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, 146,131 authors made 731,100 changes to 316,475 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election (2,269 changes by 355 authors)
  2. Death and funeral of Pope Benedict XVI (647 changes by 105 authors)
  3. Damar Hamlin (514 changes by 126 authors)
  4. 2023 United Cup (508 changes by 57 authors)
  5. Pope Benedict XVI (413 changes by 136 authors)
  6. Naturmuseum Senckenberg (390 changes by 2 authors)
  7. Deaths in 2023 (375 changes by 72 authors)
  8. George Santos (371 changes by 80 authors)
  9. Ronald Reagan (369 changes by 18 authors)
  10. Gogu Rădulescu (369 changes by 2 authors)
  11. Barbara Walters (360 changes by 107 authors)
  12. 2023 PDC World Darts Championship (357 changes by 62 authors)
  13. Deaths in December 2022 (353 changes by 87 authors)
  14. Max Wenner (341 changes by 3 authors)
  15. 2023 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (335 changes by 53 authors)
  16. Piolet d'Or (334 changes by 3 authors)
  17. Bigg Boss (Tamil season 6) (306 changes by 49 authors)
  18. 2022 University of Idaho killings (295 changes by 73 authors)
  19. William Faulkner bibliography (281 changes by 3 authors)
  20. Forbes Burnham (271 changes by 8 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. Gogu Rădulescu (369 changes by 2 authors)
  2. List of United States tornadoes in January 2023 (159 changes by 15 authors)
  3. 2023 Adelaide International 1 – Men's singles (151 changes by 27 authors)
  4. 2023 Rajouri Terror attacks (127 changes by 21 authors)
  5. America's Got Talent: All-Stars (124 changes by 21 authors)
  6. 2023 Gold Coast helicopter crash (124 changes by 26 authors)
  7. St. Anthony's High School (Assolna) (120 changes by 3 authors)
  8. 2023 Tata Open Maharashtra – Singles (114 changes by 17 authors)
  9. Kakusan-ni (113 changes by 5 authors)
  10. Victorian Women's Amateur Championship (108 changes by 1 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Damar Hamlin
  2. 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  3. 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election
  4. Aryan valley
  5. Andrew Tate

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

  • 92,330 registered users and 53,801 unregistered users made 731,100 edits to 316,475 articles
  • Unregistered users made 149,928 edits to 73,873 articles
  • 39 robots made 50,366 edits to 47,940 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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