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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, 132,676 authors made 823,225 changes to 396,016 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. 2024 South Korean martial law (1,381 changes by 371 authors)
  2. 2024 Irish general election (681 changes by 98 authors)
  3. Deaths in 2024 (503 changes by 100 authors)
  4. Northwestern Syria offensive (2024) (482 changes by 111 authors)
  5. Brian Thompson (businessman) (460 changes by 169 authors)
  6. 2025 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification (387 changes by 10 authors)
  7. Killing of Brian Thompson (323 changes by 108 authors)
  8. Battle of Aleppo (2024) (301 changes by 98 authors)
  9. Timeline of the Israel–Hamas war (17 October 2024 – present) (261 changes by 12 authors)
  10. 2024 Nepal Premier League (248 changes by 26 authors)
  11. 2024 UK Championship (244 changes by 10 authors)
  12. 2024 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election (241 changes by 14 authors)
  13. Wicked (2024 film) (241 changes by 77 authors)
  14. Bigg Boss (Tamil TV series) season 8 (241 changes by 60 authors)
  15. 2024 United States presidential election (240 changes by 64 authors)
  16. 2024 European Women's Handball Championship (238 changes by 22 authors)
  17. World Chess Championship 2024 (222 changes by 52 authors)
  18. World Athletics Awards (220 changes by 6 authors)
  19. First battle of Eran (213 changes by 5 authors)
  20. Hashimoto's thyroiditis (213 changes by 8 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. 2024 South Korean martial law (1,381 changes by 371 authors)
  2. Brian Thompson (businessman) (460 changes by 169 authors)
  3. Assassination of Brian Thompson (323 changes by 108 authors)
  4. Battle of Aleppo (2024) (301 changes by 98 authors)
  5. Giles Capel (170 changes by 3 authors)
  6. 2024–25 Liga 4 East Java (166 changes by 4 authors)
  7. 2024 Hama offensive (162 changes by 60 authors)
  8. Operation Dawn of Freedom (158 changes by 43 authors)
  9. Raymond Elston (128 changes by 8 authors)
  10. 2024–25 Liga 4 South Kalimantan (120 changes by 3 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. 2024 South Korean martial law
  2. Donald Trump
  3. Zionism
  4. Brian Thompson (businessman)
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

  • 85,755 registered users and 46,921 unregistered users made 823,225 edits to 396,016 articles
  • Unregistered users made 125,663 edits to 65,091 articles
  • 45 robots made 49,666 edits to 45,890 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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