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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, 137,057 authors made 725,115 changes to 353,433 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. List of college sports team nicknames in North America (709 changes by 2 authors)
  2. Deaths in 2021 (565 changes by 95 authors)
  3. Bigg Boss (Tamil season 5) (427 changes by 169 authors)
  4. Don't Look Up (2021 film) (387 changes by 200 authors)
  5. John Madden (359 changes by 133 authors)
  6. Spider-Man: No Way Home (351 changes by 103 authors)
  7. Minnal Murali (327 changes by 151 authors)
  8. 2022 PDC World Darts Championship (316 changes by 70 authors)
  9. Desmond Tutu (308 changes by 114 authors)
  10. James Webb Space Telescope (289 changes by 154 authors)
  11. Variyan Kunnathu Kunjahammed Haji (279 changes by 9 authors)
  12. 1986 in the United States (276 changes by 1 authors)
  13. William Tecumseh Sherman (266 changes by 8 authors)
  14. Hòa Hảo (250 changes by 9 authors)
  15. Janice Long (227 changes by 70 authors)
  16. 2021 Africa Cup of Nations squads (221 changes by 25 authors)
  17. The Matrix Resurrections (214 changes by 62 authors)
  18. 83 (film) (205 changes by 65 authors)
  19. The Voice Kids (British series 5) (194 changes by 25 authors)
  20. Eunice Newton Foote (182 changes by 4 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. List of Hungarian locomotives (162 changes by 2 authors)
  2. Piotr Ogrodziński (160 changes by 5 authors)
  3. Charles Parish (154 changes by 4 authors)
  4. Foreign policy of the Woodrow Wilson administration (137 changes by 3 authors)
  5. 2021 Bangladesh ferry fire (114 changes by 36 authors)
  6. Puakea Nogelmeier (100 changes by 4 authors)
  7. Rider(2021) (84 changes by 6 authors)
  8. William Flower (Irishtown MP) (81 changes by 1 authors)
  9. Japanese Imperial Rituals (77 changes by 6 authors)
  10. Dimitar Kovačevski (75 changes by 13 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Mass killings under communist regimes
  2. WikiIslam
  3. Rapid-onset gender dysphoria controversy
  4. Irreversible Damage
  5. Ranked voting

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

  • 85,713 registered users and 51,344 unregistered users made 725,115 edits to 353,433 articles
  • Unregistered users made 136,093 edits to 68,708 articles
  • 36 robots made 62,530 edits to 59,986 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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