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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, 175,795 authors made 758,461 changes to 328,342 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. 2020 Atlantic hurricane season (854 changes by 191 authors)
  2. 2020 European Masters (2) (544 changes by 17 authors)
  3. Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (532 changes by 80 authors)
  4. Ruth Bader Ginsburg (529 changes by 189 authors)
  5. Deaths in 2020 (510 changes by 96 authors)
  6. Amy Coney Barrett (426 changes by 121 authors)
  7. Next Trump nomination (408 changes by 66 authors)
  8. List of Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign endorsements (312 changes by 33 authors)
  9. 2020 French Open – Men's Singles Qualifying (303 changes by 25 authors)
  10. Swaminarayan Sampradaya (289 changes by 16 authors)
  11. 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards (284 changes by 95 authors)
  12. 911 (Lady Gaga song) (264 changes by 27 authors)
  13. Khamzat Chimaev (238 changes by 80 authors)
  14. 2020 French Open – Men's Singles (237 changes by 24 authors)
  15. Kuruluş: Osman (236 changes by 46 authors)
  16. 2020 Championship League (2) (227 changes by 14 authors)
  17. English Gothic stained glass windows (220 changes by 6 authors)
  18. John Turner (213 changes by 58 authors)
  19. 2020 U.S. Open (golf) (208 changes by 31 authors)
  20. 2020 French Open – Women's Singles Qualifying (207 changes by 13 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (532 changes by 80 authors)
  2. 2020 United States Supreme Court vacancy (408 changes by 66 authors)
  3. English Gothic stained glass windows (220 changes by 6 authors)
  4. FinCEN Files (201 changes by 35 authors)
  5. William R. Larson (194 changes by 7 authors)
  6. 2020 Hamburg European Open – Singles (170 changes by 27 authors)
  7. Jewels of Mary Queen of Scots (122 changes by 2 authors)
  8. Peter Huxley-Blythe (118 changes by 6 authors)
  9. List of Bands in Goa (111 changes by 7 authors)
  10. 2021 in anime (98 changes by 5 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Kyiv
  2. American Revolutionary War
  3. Death and funeral of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  4. Margot (activist)
  5. World War II

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

  • 107,743 registered users and 68,052 unregistered users made 758,461 edits to 328,342 articles
  • Unregistered users made 167,528 edits to 81,882 articles
  • 41 robots made 48,537 edits to 46,248 articles

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About

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

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