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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, 160,676 authors made 759,791 changes to 337,592 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. 2021 Astroworld stampede (923 changes by 217 authors)
  2. Deaths in 2021 (483 changes by 88 authors)
  3. Eternals (film) (347 changes by 87 authors)
  4. Zubayr ibn al-Awam (325 changes by 10 authors)
  5. Angel (Chaka Khan song) (319 changes by 6 authors)
  6. Freetown fuel tanker explosion (317 changes by 72 authors)
  7. June 1989 (315 changes by 2 authors)
  8. List of people from Philadelphia (284 changes by 3 authors)
  9. Thomas D'Oylie (262 changes by 2 authors)
  10. List of foreign USL Championship players (255 changes by 1 authors)
  11. 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Americas Qualifier (253 changes by 7 authors)
  12. World number 1 ranked male tennis players (247 changes by 10 authors)
  13. Sooryavanshi (245 changes by 68 authors)
  14. Manikganj District (226 changes by 3 authors)
  15. 2021 Virginia House of Delegates election (224 changes by 11 authors)
  16. History of the electric vehicle (222 changes by 6 authors)
  17. Survivor (Tamil season 1) (221 changes by 31 authors)
  18. Kurup (film) (221 changes by 103 authors)
  19. University of Austin (219 changes by 48 authors)
  20. List of Reading Rainbow episodes (214 changes by 9 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. Astroworld Festival crowd crush (923 changes by 217 authors)
  2. Angel (Chaka Khan song) (319 changes by 6 authors)
  3. Thomas D'Oylie (262 changes by 2 authors)
  4. University of Austin (219 changes by 48 authors)
  5. The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History (159 changes by 2 authors)
  6. 2021 Stockholm Open – Singles (156 changes by 30 authors)
  7. 2021 Upper Austria Ladies Linz – Singles (154 changes by 31 authors)
  8. Attempted assassination of Mustafa Al-Kadhimi (142 changes by 24 authors)
  9. Casatiello (134 changes by 5 authors)
  10. Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe (122 changes by 5 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Warsaw concentration camp
  2. Kathleen Stock
  3. Astroworld Festival stampede
  4. Sexual slavery in Islam
  5. Kenosha unrest shooting

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

  • 99,722 registered users and 60,954 unregistered users made 759,791 edits to 337,592 articles
  • Unregistered users made 157,496 edits to 75,980 articles
  • 36 robots made 50,421 edits to 47,544 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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