Hello there! Welcome to our weekly digest of Wikipedia activity.
Articles
This week, 181,233 authors made 854,764 changes to 392,324 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:
- Deaths in 2021 (639 changes by 88 authors)
- 2021 Atlanta spa shootings (574 changes by 123 authors)
- 2021 Miami Open – Men's Singles (429 changes by 68 authors)
- 2021 Miami Open – Women's Singles (334 changes by 54 authors)
- 2021 Boulder shooting (332 changes by 63 authors)
- Justice (Justin Bieber album) (300 changes by 80 authors)
- 2021 Orléans Masters (293 changes by 21 authors)
- 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election (292 changes by 77 authors)
- Legality of child pornography (273 changes by 4 authors)
- 2021 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament (268 changes by 45 authors)
- Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team (265 changes by 61 authors)
- Zack Snyder's Justice League (264 changes by 86 authors)
- Bigg Boss (Malayalam season 3) (257 changes by 61 authors)
- List of fugitives from justice who disappeared (256 changes by 13 authors)
- The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (250 changes by 99 authors)
- James Larkin (246 changes by 11 authors)
- 2021 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play (242 changes by 15 authors)
- 2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election (236 changes by 96 authors)
- 2021 World Figure Skating Championships (235 changes by 21 authors)
- Fastlane (2021) (230 changes by 27 authors)
New Articles
The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week
- 2021 Miami Open – Men's Singles (429 changes by 68 authors)
- 2021 Boulder shooting (332 changes by 63 authors)
- Ever Given (193 changes by 93 authors)
- Ever Given grounding in the Suez Canal (184 changes by 82 authors)
- List of last words (20th century) (143 changes by 6 authors)
- Hocine Ziani (143 changes by 6 authors)
- List of pubs in Norwich (142 changes by 4 authors)
- Leo Stern (historian) (134 changes by 2 authors)
- R.F.C. World War I Drone Weapons (126 changes by 8 authors)
- 2021 New South Wales floods (126 changes by 41 authors)
Discussions
The most active discussions:
- 2021 Atlanta spa shootings
- Aimee Challenor
- 2021 Boulder, Colorado shooting
- Parental alienation
- Gender bias on Wikipedia
Stats
A few numbers from last week:
- 111,964 registered users and 69,269 unregistered users made 854,764 edits to 392,324 articles
- Unregistered users made 170,624 edits to 84,160 articles
- 39 robots made 80,958 edits to 78,061 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.