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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, 164,554 authors made 858,076 changes to 410,204 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption and tsunami (1,193 changes by 310 authors)
  2. 2022 Dallas synagogue hostage crisis (861 changes by 132 authors)
  3. 2022 Australian Open – Men's Singles (716 changes by 98 authors)
  4. Deaths in 2022 (608 changes by 91 authors)
  5. 2022 Australian Open – Women's Singles (462 changes by 72 authors)
  6. 2021–22 NFL playoffs (457 changes by 88 authors)
  7. Aafia Siddiqui (433 changes by 71 authors)
  8. Westminster lockdown parties controversy (397 changes by 41 authors)
  9. List of hospitals in New York (state) (393 changes by 3 authors)
  10. 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election (368 changes by 95 authors)
  11. J. K. Rowling (302 changes by 20 authors)
  12. Max Verstappen (278 changes by 14 authors)
  13. Thomas de Chaddesworth (272 changes by 1 authors)
  14. Scream (2022 film) (266 changes by 95 authors)
  15. Christopher Rungkat (262 changes by 5 authors)
  16. 2022 Australian Open (257 changes by 48 authors)
  17. 2022 Goa Legislative Assembly election (250 changes by 70 authors)
  18. Biathlon World Cup (247 changes by 3 authors)
  19. 2022 Syed Modi International (241 changes by 29 authors)
  20. 2022 European Men's Handball Championship (241 changes by 43 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption and tsunami (1,193 changes by 310 authors)
  2. 2022 Texas synagogue hostage crisis (861 changes by 132 authors)
  3. List of steam locomotives remaining in Hungary (195 changes by 2 authors)
  4. January 14–17, 2022 North American winter storm (191 changes by 44 authors)
  5. Bigg Boss Ultimate (Season 1) (168 changes by 35 authors)
  6. Benson Ford (160 changes by 6 authors)
  7. Lorne Edgar Campbell (147 changes by 5 authors)
  8. Historicity of the Mahabharata (132 changes by 10 authors)
  9. 2022 Abu Dhabi attack (125 changes by 24 authors)
  10. Nusantara (city) (115 changes by 32 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Mass killings under communist regimes
  2. Indigenous peoples of the Americas
  3. Colleyville synagogue hostage crisis
  4. Yahweh
  5. Aafia Siddiqui

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

  • 102,324 registered users and 62,230 unregistered users made 858,076 edits to 410,204 articles
  • Unregistered users made 164,285 edits to 79,531 articles
  • 37 robots made 106,278 edits to 102,241 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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