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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, 153,535 authors made 808,481 changes to 384,797 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. List of college sports team nicknames in North America (1,178 changes by 6 authors)
  2. Betty White (722 changes by 206 authors)
  3. Deaths in 2022 (470 changes by 64 authors)
  4. 2022 ATP Cup (419 changes by 63 authors)
  5. 2022 Kazakh protests (403 changes by 144 authors)
  6. Minimalist program (329 changes by 4 authors)
  7. Stuart Attwell (298 changes by 127 authors)
  8. J. K. Rowling (259 changes by 26 authors)
  9. Royal Rumble (2022) (257 changes by 85 authors)
  10. 2022 PDC World Darts Championship (250 changes by 58 authors)
  11. Dawn FM (244 changes by 58 authors)
  12. Zero-COVID (241 changes by 14 authors)
  13. List of Canadian artists (240 changes by 1 authors)
  14. British sitcom (237 changes by 15 authors)
  15. Bigg Boss (Tamil season 5) (231 changes by 19 authors)
  16. Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois (216 changes by 5 authors)
  17. Spider-Man: No Way Home (214 changes by 60 authors)
  18. 2021 Africa Cup of Nations squads (211 changes by 35 authors)
  19. List of Soul Train episodes (202 changes by 4 authors)
  20. Don't Look Up (2021 film) (194 changes by 98 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. 2022 Kazakh protests (403 changes by 144 authors)
  2. Zero-COVID (241 changes by 14 authors)
  3. 2022 Adelaide International – Women's Singles (180 changes by 29 authors)
  4. 2021–22 SC Dnipro-1 season (158 changes by 3 authors)
  5. 2022 Melbourne Summer Set 1 – Men's Singles (152 changes by 27 authors)
  6. Hans Hirsch (118 changes by 6 authors)
  7. 2019 Orchard Towers murder (109 changes by 3 authors)
  8. Wild edible plants of Israel / Palestine (99 changes by 2 authors)
  9. Thomas Davey (florist) (88 changes by 6 authors)
  10. Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom (January–June 2022) (86 changes by 5 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Betty White
  2. Incel
  3. Mass killings under communist regimes
  4. Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory
  5. 2021 United States Capitol attack

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

  • 95,943 registered users and 57,592 unregistered users made 808,481 edits to 384,797 articles
  • Unregistered users made 153,129 edits to 76,396 articles
  • 44 robots made 87,803 edits to 84,341 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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