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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, 157,943 authors made 781,503 changes to 368,958 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant (948 changes by 217 authors)
  2. Deaths in 2021 (576 changes by 77 authors)
  3. 2021 BWF World Tour Finals (414 changes by 51 authors)
  4. 2021 Davis Cup Finals (389 changes by 72 authors)
  5. Oxford High School shooting (375 changes by 63 authors)
  6. Virgil Abloh (340 changes by 172 authors)
  7. Stephen Sondheim (334 changes by 122 authors)
  8. Stars and planetary systems in fiction (311 changes by 2 authors)
  9. 2021 Ballon d'Or (305 changes by 106 authors)
  10. List of Brandeis University people (294 changes by 2 authors)
  11. 2021 Men's FIH Hockey Junior World Cup (249 changes by 35 authors)
  12. December 1903 (238 changes by 4 authors)
  13. Éric Zemmour (228 changes by 20 authors)
  14. 2021 UK Championship (225 changes by 35 authors)
  15. Maanaadu (214 changes by 95 authors)
  16. Robert Johnson (1745–1833) (213 changes by 2 authors)
  17. Marakkar: Lion of the Arabian Sea (206 changes by 83 authors)
  18. 2021 Honduran general election (202 changes by 59 authors)
  19. 2021 Women's World Floorball Championships (199 changes by 22 authors)
  20. Ringette (197 changes by 10 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. Oxford High School shooting (375 changes by 63 authors)
  2. C. N. Barclay (158 changes by 3 authors)
  3. Teodor Boldur-Lățescu (152 changes by 2 authors)
  4. Timeline of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant (133 changes by 27 authors)
  5. David Collier (political activist) (126 changes by 20 authors)
  6. Eugenio Chiesa (119 changes by 2 authors)
  7. Harald Poelchau (106 changes by 4 authors)
  8. 2016–17 Al Ain FC season (102 changes by 2 authors)
  9. 2020 AFF Championship squads (85 changes by 28 authors)
  10. Moira Smiley (84 changes by 10 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. J. K. Rowling
  2. Mass killings under communist regimes
  3. Waukesha parade attack
  4. Donald Trump
  5. SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

  • 98,374 registered users and 59,569 unregistered users made 781,503 edits to 368,958 articles
  • Unregistered users made 152,350 edits to 73,367 articles
  • 38 robots made 62,226 edits to 60,565 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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