the WEEKLYPEDIA

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, 164,766 authors made 858,228 changes to 412,040 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Sidney Poitier (657 changes by 254 authors)
  2. Deaths in 2022 (567 changes by 83 authors)
  3. 2022 Australian Open – Men's Singles (496 changes by 102 authors)
  4. J. K. Rowling (486 changes by 13 authors)
  5. 2022 Bronx apartment fire (465 changes by 126 authors)
  6. Dawn FM (414 changes by 81 authors)
  7. Royal Rumble (2022) (371 changes by 90 authors)
  8. 2022 Kazakh protests (356 changes by 101 authors)
  9. Bob Saget (314 changes by 143 authors)
  10. Ioan Caragea (313 changes by 1 authors)
  11. 2022 Australian Open – Men's Singles Qualifying (283 changes by 32 authors)
  12. 2022 India Open (badminton) (274 changes by 29 authors)
  13. Crocus (271 changes by 7 authors)
  14. SpaceX Starship (270 changes by 14 authors)
  15. 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election (262 changes by 75 authors)
  16. Amr ibn Ma'adi Yakrib (236 changes by 6 authors)
  17. Scream (2022 film) (235 changes by 85 authors)
  18. List of compositions by Alexandre Goria (229 changes by 6 authors)
  19. Advaita Vedanta (227 changes by 6 authors)
  20. 2022 Australian Open – Women's Singles Qualifying (227 changes by 19 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. 2022 Bronx apartment fire (465 changes by 126 authors)
  2. 2022 Arkansas House of Representatives election (218 changes by 4 authors)
  3. Raymond Brugère (205 changes by 7 authors)
  4. 2022 Sydney International – Women's Singles (175 changes by 33 authors)
  5. 2022 Sydney International – Men's Singles (152 changes by 24 authors)
  6. Peter Mallore (150 changes by 2 authors)
  7. 2022 Adelaide International 2 – Women's Singles (148 changes by 19 authors)
  8. 2022 Adelaide International 2 – Men's Singles (141 changes by 17 authors)
  9. Jerome Kuehl (105 changes by 6 authors)
  10. Capitólio rockfall (105 changes by 39 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory
  2. Mass killings under communist regimes
  3. 2021 United States Capitol attack
  4. Exodus of Kashmiri Hindus
  5. 2022 Kazakh protests

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

  • 102,238 registered users and 62,528 unregistered users made 858,228 edits to 412,040 articles
  • Unregistered users made 161,632 edits to 79,051 articles
  • 42 robots made 80,412 edits to 78,515 articles

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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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