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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, 184,161 authors made 868,510 changes to 402,427 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. 2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election (909 changes by 223 authors)
  2. Deaths in 2021 (758 changes by 103 authors)
  3. Oprah with Meghan and Harry (735 changes by 78 authors)
  4. Newcastle upon Tyne (396 changes by 11 authors)
  5. 2021 UK Open (348 changes by 15 authors)
  6. 2021 Gibraltar Open (290 changes by 15 authors)
  7. 2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election (289 changes by 51 authors)
  8. 2021 Assam Legislative Assembly election (265 changes by 28 authors)
  9. 2021 Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament (263 changes by 11 authors)
  10. 2021 WST Pro Series (246 changes by 15 authors)
  11. 2021 Dubai Tennis Championships – Women's Singles (242 changes by 49 authors)
  12. Eurovision Song Contest 2021 (236 changes by 74 authors)
  13. History of African Americans in Philadelphia (219 changes by 6 authors)
  14. 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election (218 changes by 33 authors)
  15. Ahmed Mahsas (214 changes by 10 authors)
  16. Bigg Boss (Malayalam season 3) (213 changes by 59 authors)
  17. Toronto Raptors accomplishments and records (202 changes by 12 authors)
  18. Helen Wills (199 changes by 6 authors)
  19. One (2021 film) (199 changes by 26 authors)
  20. 2020-21 Road Safety World Series (195 changes by 51 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. 2021 Dubai Tennis Championships – Women's Singles (242 changes by 49 authors)
  2. Ahmed Mahsas (214 changes by 10 authors)
  3. List of 18th-century women printers and publishers (161 changes by 6 authors)
  4. Mohamed Missouri (160 changes by 5 authors)
  5. 2021 Chile Open – Singles (159 changes by 19 authors)
  6. The Series Finale (153 changes by 56 authors)
  7. 2021 Bata explosions (152 changes by 50 authors)
  8. Mercury contamination in Grassy Narrows, Ontario, Canada (147 changes by 6 authors)
  9. Mohamed Belhocine (146 changes by 6 authors)
  10. Nathaniel Burt (135 changes by 2 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. RuPaul's Drag Race UK (series 2)
  2. Republican Party (United States)
  3. Oprah with Meghan and Harry
  4. Palestinian political violence
  5. Great Wall of China

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

  • 113,553 registered users and 70,608 unregistered users made 868,510 edits to 402,427 articles
  • Unregistered users made 173,825 edits to 85,114 articles
  • 37 robots made 89,433 edits to 86,086 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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