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, 141,836 authors made 847,402 changes to 413,268 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. January 2025 Southern California wildfires (690 changes by 253 authors)
  2. Bigg Boss (Hindi TV series) season 18 (644 changes by 215 authors)
  3. Bigg Boss (Tamil TV series) season 8 (635 changes by 200 authors)
  4. Deaths in 2025 (556 changes by 109 authors)
  5. 2025 New Orleans truck attack (414 changes by 110 authors)
  6. 2025 Xizang earthquake (383 changes by 78 authors)
  7. 2025 Malaysia Open (badminton) (346 changes by 17 authors)
  8. Palisades Fire (2025) (337 changes by 124 authors)
  9. Death and state funeral of Jimmy Carter (334 changes by 63 authors)
  10. J.P. (rapper) (321 changes by 2 authors)
  11. Luke Littler (317 changes by 82 authors)
  12. 2025 Australian Open – Men's singles qualifying (311 changes by 13 authors)
  13. English claims to the French throne (302 changes by 5 authors)
  14. List of nicknames in Philippine entertainment (285 changes by 5 authors)
  15. 2025 Australian Open – Women's singles qualifying (285 changes by 12 authors)
  16. 2025 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election (284 changes by 86 authors)
  17. 2025 Championship League (invitational) (277 changes by 4 authors)
  18. Game Changer (film) (271 changes by 98 authors)
  19. Timeline of the Israel–Hamas war (27 November 2024 – present) (244 changes by 11 authors)
  20. The Vivienne (239 changes by 94 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. 2025 Southern California windstorm (690 changes by 253 authors)
  2. 2025 Xizang earthquake (383 changes by 78 authors)
  3. Palisades Fire (2025) (337 changes by 124 authors)
  4. HMPV outbreak in Northeast Asia (2024–present) (158 changes by 59 authors)
  5. GeForce RTX 50 Series (155 changes by 29 authors)
  6. Japanese Proof Set (153 changes by 1 authors)
  7. January 2025 Richmond water outage (129 changes by 16 authors)
  8. January 2025 North American winter storm (121 changes by 31 authors)
  9. Resignation of Justin Trudeau (106 changes by 49 authors)
  10. Eaton Fire (105 changes by 44 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. COVID-19 lab leak theory
  2. January 2025 Southern California wildfires
  3. Elon Musk
  4. Tommy Robinson
  5. Forced sterilization in Peru/GA1

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

  • 91,073 registered users and 50,763 unregistered users made 847,402 edits to 413,268 articles
  • Unregistered users made 135,614 edits to 67,684 articles
  • 52 robots made 64,493 edits to 60,675 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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