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, 116,329 authors made 782,048 changes to 341,990 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis (906 changes by 98 authors)
  2. Deaths in 2019 (527 changes by 86 authors)
  3. Royal Rumble (2019) (506 changes by 66 authors)
  4. Juan Guaidó (428 changes by 41 authors)
  5. Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi (404 changes by 52 authors)
  6. 2019 Jolo Cathedral bombings (366 changes by 67 authors)
  7. Triple J Hottest 100, 2018 (316 changes by 18 authors)
  8. Brumadinho dam disaster (277 changes by 84 authors)
  9. WrestleMania 35 (253 changes by 29 authors)
  10. Timeline of European automobiles (235 changes by 4 authors)
  11. Royal Rumble match (216 changes by 27 authors)
  12. Frank Dux (203 changes by 4 authors)
  13. Coat of arms and flag of Transylvania (202 changes by 4 authors)
  14. 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries (199 changes by 57 authors)
  15. Roger Stone (186 changes by 58 authors)
  16. Frederick Hackwood (182 changes by 3 authors)
  17. Naomi Osaka (182 changes by 51 authors)
  18. List of terrorist incidents in January 2019 (180 changes by 16 authors)
  19. Howard Schultz (180 changes by 44 authors)
  20. 2018–19 United States federal government shutdown (179 changes by 76 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. 2019 Jolo Cathedral bombings (366 changes by 67 authors)
  2. Brumadinho dam disaster (277 changes by 84 authors)
  3. Frederick Hackwood (182 changes by 3 authors)
  4. Mopar Automatic Transmission Fluid (139 changes by 6 authors)
  5. 2019 St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy – Singles (137 changes by 15 authors)
  6. 2019 Arizona Wildcats football team (132 changes by 5 authors)
  7. Political positions of the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primary candidates (123 changes by 4 authors)
  8. Moriba Jah (111 changes by 10 authors)
  9. Inter-Allied Women's Conference (105 changes by 8 authors)
  10. Lucy Ayoub (103 changes by 12 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis
  2. Republic of Macedonia
  3. Electric smoking system
  4. Juan Guaidó
  5. Mark Dice

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

About

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