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, 183,017 authors made 891,851 changes to 411,757 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. 2020 Nova Scotia shootings (1,016 changes by 182 authors)
  2. Deaths in 2020 (729 changes by 116 authors)
  3. Together at Home (531 changes by 114 authors)
  4. 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic (493 changes by 124 authors)
  5. Malappuram district (441 changes by 22 authors)
  6. 2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United States (440 changes by 96 authors)
  7. Yuga (421 changes by 5 authors)
  8. Coronavirus disease 2019 (407 changes by 78 authors)
  9. 2020 Easter tornado outbreak (343 changes by 66 authors)
  10. Tornadoes of 2020 (318 changes by 51 authors)
  11. Gothic cathedrals and churches (304 changes by 3 authors)
  12. Timeline of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in April 2020 (274 changes by 30 authors)
  13. Tom Moore (fundraiser) (271 changes by 84 authors)
  14. 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Africa (270 changes by 38 authors)
  15. 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Australia (259 changes by 36 authors)
  16. 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Greece (254 changes by 43 authors)
  17. Money in the Bank (2020) (246 changes by 74 authors)
  18. Heraldry (229 changes by 4 authors)
  19. List of synagogues in Romania (228 changes by 1 authors)
  20. List of United Progressive Alliance candidates in the 2009 Indian general election (224 changes by 3 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. Nova Scotia killings (1,016 changes by 182 authors)
  2. Silk Smitha Filmography (224 changes by 3 authors)
  3. List of United Progressive Alliance candidates in the 2009 Indian general election (224 changes by 3 authors)
  4. Goulburn Valley Football Association (200 changes by 1 authors)
  5. Pierre Dadak (188 changes by 5 authors)
  6. John Ferdinand Smyth Stuart (163 changes by 2 authors)
  7. Palghar mob lynching (148 changes by 48 authors)
  8. Tornado outbreak of April 22, 2020 (141 changes by 26 authors)
  9. List of former members of JKT48 (139 changes by 4 authors)
  10. Wikipedia's response to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic (125 changes by 20 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Nova Scotia killings
  2. 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic
  3. 2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United States
  4. Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
  5. Coronavirus disease 2019

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

About

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