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, 128,555 authors made 724,170 changes to 339,030 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. 2025 Pahalgam attack (990 changes by 185 authors)
  2. Death and funeral of Pope Francis (896 changes by 279 authors)
  3. 2025 papal conclave (685 changes by 190 authors)
  4. Pope Francis (634 changes by 303 authors)
  5. Kesari Chapter 2 (603 changes by 217 authors)
  6. Reactions to the death of Pope Francis (567 changes by 134 authors)
  7. Deaths in 2025 (514 changes by 101 authors)
  8. Margaret (495 changes by 3 authors)
  9. Sinners (2025 film) (489 changes by 194 authors)
  10. Luostari airfield (445 changes by 50 authors)
  11. 2025 World Snooker Championship (406 changes by 40 authors)
  12. 2025 Super Cup (India) (390 changes by 19 authors)
  13. List of dignitaries at the funeral of Pope Francis (360 changes by 60 authors)
  14. G-force (357 changes by 18 authors)
  15. WrestleMania 41 (356 changes by 66 authors)
  16. 2025 Mutua Madrid Open – Women's singles (321 changes by 34 authors)
  17. Department of Government Efficiency (321 changes by 23 authors)
  18. Deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia (318 changes by 79 authors)
  19. Pub names (317 changes by 5 authors)
  20. 2025 Mutua Madrid Open – Men's singles (297 changes by 24 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. 2025 Pahalgam attack (990 changes by 185 authors)
  2. Death and funeral of Pope Francis (896 changes by 279 authors)
  3. 2025 papal conclave (685 changes by 190 authors)
  4. Reactions to the death of Pope Francis (567 changes by 134 authors)
  5. Waranga North East Football Association (250 changes by 2 authors)
  6. Cardinal electors in the 2025 papal conclave (146 changes by 40 authors)
  7. Brian Hansen (pornographic actor) (130 changes by 8 authors)
  8. List of the busiest airports in Puerto Rico (105 changes by 3 authors)
  9. 2025 KML Playoffs (105 changes by 4 authors)
  10. Day of Action (103 changes by 18 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. 2025 Pahalgam attack
  2. Deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
  3. COVID-19 lab leak theory
  4. Pope Francis
  5. Gulf of Mexico

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

  • 83,241 registered users and 45,314 unregistered users made 724,170 edits to 339,030 articles
  • Unregistered users made 125,671 edits to 62,287 articles
  • 49 robots made 42,823 edits to 39,911 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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