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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, 138,952 authors made 773,666 changes to 359,278 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. 2025 German federal election (573 changes by 190 authors)
  2. Deaths in 2025 (549 changes by 102 authors)
  3. List of plays adapted into feature films (489 changes by 6 authors)
  4. Gene Hackman (485 changes by 189 authors)
  5. Michelle Trachtenberg (469 changes by 214 authors)
  6. Department of Government Efficiency (423 changes by 83 authors)
  7. Income Tax Act, 2025 (338 changes by 5 authors)
  8. 2025 ICC Champions Trophy group stage (298 changes by 24 authors)
  9. Kidnapping of the Bibas family (295 changes by 52 authors)
  10. Killing of David Maland (290 changes by 51 authors)
  11. Ghani cabinet (280 changes by 4 authors)
  12. 2025 World Open (snooker) (275 changes by 5 authors)
  13. 2025 German Open (badminton) (268 changes by 12 authors)
  14. 2025 SEA Games (260 changes by 7 authors)
  15. Anglo-Saxon migration debate (250 changes by 15 authors)
  16. List of Russian football transfers winter 2024–25 (241 changes by 1 authors)
  17. Timeline of the Gaza war (19 January 2025 – present) (239 changes by 9 authors)
  18. Inna Zhvanetskaya (239 changes by 1 authors)
  19. 2025 ICC Champions Trophy statistics (237 changes by 8 authors)
  20. Friedrich Merz (234 changes by 109 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. Income Tax Act, 2025 (338 changes by 5 authors)
  2. List of right-wing terrorist incidents in Europe (178 changes by 10 authors)
  3. 2025 Sudanese Antonov crash (173 changes by 36 authors)
  4. Samuel Jackson Hays (160 changes by 7 authors)
  5. List of Theta Alpha Kappa chapters (150 changes by 2 authors)
  6. Disappearance of Lisa Dorrian (148 changes by 6 authors)
  7. John Splithoff (138 changes by 3 authors)
  8. List of Chi Alpha chapters (131 changes by 3 authors)
  9. List of Golden Key International Honour Society chapters (130 changes by 2 authors)
  10. UPMC Memorial Hospital shooting (121 changes by 26 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Russian invasion of Ukraine
  2. Sambhaji
  3. Department of Government Efficiency
  4. Gaza genocide
  5. Donald Trump

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

  • 89,483 registered users and 49,469 unregistered users made 773,666 edits to 359,278 articles
  • Unregistered users made 135,515 edits to 71,220 articles
  • 90 robots made 40,414 edits to 37,254 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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