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, 114,789 authors made 751,544 changes to 324,427 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Elijah Abel (820 changes by 4 authors)
  2. Independent Group (UK) (608 changes by 104 authors)
  3. Deaths in 2019 (445 changes by 92 authors)
  4. 2019 China Open (snooker) (395 changes by 6 authors)
  5. Jussie Smollett (367 changes by 98 authors)
  6. 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis (349 changes by 32 authors)
  7. Brown ministry (349 changes by 4 authors)
  8. National Emergency Concerning the Southern Border of the United States (345 changes by 69 authors)
  9. 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries (344 changes by 75 authors)
  10. 2019 Pulwama attack (326 changes by 77 authors)
  11. Karl Lagerfeld (297 changes by 93 authors)
  12. Douglas Albert Munro (292 changes by 6 authors)
  13. Venezuela Aid Live (285 changes by 12 authors)
  14. 2019 Presidents Day protest (274 changes by 10 authors)
  15. 2019 London Skolars season (244 changes by 4 authors)
  16. The Umbrella Academy (TV series) (241 changes by 48 authors)
  17. Theodore Edgar McCarrick (231 changes by 40 authors)
  18. Luciana Berger (231 changes by 48 authors)
  19. Bruno Ganz (216 changes by 51 authors)
  20. Aurora, Illinois shooting (210 changes by 41 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. The Independent Group (608 changes by 104 authors)
  2. Venezuela Aid Live (285 changes by 12 authors)
  3. 2019 Presidents Day protest (274 changes by 10 authors)
  4. 2019 London Skolars season (244 changes by 4 authors)
  5. Aurora, Illinois shooting (210 changes by 41 authors)
  6. List of sponges of South Africa (177 changes by 2 authors)
  7. List of Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign endorsements (155 changes by 31 authors)
  8. Arman Loni (132 changes by 7 authors)
  9. William Thorne (philatelist) (131 changes by 4 authors)
  10. Goodloe Sutton (129 changes by 19 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Ilhan Omar
  2. 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis
  3. The Independent Group
  4. George Washington
  5. Mark Dice

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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