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, 110,506 authors made 742,220 changes to 331,478 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Lion Air Flight 610 (787 changes by 130 authors)
  2. Tree of Life synagogue shooting (773 changes by 159 authors)
  3. 2018 World Series (590 changes by 44 authors)
  4. Statue of Unity (455 changes by 122 authors)
  5. October 2018 United States mail bombing attempts (439 changes by 69 authors)
  6. Red Dead Redemption 2 (425 changes by 73 authors)
  7. Deaths in 2018 (423 changes by 80 authors)
  8. Mutya ng Pilipinas (406 changes by 3 authors)
  9. 2018 International Championship (snooker) (395 changes by 8 authors)
  10. Killing of Jamal Khashoggi (334 changes by 43 authors)
  11. 2018 Leicester City F.C. helicopter crash (309 changes by 74 authors)
  12. The Voice (U.S. season 15) (290 changes by 15 authors)
  13. Chinese mythology (282 changes by 1 authors)
  14. Columbine High School massacre (270 changes by 3 authors)
  15. Culture of England (258 changes by 1 authors)
  16. Asia Bibi blasphemy case (255 changes by 47 authors)
  17. Veracity of statements by Donald Trump (250 changes by 19 authors)
  18. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (TV series) (241 changes by 36 authors)
  19. 2018 Rolex Paris Masters – Singles (241 changes by 25 authors)
  20. Whitey Bulger (240 changes by 76 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. Lion Air Flight 610 (787 changes by 130 authors)
  2. Pittsburgh synagogue shooting (773 changes by 159 authors)
  3. 2018 Leicester City F.C. helicopter crash (309 changes by 74 authors)
  4. Mirza Zulqarnain (134 changes by 3 authors)
  5. Tree of Life – Or L'Simcha (122 changes by 26 authors)
  6. Linqua Franqa (113 changes by 11 authors)
  7. Crime in Antarctica (112 changes by 5 authors)
  8. Dossibai Patell (110 changes by 4 authors)
  9. Operation Faithful Patriot (100 changes by 11 authors)
  10. Peter Brown (soldier) (94 changes by 1 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Killing of Jamal Khashoggi
  2. Gab (social network)
  3. Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
  4. October 2018 United States mail bombing attempts
  5. Trypophobia

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

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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