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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, 181,076 authors made 879,104 changes to 405,972 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Ryanair Flight 4978 (813 changes by 207 authors)
  2. Deaths in 2021 (719 changes by 92 authors)
  3. Eurovision Song Contest 2021 (522 changes by 190 authors)
  4. Cyclone Yaas (416 changes by 54 authors)
  5. Raman Pratasevich (403 changes by 107 authors)
  6. Eurovision Song Contest 2022 (384 changes by 148 authors)
  7. Army of the Dead (364 changes by 121 authors)
  8. 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis (363 changes by 67 authors)
  9. Sour (album) (313 changes by 84 authors)
  10. Samuel Daniel (295 changes by 10 authors)
  11. 2021 North Indian Ocean cyclone season (293 changes by 46 authors)
  12. Buffalo, New York (293 changes by 4 authors)
  13. Kevin Paffrath (279 changes by 36 authors)
  14. Stresa–Mottarone cable car crash (275 changes by 87 authors)
  15. 2021 French Open – Men's Singles Qualifying (274 changes by 31 authors)
  16. List of NPR stations (270 changes by 1 authors)
  17. Joseph Harrison Jr. (255 changes by 3 authors)
  18. 2021 NBA playoffs (255 changes by 45 authors)
  19. 2021 French Open – Women's Singles Qualifying (254 changes by 22 authors)
  20. Tennessee (253 changes by 10 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. Ryanair Flight 4978 (813 changes by 207 authors)
  2. Cyclone Yaas (416 changes by 54 authors)
  3. Stresa-Mottarone cable car disaster (275 changes by 87 authors)
  4. 2021 French Open – Men's Singles Qualifying (274 changes by 31 authors)
  5. 2021 French Open – Women's Singles Qualifying (254 changes by 22 authors)
  6. Queen's Quest (professional wrestling) (161 changes by 2 authors)
  7. Boris Holban (144 changes by 3 authors)
  8. Lyubko Deresh (134 changes by 6 authors)
  9. 2021 Belgrade Open – Singles (132 changes by 29 authors)
  10. Wardrobe of Mary, Queen of Scots (128 changes by 3 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis
  2. Ryanair Flight 4978
  3. 2021 storming of the United States Capitol
  4. Raman Pratasevich
  5. Ayurveda

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

  • 111,334 registered users and 69,742 unregistered users made 879,104 edits to 405,972 articles
  • Unregistered users made 175,911 edits to 83,071 articles
  • 43 robots made 102,696 edits to 97,765 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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