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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, 186,645 authors made 1,000,688 changes to 511,188 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. 2021 storming of the United States Capitol (3,791 changes by 633 authors)
  2. Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 (1,239 changes by 283 authors)
  3. 2021 efforts to remove Donald Trump from office (894 changes by 300 authors)
  4. Deaths in 2021 (756 changes by 113 authors)
  5. Operation Indian Ocean (433 changes by 3 authors)
  6. Jake Angeli (335 changes by 88 authors)
  7. Donald Trump (329 changes by 109 authors)
  8. 2020 Yonex Thailand Open (319 changes by 21 authors)
  9. Parler (316 changes by 94 authors)
  10. 2021 Australian Open – Women's Singles Qualifying (315 changes by 20 authors)
  11. K.G.F: Chapter 2 (282 changes by 116 authors)
  12. Ralph Breaks the Internet (277 changes by 13 authors)
  13. International reactions to the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol (262 changes by 100 authors)
  14. 2020–21 NFL playoffs (254 changes by 35 authors)
  15. Sheldon Adelson (251 changes by 100 authors)
  16. Drivers License (song) (250 changes by 72 authors)
  17. List of last words (244 changes by 10 authors)
  18. Breathing (244 changes by 132 authors)
  19. 2021 Australian Open – Men's Singles Qualifying (244 changes by 24 authors)
  20. 2020–21 FA Cup (237 changes by 39 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 (1,239 changes by 283 authors)
  2. 2021 Australian Open – Men's Singles Qualifying (244 changes by 24 authors)
  3. Jessica Wallenfels (193 changes by 10 authors)
  4. Hou Youtang (161 changes by 5 authors)
  5. Algeria (disambiguation) (152 changes by 5 authors)
  6. COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Italy (152 changes by 7 authors)
  7. NFL on Nickelodeon (151 changes by 11 authors)
  8. Charles Roach (footballer) (145 changes by 6 authors)
  9. Malikism in Algeria (140 changes by 3 authors)
  10. Mawlid in Algeria (135 changes by 5 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. 2021 storming of the United States Capitol
  2. Donald Trump
  3. Parler
  4. Gab (social network)
  5. Sriwijaya Air Flight 182

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

  • 114,030 registered users and 72,615 unregistered users made 1,000,688 edits to 511,188 articles
  • Unregistered users made 175,469 edits to 84,916 articles
  • 46 robots made 221,025 edits to 212,980 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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