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, 172,298 authors made 722,285 changes to 308,592 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Hurricane Dorian (898 changes by 177 authors)
  2. 2019 Atlantic hurricane season (560 changes by 111 authors)
  3. Midland–Odessa shooting (475 changes by 96 authors)
  4. Deaths in 2019 (429 changes by 83 authors)
  5. 2019 US Open (tennis) (397 changes by 52 authors)
  6. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (358 changes by 30 authors)
  7. 2019 Pacific typhoon season (298 changes by 40 authors)
  8. 2019 Chinese Taipei Open (298 changes by 11 authors)
  9. Indian summiters of Mount Everest - Year wise (285 changes by 10 authors)
  10. Norman Fucking Rockwell (273 changes by 85 authors)
  11. It Chapter Two (263 changes by 122 authors)
  12. 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests (249 changes by 73 authors)
  13. List of awards and nominations received by Britney Spears (249 changes by 13 authors)
  14. 2019 US Open – Men's Singles (244 changes by 77 authors)
  15. 2019 Santa Cruz Island diving ship sinking (241 changes by 88 authors)
  16. Escape the Night (237 changes by 60 authors)
  17. Alfred Waterhouse (220 changes by 7 authors)
  18. Tawag ng Tanghalan (season 3) (217 changes by 18 authors)
  19. 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup (214 changes by 75 authors)
  20. Bigg Boss Marathi 2 (203 changes by 111 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. Midland–Odessa shooting (475 changes by 96 authors)
  2. Sinking of MV Conception (241 changes by 88 authors)
  3. List of extinct animals of the Nordics (200 changes by 4 authors)
  4. Conte II Cabinet (128 changes by 18 authors)
  5. 2019 Spa-Francorchamps FIA Formula 2 round (119 changes by 25 authors)
  6. List of Strikeforce alumni (112 changes by 1 authors)
  7. Voyage of Greta Thunberg (109 changes by 12 authors)
  8. Texas Military Department (100 changes by 4 authors)
  9. Tang Wensheng (99 changes by 2 authors)
  10. Matthias Finucane (90 changes by 2 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Midland–Odessa shooting
  2. The Exodus
  3. Electrical telegraphy in the United Kingdom/GA1
  4. List of major perpetrators of the Holocaust
  5. Hurricane Dorian

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

About

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