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, 170,374 authors made 870,569 changes to 401,738 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303 (798 changes by 202 authors)
  2. Death of George Floyd (661 changes by 152 authors)
  3. Deaths in 2020 (519 changes by 88 authors)
  4. The Balme Library (452 changes by 9 authors)
  5. Rain on Me (Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande song) (375 changes by 94 authors)
  6. Leonard Neale (355 changes by 2 authors)
  7. University of Ghana (339 changes by 10 authors)
  8. Fredrick Chien (312 changes by 6 authors)
  9. Dominic Cummings (284 changes by 106 authors)
  10. Foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration (279 changes by 4 authors)
  11. Jagdgeschwader 26 (277 changes by 5 authors)
  12. Ghana Library Authority (268 changes by 6 authors)
  13. COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom (255 changes by 42 authors)
  14. African Library and Information Associations and Institutions -AfLIA (249 changes by 7 authors)
  15. History of Christian thought on persecution and tolerance (246 changes by 9 authors)
  16. Crew Dragon Demo-2 (244 changes by 78 authors)
  17. COVID-19 pandemic in Africa (240 changes by 23 authors)
  18. Chromatica (230 changes by 55 authors)
  19. Macuto Bay raid (228 changes by 23 authors)
  20. Gillian Clark (badminton) (218 changes by 57 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303 (798 changes by 202 authors)
  2. Death of George Floyd (662 changes by 153 authors)
  3. Abey Belasco (187 changes by 3 authors)
  4. National People's Congress Decision on Hong Kong national security legislation (186 changes by 49 authors)
  5. Verzuz (171 changes by 7 authors)
  6. 2020 Championship League (165 changes by 14 authors)
  7. Zara Abid (148 changes by 38 authors)
  8. Gilbert R. Spalding (148 changes by 4 authors)
  9. Sour Candy (Lady Gaga and Blackpink song) (113 changes by 30 authors)
  10. Ricky Dineen (103 changes by 6 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Donald Trump
  2. Death of George Floyd
  3. Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303
  4. Chronic fatigue syndrome
  5. Joe Biden

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

About

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