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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, 197,817 authors made 1,046,695 changes to 542,543 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Deaths in 2021 (620 changes by 94 authors)
  2. Inauguration of Joe Biden (589 changes by 124 authors)
  3. 2021 storming of the United States Capitol (492 changes by 162 authors)
  4. Phil Spector (481 changes by 177 authors)
  5. 2021 World Men's Handball Championship (449 changes by 64 authors)
  6. 2020 Toyota Thailand Open (380 changes by 30 authors)
  7. 2021 WST Pro Series (353 changes by 15 authors)
  8. Donald Trump (339 changes by 129 authors)
  9. Joe Biden (336 changes by 144 authors)
  10. List of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, 1860–1879 (317 changes by 2 authors)
  11. Dustin Higgs (272 changes by 91 authors)
  12. Aari Arjuna (269 changes by 169 authors)
  13. WandaVision (269 changes by 66 authors)
  14. List of television films produced for American Broadcasting Company (268 changes by 1 authors)
  15. 117th United States Congress (261 changes by 56 authors)
  16. 2020–21 Australian region cyclone season (258 changes by 25 authors)
  17. Chuck Smith (American football coach) (252 changes by 13 authors)
  18. Social distancing (249 changes by 126 authors)
  19. 2021 U.S. Figure Skating Championships (238 changes by 10 authors)
  20. Amanda Gorman (233 changes by 118 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. Chuck Smith (Football Coach) (252 changes by 13 authors)
  2. List of Algerian saints (228 changes by 3 authors)
  3. Childcare benefits scandal (197 changes by 83 authors)
  4. Tandav (TV series) (192 changes by 80 authors)
  5. 2021 Texas Longhorns football team (184 changes by 10 authors)
  6. Andrew Harrison (journalist) (153 changes by 6 authors)
  7. Go See the Doctor (148 changes by 3 authors)
  8. Tropical Storm Eloise (2021) (135 changes by 20 authors)
  9. Nimbarkacharya (130 changes by 3 authors)
  10. 1922 Glamorgan County Council election (124 changes by 1 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. 2021 storming of the United States Capitol
  2. Donald Trump
  3. Joe Biden
  4. Parler
  5. Wuhan Institute of Virology

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

  • 120,893 registered users and 76,924 unregistered users made 1,046,695 edits to 542,543 articles
  • Unregistered users made 183,312 edits to 89,352 articles
  • 43 robots made 219,777 edits to 210,174 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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