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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, 141,951 authors made 718,443 changes to 330,240 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Joe Martin (orangutan) (637 changes by 15 authors)
  2. Colorado Springs nightclub shooting (630 changes by 155 authors)
  3. 2022 FIFA World Cup (582 changes by 167 authors)
  4. Deaths in 2022 (478 changes by 80 authors)
  5. 2022 Nepalese general election (454 changes by 41 authors)
  6. 1975 in the United States (407 changes by 2 authors)
  7. 2022 Malaysian general election (388 changes by 87 authors)
  8. List of most-liked Instagram posts (380 changes by 161 authors)
  9. 2022 European Curling Championships (329 changes by 27 authors)
  10. 2022 United States elections (325 changes by 36 authors)
  11. Drishyam 2 (2022 film) (295 changes by 135 authors)
  12. 2022 FIFA World Cup Group B (252 changes by 64 authors)
  13. Jason David Frank (252 changes by 107 authors)
  14. 2022–23 Bangladesh Premier League (245 changes by 41 authors)
  15. List of Malayalam songs recorded by K. J. Yesudas (243 changes by 5 authors)
  16. 2022–23 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier (240 changes by 18 authors)
  17. Palatines (239 changes by 4 authors)
  18. List of battles by geographic location (234 changes by 4 authors)
  19. Brazil at the Olympics (232 changes by 2 authors)
  20. 1989 in music (231 changes by 2 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. Colorado Springs nightclub shooting (630 changes by 155 authors)
  2. 2022 Chesapeake shooting (231 changes by 56 authors)
  3. 2022 University of Idaho killings (222 changes by 49 authors)
  4. David Atherton-Smith (177 changes by 4 authors)
  5. Jack Smith (lawyer) (169 changes by 43 authors)
  6. LATAM Perú Flight 2213 (109 changes by 39 authors)
  7. Rahul Ligma (98 changes by 2 authors)
  8. Operation Claw-Sword (98 changes by 30 authors)
  9. List of category 1 historic places in Auckland (90 changes by 3 authors)
  10. Principle of legality in French criminal law (84 changes by 7 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Colorado Springs nightclub shooting
  2. 2022 FIFA World Cup
  3. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
  4. Torture in Ukraine
  5. Donald Trump

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

  • 89,665 registered users and 52,286 unregistered users made 718,443 edits to 330,240 articles
  • Unregistered users made 141,680 edits to 71,177 articles
  • 37 robots made 49,955 edits to 46,873 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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