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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, 134,738 authors made 776,884 changes to 375,104 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. 2025 massacres of Syrian Alawites (827 changes by 117 authors)
  2. Department of Government Efficiency (580 changes by 36 authors)
  3. 2025 North Sea ship collision (495 changes by 80 authors)
  4. List of Tau Beta Pi members (446 changes by 5 authors)
  5. Deaths in 2025 (407 changes by 78 authors)
  6. 2025 Jaffar Express hijacking (397 changes by 103 authors)
  7. Cyndi Lauper (358 changes by 4 authors)
  8. Sidemen Charity Match (321 changes by 71 authors)
  9. Mark Carney (319 changes by 117 authors)
  10. Detention of Mahmoud Khalil (290 changes by 43 authors)
  11. Mayhem (Lady Gaga album) (280 changes by 56 authors)
  12. ICC Champions Trophy (280 changes by 142 authors)
  13. List of plays adapted into feature films: J to Q (276 changes by 2 authors)
  14. Career of Lionel Messi (272 changes by 4 authors)
  15. 2025 BNP Paribas Open – Men's singles (268 changes by 29 authors)
  16. March 2025 Western Syria clashes (264 changes by 82 authors)
  17. 2025 ICC Champions Trophy final (261 changes by 25 authors)
  18. Brad Sigmon (248 changes by 82 authors)
  19. 2025 BNP Paribas Open – Women's singles (245 changes by 28 authors)
  20. 2025 Finnish Cup (238 changes by 5 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. 2025 massacres of Syrian Alawites (827 changes by 117 authors)
  2. 2025 North Sea ship collision (495 changes by 80 authors)
  3. 2025 Pakistani train hijacking (397 changes by 103 authors)
  4. Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil (290 changes by 43 authors)
  5. Arrest of Rodrigo Duterte (236 changes by 87 authors)
  6. Thomas Bolton (microscopist) (182 changes by 4 authors)
  7. Maharani (song) (138 changes by 3 authors)
  8. Jewels of James VI and I (128 changes by 4 authors)
  9. Timeline of events related to the 2025 United States trade war with Canada (112 changes by 10 authors)
  10. Mahmoud Khalil (activist) (106 changes by 37 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Donald Trump
  2. Russian invasion of Ukraine
  3. Opinion polling for the next United Kingdom general election
  4. Fort Benning
  5. 2025 massacres of Syrian Alawites

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

  • 87,075 registered users and 47,663 unregistered users made 776,884 edits to 375,104 articles
  • Unregistered users made 127,760 edits to 66,428 articles
  • 56 robots made 60,139 edits to 57,270 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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