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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, 142,578 authors made 760,095 changes to 344,108 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. India at the 2022 Commonwealth Games (1,291 changes by 139 authors)
  2. England at the 2022 Commonwealth Games (953 changes by 21 authors)
  3. Deaths in 2022 (641 changes by 101 authors)
  4. Darjeeling (493 changes by 15 authors)
  5. Renaissance (Beyoncé album) (491 changes by 105 authors)
  6. 2022 Commonwealth Games medal table (432 changes by 117 authors)
  7. Indonesia at the 2022 ASEAN Para Games (414 changes by 22 authors)
  8. Ayman al-Zawahiri (385 changes by 136 authors)
  9. 2022 monkeypox outbreak (368 changes by 63 authors)
  10. Australia at the 2022 Commonwealth Games (339 changes by 24 authors)
  11. New Zealand at the 2022 Commonwealth Games (320 changes by 11 authors)
  12. Badminton at the 2022 Commonwealth Games – Mixed team (310 changes by 44 authors)
  13. Saint-Germain-des-Prés (abbey) (280 changes by 4 authors)
  14. Killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri (279 changes by 91 authors)
  15. Canada at the 2022 Commonwealth Games (278 changes by 18 authors)
  16. Bill Russell (266 changes by 108 authors)
  17. Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan (2022) (261 changes by 95 authors)
  18. UEFA Women's Euro 2022 Final (261 changes by 60 authors)
  19. 2022 Women's Youth World Handball Championship (250 changes by 16 authors)
  20. Vulture (Marvel Comics) (240 changes by 7 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. Killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri (279 changes by 91 authors)
  2. Nancy Pelosi's Taiwan visit (261 changes by 95 authors)
  3. 2022 Citi Open – Men's singles (171 changes by 30 authors)
  4. William fitz Roger (163 changes by 2 authors)
  5. 2022 Chinese military exercises around Taiwan (161 changes by 32 authors)
  6. Olenivka prison explosion (142 changes by 47 authors)
  7. Weightlifting at the 2022 Commonwealth Games – Women's 76 kg (110 changes by 16 authors)
  8. Vinusha Devi (107 changes by 9 authors)
  9. 2022 Silicon Valley Classic – Singles (105 changes by 14 authors)
  10. 2022 Citi Open – Women's singles (103 changes by 19 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Recession
  2. War crimes in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  3. Founding Fathers of the United States
  4. COVID-19 lab leak theory
  5. 2022 monkeypox outbreak

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

  • 89,997 registered users and 52,581 unregistered users made 760,095 edits to 344,108 articles
  • Unregistered users made 142,166 edits to 70,819 articles
  • 37 robots made 42,902 edits to 40,382 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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