. Origin of the Romanians

Stats

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