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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, 184,741 authors made 847,738 changes to 383,555 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Deaths in 2021 (752 changes by 104 authors)
  2. 2021 Welsh Open (snooker) (580 changes by 19 authors)
  3. Bigg Boss (Hindi season 14) (386 changes by 146 authors)
  4. 2021 Punjab, India local elections (352 changes by 18 authors)
  5. Impossible Princess (301 changes by 2 authors)
  6. Michael van der Veen (282 changes by 125 authors)
  7. February 13–17, 2021 North American winter storm (277 changes by 74 authors)
  8. Rush Limbaugh (273 changes by 134 authors)
  9. List of places in Colorado (271 changes by 3 authors)
  10. Goldman Band (251 changes by 4 authors)
  11. Disha Ravi (251 changes by 32 authors)
  12. Bigg Boss (Malayalam season 3) (251 changes by 61 authors)
  13. 2021 Australian Open – Men's Singles (236 changes by 89 authors)
  14. 2021 Pacific typhoon season (219 changes by 29 authors)
  15. Donald Trump (219 changes by 56 authors)
  16. Draghi Cabinet (213 changes by 46 authors)
  17. 2021 Phillip Island Trophy – Singles (208 changes by 35 authors)
  18. Perseverance (rover) (202 changes by 99 authors)
  19. 2020 Men's World Floorball Championships (199 changes by 8 authors)
  20. Everything bubble (199 changes by 7 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. Michael van der Veen (282 changes by 125 authors)
  2. Draghi Cabinet (213 changes by 46 authors)
  3. 2021 Phillip Island Trophy – Singles (208 changes by 35 authors)
  4. 2021 Fukushima earthquake (187 changes by 42 authors)
  5. 5 yen note (185 changes by 1 authors)
  6. Death Don't Have No Mercy (174 changes by 3 authors)
  7. Operation Claw-Eagle 2 (173 changes by 31 authors)
  8. Lawrence Parsons (judge) (147 changes by 1 authors)
  9. Mathavakannan Kalimuthu (134 changes by 1 authors)
  10. Habr Yunis Sultanate (130 changes by 8 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. COVID-19 misinformation
  2. Donald Trump
  3. Gina Carano
  4. Palestinian enclaves
  5. Nazi Germany

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

  • 113,489 registered users and 71,252 unregistered users made 847,738 edits to 383,555 articles
  • Unregistered users made 176,586 edits to 86,265 articles
  • 45 robots made 77,362 edits to 73,567 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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