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, 153,974 authors made 696,088 changes to 319,756 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Deaths in 2020 (589 changes by 100 authors)
  2. Joe Biden sexual assault allegation (560 changes by 70 authors)
  3. 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Punjab, India (299 changes by 41 authors)
  4. Oral and maxillofacial surgery (275 changes by 8 authors)
  5. COVID-19 pandemic (250 changes by 90 authors)
  6. Gothic Revival architecture (246 changes by 6 authors)
  7. The Voice (American season 18) (227 changes by 48 authors)
  8. John Severson (218 changes by 3 authors)
  9. List of Ragas in Hindustani classical music (215 changes by 2 authors)
  10. COVID-19 pandemic in Africa (212 changes by 29 authors)
  11. COVID-19 pandemic in the Republic of Ireland (208 changes by 23 authors)
  12. Kamala Harris (199 changes by 11 authors)
  13. List of disasters in New York City by death toll (196 changes by 6 authors)
  14. Swaminarayan Sampradaya (195 changes by 10 authors)
  15. Kayleigh McEnany (191 changes by 49 authors)
  16. Dark Lane Demo Tapes (188 changes by 43 authors)
  17. Operation Gideon (Venezuela) (186 changes by 28 authors)
  18. Tom Moore (fundraiser) (181 changes by 44 authors)
  19. Money in the Bank (2020) (181 changes by 77 authors)
  20. 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Boston (180 changes by 8 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. La Guaira naval attack (186 changes by 28 authors)
  2. CSF Spartanii Selemet (173 changes by 6 authors)
  3. UP–UST rivalry (115 changes by 2 authors)
  4. Shooting of Ahmaud Arbery (100 changes by 27 authors)
  5. Division Street (Spokane, Washington) (84 changes by 3 authors)
  6. Rupert Dover (81 changes by 17 authors)
  7. 2020 United States anti-lockdown protests (77 changes by 21 authors)
  8. Nun Attax (76 changes by 4 authors)
  9. Madhopatti Village (72 changes by 1 authors)
  10. Kenneth Edward Henson (72 changes by 4 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Joe Biden sexual assault allegation
  2. COVID-19 pandemic
  3. Joe Biden
  4. American Revolutionary War
  5. Northern Epirus

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

About

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