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, 158,909 authors made 793,641 changes to 374,272 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. 2021 Virginia gubernatorial election (638 changes by 139 authors)
  2. List of people from Philadelphia (598 changes by 3 authors)
  3. Gigglebiz (553 changes by 5 authors)
  4. Deaths in 2021 (513 changes by 91 authors)
  5. 2022 AFC U-23 Asian Cup qualification (442 changes by 109 authors)
  6. Annaatthe (401 changes by 168 authors)
  7. Survivor (Tamil season 1) (355 changes by 30 authors)
  8. 2021 New Jersey gubernatorial election (349 changes by 134 authors)
  9. 2021 Hylo Open (311 changes by 22 authors)
  10. 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (307 changes by 95 authors)
  11. Glenn Youngkin (303 changes by 113 authors)
  12. 2021 Rolex Paris Masters – Singles (302 changes by 48 authors)
  13. Eternals (film) (296 changes by 62 authors)
  14. Bigg Boss (Tamil season 5) (290 changes by 111 authors)
  15. 2021 South African municipal elections (288 changes by 43 authors)
  16. Let's Go Brandon (285 changes by 63 authors)
  17. Cornish phonology (277 changes by 4 authors)
  18. List of foreign USL Championship players (273 changes by 1 authors)
  19. Proclus (272 changes by 4 authors)
  20. Mohammed Shami (267 changes by 23 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. 2021 Rolex Paris Masters – Singles (302 changes by 48 authors)
  2. 2021 Salisbury rail crash (260 changes by 37 authors)
  3. 2021 Lagos high-rise collapse (185 changes by 38 authors)
  4. Team Seas (118 changes by 55 authors)
  5. Nicholas Hasselbach (printer) (118 changes by 4 authors)
  6. Minna Faßhauer (102 changes by 4 authors)
  7. Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam (100 changes by 1 authors)
  8. Jeanne Rowe Skinner (96 changes by 4 authors)
  9. 2021 Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup (80 changes by 15 authors)
  10. Club des Belugas (79 changes by 5 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Kathleen Stock
  2. Louis Riel
  3. Vaccine passports during the COVID-19 pandemic
  4. Sexual slavery in Islam
  5. Let's Go Brandon

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

  • 98,695 registered users and 60,214 unregistered users made 793,641 edits to 374,272 articles
  • Unregistered users made 154,513 edits to 75,229 articles
  • 41 robots made 51,365 edits to 49,320 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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