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Hello there! Welcome to our weekly digest of Wikipedia activity.

Articles

This week, 133,787 authors made 821,636 changes to 385,334 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Killing of Brian Thompson (1,754 changes by 377 authors)
  2. Bashar al-Assad (489 changes by 233 authors)
  3. Battle of Damascus (2024) (472 changes by 173 authors)
  4. Deaths in 2024 (464 changes by 74 authors)
  5. 2024 Israeli invasion of Syria (449 changes by 150 authors)
  6. Fall of the Assad regime (432 changes by 220 authors)
  7. 2024 South Korean martial law (431 changes by 95 authors)
  8. Syria (396 changes by 152 authors)
  9. Ba'athist Syria (368 changes by 132 authors)
  10. Northwestern Syria offensive (2024) (361 changes by 119 authors)
  11. Brian Thompson (businessman) (358 changes by 135 authors)
  12. 2024 BWF World Tour Finals (341 changes by 22 authors)
  13. Andrew Jackson and the slave trade in the United States (326 changes by 7 authors)
  14. World Chess Championship 2024 (325 changes by 84 authors)
  15. 2025 FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship (292 changes by 7 authors)
  16. Bigg Boss (Tamil TV series) season 8 (288 changes by 89 authors)
  17. Point system (driving) (249 changes by 42 authors)
  18. Abu Mohammad al-Julani (249 changes by 68 authors)
  19. 2024 Men's T20 World Cup Americas Sub-regional Qualifier (247 changes by 9 authors)
  20. Pushpa 2: The Rule (241 changes by 61 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. Battle of Damascus (2024) (472 changes by 173 authors)
  2. Quneitra Governorate clashes (2024) (449 changes by 150 authors)
  3. Fall of the Assad dynasty (432 changes by 220 authors)
  4. Syrian transitional government (217 changes by 80 authors)
  5. 2024 Manbij offensive (212 changes by 68 authors)
  6. Reopening of Notre-Dame de Paris 2024 (210 changes by 84 authors)
  7. Southern Operations Room (155 changes by 46 authors)
  8. November 2024 Melbourne synagogue attack (152 changes by 21 authors)
  9. List of MPs elected in the 2024 Ghanaian general election (111 changes by 19 authors)
  10. Reactions to the Syrian opposition offensives (2024) (107 changes by 22 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Killing of Brian Thompson
  2. Syria
  3. Brian Thompson (businessman)
  4. Syrian civil war
  5. Killing of Jordan Neely

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

  • 86,546 registered users and 47,241 unregistered users made 821,636 edits to 385,334 articles
  • Unregistered users made 128,596 edits to 65,418 articles
  • 49 robots made 56,143 edits to 50,861 articles

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