Hello there! Welcome to our weekly digest of Wikipedia activity.
Articles
This week, 112,833 authors made 712,671 changes to 308,323 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:
- George H. W. Bush (567 changes by 170 authors)
- 2018 UK Championship (533 changes by 15 authors)
- Yellow vests movement (530 changes by 101 authors)
- Death and state funeral of George H. W. Bush (524 changes by 91 authors)
- Deaths in 2018 (490 changes by 89 authors)
- 2.0 (film) (456 changes by 63 authors)
- Bigg Boss (Hindi season 12) (410 changes by 40 authors)
- Thomas Mulledy (310 changes by 2 authors)
- The Voice (U.S. season 15) (279 changes by 16 authors)
- 2018–19 NCAA football bowl games (272 changes by 33 authors)
- Kate Osamor (243 changes by 49 authors)
- Kerch Strait incident (242 changes by 48 authors)
- 2018 European Women's Handball Championship (238 changes by 16 authors)
- List of Bradford Bulls records and statistics (231 changes by 1 authors)
- Sentinelese (225 changes by 36 authors)
- List of Scooby-Doo characters (224 changes by 9 authors)
- Vevo (221 changes by 28 authors)
- History of the Dunedin urban area (202 changes by 5 authors)
- I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (UK series 18) (200 changes by 29 authors)
- Alexandros Schinas (198 changes by 9 authors)
New Articles
The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week
- Death and state funeral of George H. W. Bush (524 changes by 91 authors)
- 2018 Anchorage earthquake (152 changes by 35 authors)
- Viddal Riley (104 changes by 17 authors)
- 2006–07 PFC Cherno More Varna season (83 changes by 2 authors)
- James Stratford (printer) (81 changes by 2 authors)
- 42nd Arizona State Legislature (80 changes by 1 authors)
- Our Heavenly Bodies (79 changes by 4 authors)
- Scott Stearney (75 changes by 25 authors)
- Thomas Robins Bolitho (73 changes by 2 authors)
- Rosa Freedman (68 changes by 2 authors)
Discussions
The most active discussions:
- Origin of the Romanians
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
- List of military occupations
- George H. W. Bush
- Alexandros Schinas
Stats
A few numbers from last week:
- 40,131 registered users and 72,702 unregistered users made 712,671 edits to 308,323 articles
- Unregistered users made 172,179 edits to 84,070 articles
- 37 robots made 35,782 edits to 34,466 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.