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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, 174,782 authors made 833,748 changes to 383,211 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Deaths in 2021 (733 changes by 101 authors)
  2. 2021 Seroja cyclone (437 changes by 60 authors)
  3. Bigg Boss (Malayalam season 3) (437 changes by 102 authors)
  4. April 2021 United States Capitol shooting (426 changes by 90 authors)
  5. Paul Ritter (actor) (414 changes by 144 authors)
  6. Powis Castle (287 changes by 5 authors)
  7. 2021 World Men's Curling Championship (273 changes by 24 authors)
  8. Dancing with the Devil... the Art of Starting Over (259 changes by 96 authors)
  9. Ingombe Ilede (244 changes by 4 authors)
  10. 2020–21 Australian region cyclone season (228 changes by 27 authors)
  11. 2021 Volvo Car Open – Singles (218 changes by 39 authors)
  12. NXT TakeOver: Stand & Deliver (213 changes by 70 authors)
  13. 2021 World Snooker Championship (210 changes by 31 authors)
  14. Charles Henry Allan Bennett (197 changes by 7 authors)
  15. Atari, Inc. (194 changes by 7 authors)
  16. Roger Noble Burnham (183 changes by 1 authors)
  17. Godzilla vs. Kong (181 changes by 50 authors)
  18. 2021 African & Oceania Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament (180 changes by 12 authors)
  19. Cultural impact of Madonna (177 changes by 7 authors)
  20. 2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election (169 changes by 60 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. April 2021 United States Capitol attack (426 changes by 90 authors)
  2. 2021 Volvo Car Open – Singles (218 changes by 39 authors)
  3. 2021 alleged Jordanian coup d'état attempt (165 changes by 42 authors)
  4. 2021 Northern Ireland riots (139 changes by 48 authors)
  5. List of active duty United States Army major generals (126 changes by 4 authors)
  6. Hilda M. Hankerson (124 changes by 12 authors)
  7. List of service rifles by country (124 changes by 4 authors)
  8. 2021 Andalucia Open – Singles (123 changes by 37 authors)
  9. US Naval Advance Bases (117 changes by 6 authors)
  10. 2021 Copa Colsanitas – Singles (103 changes by 19 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. India
  2. Goths
  3. Uyghur genocide
  4. April 2021 United States Capitol attack
  5. Killing of George Floyd

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

  • 108,537 registered users and 66,245 unregistered users made 833,748 edits to 383,211 articles
  • Unregistered users made 168,790 edits to 83,430 articles
  • 39 robots made 79,109 edits to 76,999 articles

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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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