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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, 154,822 authors made 785,988 changes to 378,359 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Spider-Man: No Way Home (775 changes by 192 authors)
  2. Deaths in 2021 (522 changes by 86 authors)
  3. Bigg Boss (Tamil season 5) (497 changes by 122 authors)
  4. 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix (382 changes by 113 authors)
  5. West Side Story (2021 film) (380 changes by 99 authors)
  6. 2021 Mnet Asian Music Awards (359 changes by 49 authors)
  7. December 2021 tornado outbreak (342 changes by 90 authors)
  8. Kenzō Shirai (306 changes by 3 authors)
  9. Frederick Atherton (302 changes by 3 authors)
  10. SpaceX Starship (298 changes by 14 authors)
  11. 2021 World Women's Handball Championship (296 changes by 43 authors)
  12. Nicholas Williamson (295 changes by 3 authors)
  13. 2021 Pacific typhoon season (292 changes by 38 authors)
  14. Harnaaz Sandhu (285 changes by 106 authors)
  15. SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant (284 changes by 55 authors)
  16. Ryan Cutrona (253 changes by 5 authors)
  17. Tropical Storm Rai (2021) (249 changes by 40 authors)
  18. Variyan Kunnathu Kunjahammed Haji (249 changes by 3 authors)
  19. Mixels (248 changes by 5 authors)
  20. Bell hooks (246 changes by 83 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. Tornado outbreak of December 10–11, 2021 (342 changes by 90 authors)
  2. Nicholas Williamson (295 changes by 3 authors)
  3. Cap-Haïtien fuel tanker explosion (165 changes by 43 authors)
  4. Log4Shell (140 changes by 36 authors)
  5. 2021 Western Kentucky tornado (140 changes by 46 authors)
  6. Rye Golf Club (121 changes by 2 authors)
  7. Keechant Sewell (116 changes by 20 authors)
  8. List of outlaw motorcycle club conflicts (115 changes by 5 authors)
  9. Ursula O'Leary (111 changes by 6 authors)
  10. 2020 WAFU Zone A Women's Cup (88 changes by 3 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Irreversible Damage
  2. 2021
  3. Julian Assange
  4. Spider-Man: No Way Home
  5. Mass killings under communist regimes

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

  • 96,418 registered users and 58,404 unregistered users made 785,988 edits to 378,359 articles
  • Unregistered users made 149,142 edits to 72,233 articles
  • 42 robots made 85,945 edits to 83,980 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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