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, 172,262 authors made 786,307 changes to 348,342 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. 2020 Republican National Convention (951 changes by 128 authors)
  2. 2020 Atlantic hurricane season (792 changes by 170 authors)
  3. Tropical Storm Laura (2020) (789 changes by 145 authors)
  4. Deaths in 2020 (496 changes by 87 authors)
  5. Coronation Street timeline (470 changes by 2 authors)
  6. Shooting of Jacob Blake (467 changes by 126 authors)
  7. Third party and independent candidates for the 2020 United States presidential election (378 changes by 29 authors)
  8. Tenet (film) (339 changes by 85 authors)
  9. 2020 NBA playoffs (310 changes by 57 authors)
  10. 2020 Pacific typhoon season (275 changes by 53 authors)
  11. Convention People's Party (263 changes by 10 authors)
  12. Six Flags AstroWorld (257 changes by 7 authors)
  13. Miss Earth 2020 (257 changes by 28 authors)
  14. List of Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign endorsements (256 changes by 63 authors)
  15. 2020 Western & Southern Open – Men's Singles (253 changes by 41 authors)
  16. 2020 Belarusian protests (251 changes by 52 authors)
  17. List of Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign endorsements (250 changes by 55 authors)
  18. Dynamite (BTS song) (248 changes by 61 authors)
  19. RuPaul's Drag Race (247 changes by 10 authors)
  20. 2020 Western & Southern Open – Women's Singles (245 changes by 36 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. Hurricane Laura (789 changes by 145 authors)
  2. Shooting of Jacob Blake (467 changes by 126 authors)
  3. Miron Sher (196 changes by 6 authors)
  4. Results of the 2020 Northern Territory general election (182 changes by 14 authors)
  5. Ice Cream (Blackpink and Selena Gomez song) (162 changes by 66 authors)
  6. Oireachtas Golf Society Scandal (145 changes by 39 authors)
  7. List of art methods (136 changes by 5 authors)
  8. 2020 Jolo bombings (130 changes by 33 authors)
  9. Maligaya (127 changes by 8 authors)
  10. King's Disease (126 changes by 39 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Swati (Pashtun tribe)
  2. Shooting of Jacob Blake
  3. Steve Bannon
  4. Kamala Harris
  5. Ayurveda

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

About

This project retrieves a list of the week's recent changes using Wikimedia Tool Labs, and delivers emails using MailChimp. Code and more information available on GitHub. Built by Stephen LaPorte and Mahmoud Hashemi.

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