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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, 182,079 authors made 822,872 changes to 354,327 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Bigg Boss (Malayalam season 3) (873 changes by 264 authors)
  2. 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis (818 changes by 140 authors)
  3. Deaths in 2021 (775 changes by 98 authors)
  4. Cyclone Tauktae (507 changes by 97 authors)
  5. 2021 North Indian Ocean cyclone season (502 changes by 55 authors)
  6. Eurovision Song Contest 2021 (477 changes by 157 authors)
  7. History of timekeeping devices (338 changes by 8 authors)
  8. Invasion of Lingayen Gulf (326 changes by 3 authors)
  9. 2021 NBA playoffs (306 changes by 65 authors)
  10. History of slavery in Virginia (306 changes by 9 authors)
  11. Spiral (2021 film) (290 changes by 78 authors)
  12. 2021 Spain Masters (288 changes by 10 authors)
  13. K. K. Balakrishnan (280 changes by 92 authors)
  14. 2021 FA Cup Final (259 changes by 60 authors)
  15. Radhe (2021 film) (235 changes by 101 authors)
  16. Silas Wamangituka (234 changes by 105 authors)
  17. Sour (album) (233 changes by 52 authors)
  18. Tianwen-1 (232 changes by 71 authors)
  19. Foreign relations of Serbia (220 changes by 4 authors)
  20. Dil Chahta Hai (218 changes by 6 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. Dwijendranath Tagore (163 changes by 5 authors)
  2. 2021 Emilia-Romagna Open – Women's Singles (160 changes by 30 authors)
  3. 2021 Lyon Open (ATP) – Singles (147 changes by 34 authors)
  4. Health Service Executive cyberattack (138 changes by 21 authors)
  5. John Barefoot (127 changes by 5 authors)
  6. Quintin Jones (prisoner) (121 changes by 46 authors)
  7. Alfred Müller (actor) (119 changes by 4 authors)
  8. 2021 Serbia Open – Women's Singles (119 changes by 24 authors)
  9. Arrest of Rozina Islam (117 changes by 3 authors)
  10. Build a Bitch (103 changes by 43 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis
  2. 2021 storming of the United States Capitol
  3. Nicholas Wade
  4. Cryptocurrency
  5. War of 1812

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

  • 111,883 registered users and 70,196 unregistered users made 822,872 edits to 354,327 articles
  • Unregistered users made 179,205 edits to 83,941 articles
  • 33 robots made 70,111 edits to 64,897 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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