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, 130,518 authors made 771,403 changes to 377,665 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Typhoon Yagi (2024) (1,033 changes by 147 authors)
  2. Andrew Jackson and the slave trade in the United States (545 changes by 8 authors)
  3. Deaths in 2024 (520 changes by 92 authors)
  4. Electoral fraud in the United States (507 changes by 10 authors)
  5. James Earl Jones (455 changes by 184 authors)
  6. List of Kamala Harris 2024 presidential campaign endorsements (448 changes by 74 authors)
  7. List of Canadian hip hop musicians (440 changes by 8 authors)
  8. List of legendary creatures from Japan (384 changes by 27 authors)
  9. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (352 changes by 161 authors)
  10. 2024 Haryana Legislative Assembly election (323 changes by 65 authors)
  11. The Greatest of All Time (300 changes by 51 authors)
  12. 2024 Hong Kong Open (badminton) (259 changes by 26 authors)
  13. Order of Friars Minor (248 changes by 1 authors)
  14. 2024 United States presidential debates (242 changes by 74 authors)
  15. Timeline of the Israel–Hamas war (13 July 2024 – present) (234 changes by 18 authors)
  16. 2024 Summer Paralympics medal table (222 changes by 34 authors)
  17. Rebecca Horn (219 changes by 22 authors)
  18. China at the 2024 Summer Paralympics (214 changes by 16 authors)
  19. Woolly mammoth (212 changes by 4 authors)
  20. Brazil at the 2024 Summer Paralympics (208 changes by 10 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. Interstate 75 Kentucky shooting (178 changes by 42 authors)
  2. Springfield, Ohio cat-eating hoax (174 changes by 65 authors)
  3. Russians at War (135 changes by 37 authors)
  4. 2023–24 in Algerian football (132 changes by 2 authors)
  5. IPhone 16 (115 changes by 47 authors)
  6. IPhone 16 Pro (94 changes by 43 authors)
  7. 2024 Allenby Bridge shooting (91 changes by 25 authors)
  8. Cathy Merrick (88 changes by 20 authors)
  9. Atari Calculator (88 changes by 6 authors)
  10. List of massacres of Bosniaks (79 changes by 11 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Gaza genocide
  2. 2024 United States presidential election
  3. 2024 Kolkata rape and murder incident
  4. Electoral fraud in the United States
  5. The Acolyte (TV series)

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

  • 83,801 registered users and 46,717 unregistered users made 771,403 edits to 377,665 articles
  • Unregistered users made 128,173 edits to 65,844 articles
  • 46 robots made 82,181 edits to 78,019 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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