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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, 159,720 authors made 804,850 changes to 387,391 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Deaths in 2021 (543 changes by 79 authors)
  2. SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant (515 changes by 83 authors)
  3. List of college sports team nicknames in North America (443 changes by 4 authors)
  4. Bipin Rawat (434 changes by 207 authors)
  5. 2020 Men's World Floorball Championships (400 changes by 22 authors)
  6. Bigg Boss (Tamil season 5) (367 changes by 99 authors)
  7. Oxford High School shooting (366 changes by 53 authors)
  8. 2021 World Women's Handball Championship (354 changes by 38 authors)
  9. World Chess Championship 2021 (337 changes by 85 authors)
  10. List of foreign football players in A PFG (307 changes by 2 authors)
  11. 2021 FIFA Arab Cup (303 changes by 97 authors)
  12. List of hospitals in Kenya (289 changes by 3 authors)
  13. 2021 Indian Air Force Mil Mi-17 crash (287 changes by 107 authors)
  14. 2021 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament (271 changes by 14 authors)
  15. Bob Dole (266 changes by 93 authors)
  16. 2021 Eruption of Semeru (251 changes by 73 authors)
  17. Ryan Cutrona (251 changes by 7 authors)
  18. Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas (250 changes by 12 authors)
  19. Christianization of the Roman Empire (247 changes by 7 authors)
  20. Akhanda (246 changes by 93 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. 2021 Indian Air Force Mil Mi-17 crash (287 changes by 107 authors)
  2. 2021 Semeru eruption (251 changes by 73 authors)
  3. Aline Atherton-Smith (224 changes by 4 authors)
  4. Chronicle of the 20th Century (168 changes by 2 authors)
  5. Housmans (bookshop) (150 changes by 13 authors)
  6. 2021 Oting Nagaland massacre (138 changes by 23 authors)
  7. R v Smith (1900) (116 changes by 2 authors)
  8. Indonesia at the 2021 Asian Youth Para Games (104 changes by 6 authors)
  9. Johnny the Walrus (102 changes by 13 authors)
  10. Anna Edinger (99 changes by 5 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Mass killings under communist regimes
  2. Oxford High School shooting
  3. SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant
  4. J. K. Rowling
  5. Country

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

  • 99,541 registered users and 60,179 unregistered users made 804,850 edits to 387,391 articles
  • Unregistered users made 155,045 edits to 74,992 articles
  • 36 robots made 79,571 edits to 76,904 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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