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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, 164,574 authors made 790,534 changes to 328,600 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics (778 changes by 64 authors)
  2. China at the 2020 Summer Olympics (743 changes by 69 authors)
  3. India at the 2020 Summer Olympics (655 changes by 129 authors)
  4. Russian Olympic Committee athletes at the 2020 Summer Olympics (645 changes by 56 authors)
  5. Deaths in 2021 (560 changes by 102 authors)
  6. Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics (542 changes by 64 authors)
  7. Archery at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's individual (490 changes by 34 authors)
  8. Germany at the 2020 Summer Olympics (460 changes by 22 authors)
  9. Australia at the 2020 Summer Olympics (452 changes by 67 authors)
  10. Archery at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's individual (448 changes by 30 authors)
  11. List of mainstream rock performers (443 changes by 5 authors)
  12. 2020 Summer Olympics medal table (440 changes by 112 authors)
  13. Netherlands at the 2020 Summer Olympics (437 changes by 36 authors)
  14. 2021 NHL Entry Draft (424 changes by 30 authors)
  15. Canada at the 2020 Summer Olympics (402 changes by 25 authors)
  16. Japan at the 2020 Summer Olympics (393 changes by 48 authors)
  17. Italy at the 2020 Summer Olympics (360 changes by 48 authors)
  18. 2021 Pacific typhoon season (330 changes by 25 authors)
  19. 2021–22 NHL transactions (316 changes by 11 authors)
  20. 2020 Summer Olympics Parade of Nations (307 changes by 90 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. List of mainstream rock performers (443 changes by 5 authors)
  2. List of protected areas of Colorado (253 changes by 2 authors)
  3. Food and the Scottish royal household (211 changes by 2 authors)
  4. 2021 Generali Open Kitzbühel – Singles (134 changes by 34 authors)
  5. History of the Jews in Odessa (130 changes by 10 authors)
  6. Roy Elonzo Davis (106 changes by 10 authors)
  7. Romain Cannone (106 changes by 24 authors)
  8. International Ringette Federation (99 changes by 9 authors)
  9. Scouring (textiles) (98 changes by 8 authors)
  10. Bassam al-Sabbagh (87 changes by 8 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Baidya
  2. 2021 Cuban protests
  3. COVID-19 lab leak hypothesis
  4. Czech Republic
  5. Adi Shankara

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

  • 101,699 registered users and 62,875 unregistered users made 790,534 edits to 328,600 articles
  • Unregistered users made 160,835 edits to 75,974 articles
  • 40 robots made 56,749 edits to 54,431 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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