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, 175,337 authors made 813,765 changes to 376,426 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Deaths in 2020 (628 changes by 98 authors)
  2. 2020 China–India skirmishes (618 changes by 149 authors)
  3. Killing of Rayshard Brooks (497 changes by 108 authors)
  4. Sushant Singh Rajput (466 changes by 178 authors)
  5. List of companies listed on the Singapore Exchange (446 changes by 2 authors)
  6. Frederica von Stade (382 changes by 5 authors)
  7. George Floyd protests (338 changes by 131 authors)
  8. List of monuments and memorials removed during the George Floyd protests (320 changes by 51 authors)
  9. Bostock v. Clayton County (285 changes by 88 authors)
  10. George Floyd (277 changes by 53 authors)
  11. Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (276 changes by 40 authors)
  12. George Floyd protests in Minneapolis–St. Paul (247 changes by 25 authors)
  13. Cornelius Atherton (242 changes by 5 authors)
  14. History of Christian thought on persecution and tolerance (240 changes by 4 authors)
  15. Falsifiability (238 changes by 2 authors)
  16. Huey Long (237 changes by 7 authors)
  17. 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania (235 changes by 10 authors)
  18. List of awards and nominations received by Michael Jackson (234 changes by 11 authors)
  19. List of primates (218 changes by 10 authors)
  20. 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in New York (216 changes by 34 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. Killing of Rayshard Brooks (497 changes by 108 authors)
  2. Cornelius Atherton (242 changes by 5 authors)
  3. John Dartnell (130 changes by 4 authors)
  4. List of fictional lesbian characters (127 changes by 2 authors)
  5. Justine Kerfoot (127 changes by 4 authors)
  6. Sarah Hegazi (109 changes by 51 authors)
  7. Sue Bruce-Smith (100 changes by 5 authors)
  8. Walter Beling (98 changes by 1 authors)
  9. Xinfadi market (96 changes by 12 authors)
  10. State and UT Police Forces (95 changes by 1 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. George Floyd
  2. Killing of Rayshard Brooks
  3. Killing of George Floyd
  4. List of monuments and memorials removed during the George Floyd protests
  5. 2020 China–India skirmishes

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

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