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, 161,207 authors made 762,712 changes to 332,022 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Deaths in 2021 (570 changes by 94 authors)
  2. 2021 Kabul suicide bombing (485 changes by 118 authors)
  3. 2021 Atlantic hurricane season (403 changes by 63 authors)
  4. Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi 11 (400 changes by 53 authors)
  5. 2021 Women's European Volleyball Championship (395 changes by 38 authors)
  6. Charlie Watts (365 changes by 122 authors)
  7. April 1978 (313 changes by 4 authors)
  8. Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Paralympics (291 changes by 21 authors)
  9. 2021 US Open – Men's Singles Qualifying (281 changes by 26 authors)
  10. Molopospermum (281 changes by 3 authors)
  11. Ismail Sabri Yaakob (277 changes by 82 authors)
  12. 2021 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup (276 changes by 26 authors)
  13. Candidates of the 2021 Canadian federal election (264 changes by 29 authors)
  14. Hurricane Grace (259 changes by 80 authors)
  15. Panjshir conflict (258 changes by 71 authors)
  16. Hurricane Henri (256 changes by 89 authors)
  17. María (Ricky Martin song) (256 changes by 1 authors)
  18. 2021 US Open – Women's Singles Qualifying (253 changes by 19 authors)
  19. Fall of Kabul (2021) (251 changes by 84 authors)
  20. 2021 Winston-Salem Open – Singles (238 changes by 25 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. 2021 Kabul airport attacks (485 changes by 118 authors)
  2. 2021 US Open – Men's Singles Qualifying (281 changes by 26 authors)
  3. 2021 US Open – Women's Singles Qualifying (253 changes by 19 authors)
  4. Ismail Sabri cabinet (182 changes by 27 authors)
  5. 2020 Summer Paralympics medal table (181 changes by 25 authors)
  6. Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Frederick V of the Palatinate (155 changes by 1 authors)
  7. Horace B. Griffen (144 changes by 11 authors)
  8. 2021 Chicago Women's Open – Singles (137 changes by 16 authors)
  9. 2021 Tennis in the Land – Singles (136 changes by 17 authors)
  10. Ang Probinsyano (season 9) (128 changes by 24 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
  2. List of aqueous ions by element
  3. Persecution of Christians
  4. Steven Hassan
  5. Julian Assange

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

  • 99,570 registered users and 61,637 unregistered users made 762,712 edits to 332,022 articles
  • Unregistered users made 156,399 edits to 76,812 articles
  • 39 robots made 63,173 edits to 60,135 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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