the WEEKLYPEDIA

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, 162,960 authors made 771,321 changes to 317,642 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics (800 changes by 71 authors)
  2. Deaths in 2021 (645 changes by 89 authors)
  3. India at the 2020 Summer Olympics (632 changes by 148 authors)
  4. Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics (521 changes by 75 authors)
  5. January 1974 (458 changes by 4 authors)
  6. 2020 Summer Olympics medal table (439 changes by 99 authors)
  7. Russian Olympic Committee athletes at the 2020 Summer Olympics (437 changes by 35 authors)
  8. Germany at the 2020 Summer Olympics (432 changes by 33 authors)
  9. 2021 Pacific typhoon season (429 changes by 24 authors)
  10. China at the 2020 Summer Olympics (427 changes by 46 authors)
  11. Australia at the 2020 Summer Olympics (389 changes by 59 authors)
  12. Sport climbing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's combined (361 changes by 29 authors)
  13. Netherlands at the 2020 Summer Olympics (332 changes by 17 authors)
  14. 2021 Pacific hurricane season (326 changes by 33 authors)
  15. Italy at the 2020 Summer Olympics (321 changes by 66 authors)
  16. RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars (season 6) (313 changes by 94 authors)
  17. Jungle Cruise (film) (304 changes by 109 authors)
  18. Happier Than Ever (295 changes by 82 authors)
  19. List of highest-grossing anime films (286 changes by 1 authors)
  20. Marcell Jacobs (286 changes by 126 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. 2021 Citi Open – Singles (224 changes by 30 authors)
  2. 2021 Kagame Interclub Cup (146 changes by 5 authors)
  3. Ashfaque Nipun (109 changes by 1 authors)
  4. 2021 Winners Open – Singles (104 changes by 20 authors)
  5. 2021 Silicon Valley Classic – Singles (94 changes by 16 authors)
  6. Love for Sale (Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett album) (91 changes by 20 authors)
  7. Dario Sorrentino (91 changes by 9 authors)
  8. The Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers (90 changes by 6 authors)
  9. Milavče train crash (86 changes by 12 authors)
  10. Achit Ikht Hydrometallurgical Plant (80 changes by 6 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. COVID-19 lab leak hypothesis
  2. 2021 storming of the United States Capitol
  3. Hispaniola
  4. Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry
  5. Shiatsu

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

  • 100,729 registered users and 62,231 unregistered users made 771,321 edits to 317,642 articles
  • Unregistered users made 160,726 edits to 76,158 articles
  • 37 robots made 49,275 edits to 46,289 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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