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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, 154,623 authors made 757,558 changes to 344,416 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Kenosha unrest shooting (595 changes by 127 authors)
  2. Waukesha Christmas Parade attack (534 changes by 109 authors)
  3. Deaths in 2021 (488 changes by 84 authors)
  4. List of University of Maryland, College Park people (467 changes by 1 authors)
  5. Ghostbusters: Afterlife (444 changes by 99 authors)
  6. 2021 Indonesia Open (353 changes by 33 authors)
  7. Christianization of the late Roman empire (279 changes by 11 authors)
  8. Arfaja al-Bariqi (278 changes by 12 authors)
  9. SpaceX Starship (274 changes by 11 authors)
  10. 2021 PBA 3x3 season (266 changes by 6 authors)
  11. Killing of Ahmaud Arbery (253 changes by 56 authors)
  12. Cowboy Bebop (2021 TV series) (252 changes by 86 authors)
  13. 64th Annual Grammy Awards (251 changes by 72 authors)
  14. List of University of Delaware people (249 changes by 1 authors)
  15. 1838 Jesuit slave sale (237 changes by 2 authors)
  16. Olympic Studios (235 changes by 6 authors)
  17. Survivor Series (2021) (235 changes by 42 authors)
  18. 2021 European Curling Championships (230 changes by 23 authors)
  19. PANDAS (221 changes by 1 authors)
  20. Peng Shuai (219 changes by 69 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. Eric Seal (210 changes by 3 authors)
  2. 2021 Bulgaria bus crash (210 changes by 65 authors)
  3. November 2021 English Channel disaster (172 changes by 20 authors)
  4. Top ten ranked male tennis players (1913–1972) (169 changes by 8 authors)
  5. Leo Santifaller (119 changes by 2 authors)
  6. 2021 Jerusalem shooting (101 changes by 25 authors)
  7. 2021 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's Singles (100 changes by 11 authors)
  8. John Hansson Steelman (98 changes by 6 authors)
  9. 2021 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's Singles (98 changes by 11 authors)
  10. LICIACube (97 changes by 9 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Waukesha Christmas Parade attack
  2. Kenosha unrest shooting
  3. Greeks
  4. The Wall Street Journal
  5. Julian Assange

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

  • 96,146 registered users and 58,477 unregistered users made 757,558 edits to 344,416 articles
  • Unregistered users made 149,571 edits to 72,920 articles
  • 39 robots made 55,356 edits to 53,220 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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