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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, 161,899 authors made 813,179 changes to 386,272 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Deaths in 2021 (501 changes by 90 authors)
  2. Astroworld Festival crowd crush (450 changes by 47 authors)
  3. Barrister Babu (423 changes by 77 authors)
  4. 2021 Indonesia Masters (395 changes by 25 authors)
  5. Red (Taylor's Version) (378 changes by 124 authors)
  6. Kurup (film) (377 changes by 205 authors)
  7. Liverpool Women's Hospital bombing (349 changes by 54 authors)
  8. 2021 Belarus–European Union border crisis (302 changes by 93 authors)
  9. Road signs in Poland (288 changes by 2 authors)
  10. Zubayr ibn al-Awam (270 changes by 7 authors)
  11. List of songs recorded by Kishore Kumar (255 changes by 4 authors)
  12. Kenosha unrest shooting (249 changes by 66 authors)
  13. All Too Well (249 changes by 90 authors)
  14. 2021 Grand Slam of Darts (242 changes by 54 authors)
  15. Jim Jones (236 changes by 17 authors)
  16. Right to sit (232 changes by 5 authors)
  17. List of Iranian musicians (225 changes by 1 authors)
  18. Bigg Boss Marathi (season 3) (225 changes by 84 authors)
  19. November 1903 (224 changes by 3 authors)
  20. List of Southeast Asian mountains (221 changes by 7 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. 2021 Liverpool Women's Hospital explosion (349 changes by 54 authors)
  2. Right to sit in the United States (186 changes by 2 authors)
  3. Julius Darius Jones (175 changes by 36 authors)
  4. Kosmos 1408 (157 changes by 58 authors)
  5. H. R. C. Pettigrew (140 changes by 3 authors)
  6. The Army Quarterly and Defence Journal (134 changes by 6 authors)
  7. November 2021 Pacific Northwest floods (108 changes by 34 authors)
  8. Cheong Chun Yin (107 changes by 3 authors)
  9. Stella Jang (101 changes by 9 authors)
  10. Theodore Conrad (criminal) (98 changes by 10 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Crusades
  2. Kenosha unrest shooting
  3. Critical race theory
  4. Sexual slavery in Islam
  5. Steele dossier

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

  • 100,556 registered users and 61,343 unregistered users made 813,179 edits to 386,272 articles
  • Unregistered users made 156,238 edits to 75,613 articles
  • 35 robots made 90,490 edits to 88,916 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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