Hello there! Welcome to our weekly digest of Wikipedia activity.
Articles
This week, 179,515 authors made 1,043,810 changes to 535,190 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:
- 2021 storming of the United States Capitol (2,676 changes by 525 authors)
- Southall F.C. (793 changes by 4 authors)
- Deaths in 2021 (660 changes by 117 authors)
- Bigg Boss (Tamil season 4) (568 changes by 183 authors)
- Tanya Roberts (483 changes by 175 authors)
- 2020 US election Electoral College vote (415 changes by 86 authors)
- 2021 Abu Dhabi Women's Tennis Open – Singles (363 changes by 39 authors)
- List of equipment of the Bangladesh Army (358 changes by 19 authors)
- 2021 Championship League (331 changes by 9 authors)
- Killing of Dolal Idd (279 changes by 38 authors)
- 2021 PDC World Darts Championship (272 changes by 54 authors)
- List of foreign football players in India (254 changes by 7 authors)
- Royal Rumble (2021) (248 changes by 111 authors)
- Black Sunday (1960 film) (244 changes by 3 authors)
- MF Doom (239 changes by 52 authors)
- 2021 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (237 changes by 54 authors)
- Sven Botman (233 changes by 122 authors)
- List of shipwrecks in May 1942 (228 changes by 2 authors)
- 2020–21 United States Senate special election in Georgia (228 changes by 93 authors)
- RuPaul's Drag Race (season 13) (228 changes by 87 authors)
New Articles
The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week
- 2021 United States Capitol protests (2,676 changes by 525 authors)
- 2020 United States presidential election Electoral College count (415 changes by 86 authors)
- 2021 Abu Dhabi Women's Tennis Open – Singles (363 changes by 39 authors)
- Ashli Babbitt (210 changes by 85 authors)
- 2021 efforts to remove Donald Trump (199 changes by 80 authors)
- 2020 Gjerdrum landslide (194 changes by 68 authors)
- Jake Angeli (153 changes by 61 authors)
- Steven Gault (133 changes by 3 authors)
- Mughal Karkhanas (103 changes by 8 authors)
- Shrikhandi Bhittha (99 changes by 8 authors)
Discussions
The most active discussions:
Stats
A few numbers from last week:
- 110,165 registered users and 69,350 unregistered users made 1,043,810 edits to 535,190 articles
- Unregistered users made 172,874 edits to 83,628 articles
- 44 robots made 264,743 edits to 253,596 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.