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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, 197,349 authors made 983,504 changes to 477,651 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. GameStop short squeeze (941 changes by 191 authors)
  2. Deaths in 2021 (665 changes by 100 authors)
  3. Royal Rumble (2021) (632 changes by 88 authors)
  4. 2021 Myanmar coup d'état attempt (517 changes by 179 authors)
  5. Min Aung Hlaing (392 changes by 152 authors)
  6. Sophie (musician) (352 changes by 146 authors)
  7. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (331 changes by 6 authors)
  8. Marjorie Taylor Greene (329 changes by 74 authors)
  9. 2021 T10 League (319 changes by 15 authors)
  10. Collage Of Cape Town (311 changes by 2 authors)
  11. List of West Coast hip hop artists (249 changes by 29 authors)
  12. Captain Tom (249 changes by 106 authors)
  13. 2020–21 South Pacific cyclone season (246 changes by 27 authors)
  14. 2021 storming of the United States Capitol (239 changes by 77 authors)
  15. 2021 Russian protests (235 changes by 63 authors)
  16. Bruno Mankowski (225 changes by 4 authors)
  17. Late January 2021 North American winter storm (224 changes by 29 authors)
  18. List of Tamil films of the 1930s (222 changes by 1 authors)
  19. Black (2005 film) (221 changes by 5 authors)
  20. Nay Chi Oo (217 changes by 112 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. 2021 Myanmar coup d'état (517 changes by 179 authors)
  2. Collage Of Cape Town (311 changes by 2 authors)
  3. Expedition of the Col des Beni Aïcha (208 changes by 4 authors)
  4. Manchester United F.C. 9–0 Southampton F.C. (166 changes by 43 authors)
  5. Kamsaar Pathans (151 changes by 12 authors)
  6. 2021 Great Ocean Road Open – Singles (140 changes by 26 authors)
  7. Wynn Irwin (136 changes by 10 authors)
  8. 2021 Wooroloo bushfire (134 changes by 15 authors)
  9. 2021 Murray River Open – Singles (123 changes by 21 authors)
  10. NXT TakeOver 33 (122 changes by 39 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. 2021 storming of the United States Capitol
  2. Donald Trump
  3. United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020
  4. Philosophy Tube
  5. GameStop short squeeze

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

  • 120,759 registered users and 76,590 unregistered users made 983,504 edits to 477,651 articles
  • Unregistered users made 185,315 edits to 89,945 articles
  • 46 robots made 154,393 edits to 150,992 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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