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, 202,330 authors made 1,052,179 changes to 540,640 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. GameStop short squeeze (830 changes by 273 authors)
  2. Deaths in 2021 (784 changes by 112 authors)
  3. 2021 Russian protests (487 changes by 138 authors)
  4. 2020 BWF World Tour Finals (409 changes by 19 authors)
  5. 2021 World Men's Handball Championship (405 changes by 82 authors)
  6. Larry King (393 changes by 158 authors)
  7. 2021 WST Pro Series (334 changes by 9 authors)
  8. Triple J Hottest 100, 2020 (293 changes by 18 authors)
  9. Cyclone Eloise (292 changes by 34 authors)
  10. Hank Aaron (281 changes by 155 authors)
  11. Godzilla vs. Kong (271 changes by 62 authors)
  12. Boyle County Rebels football team (271 changes by 7 authors)
  13. List of hospitals in Algeria (270 changes by 5 authors)
  14. Battle of France (244 changes by 6 authors)
  15. Daniel Craig (240 changes by 11 authors)
  16. Cloris Leachman (235 changes by 126 authors)
  17. UFC 257 (231 changes by 88 authors)
  18. Super Bowl LV (230 changes by 52 authors)
  19. Rus' people (226 changes by 9 authors)
  20. Kizil Caves (221 changes by 7 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. GameStop short squeeze (830 changes by 273 authors)
  2. 2021 Russian protests (487 changes by 138 authors)
  3. 2020 BWF World Tour Finals (409 changes by 19 authors)
  4. Boyle County Rebels football team (271 changes by 7 authors)
  5. Burmese Ghouls (MLBB) (150 changes by 25 authors)
  6. Archibald MacLaren (145 changes by 3 authors)
  7. Woman prayer (145 changes by 5 authors)
  8. Brian Rose (podcaster) (134 changes by 36 authors)
  9. Malcolm Fairley (132 changes by 5 authors)
  10. McDougall Duluth Shipbuilding Company (125 changes by 2 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. 2021 storming of the United States Capitol
  2. Joe Biden
  3. Donald Trump
  4. PragerU
  5. Axis powers

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

  • 123,539 registered users and 78,791 unregistered users made 1,052,179 edits to 540,640 articles
  • Unregistered users made 184,938 edits to 90,728 articles
  • 43 robots made 208,858 edits to 200,333 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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