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Articles

This week, 73,878 authors made 848,553 changes to 474,932 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. 2026 Tehran explosions (5,565 changes by 719 authors)
  2. Deaths in 2026 (731 changes by 128 authors)
  3. Assassination of Ali Khamenei (731 changes by 215 authors)
  4. Ali Khamenei (685 changes by 240 authors)
  5. Israeli attack on girls' elementary school in Minab (398 changes by 104 authors)
  6. Reactions to the 2026 Iran conflict (385 changes by 99 authors)
  7. 2026 Gorton and Denton by-election (377 changes by 79 authors)
  8. Timeline of the 2026 Iran conflict (373 changes by 52 authors)
  9. 2026 United States House of Representatives elections (340 changes by 34 authors)
  10. Prelude to the 2026 Iran conflict (327 changes by 127 authors)
  11. Elimination Chamber (2026) (323 changes by 90 authors)
  12. 2026 Men's T20 World Cup (320 changes by 37 authors)
  13. Interim Leadership Council (318 changes by 77 authors)
  14. 2026 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas (318 changes by 54 authors)
  15. 2026 BNP Paribas Open – Women's singles (317 changes by 31 authors)
  16. Timeline of the Gaza war (3 October 2025 – present) (316 changes by 4 authors)
  17. List of people named in the Epstein files (309 changes by 25 authors)
  18. Sinking of IRIS Dena (307 changes by 103 authors)
  19. 2026 BNP Paribas Open – Men's singles (292 changes by 29 authors)
  20. Mojtaba Khamenei (285 changes by 122 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. 2026 Tehran explosions (5,566 changes by 719 authors)
  2. Assassination of Ali Khamenei (732 changes by 215 authors)
  3. Israeli attack on girls' elementary school in Minab (399 changes by 104 authors)
  4. Reactions to the 2026 Israeli–United States strikes on Iran (386 changes by 99 authors)
  5. Timeline of the 2026 Israeli–United States strikes on Iran (374 changes by 52 authors)
  6. Interim Leadership Council (319 changes by 77 authors)
  7. Sinking of IRIS Dena (308 changes by 103 authors)
  8. 2026 Austin bar shooting (284 changes by 50 authors)
  9. Wedding of Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Earl of Bothwell (228 changes by 3 authors)
  10. 2026 Iranian leadership crisis (221 changes by 86 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. 2026 Israeli strikes on Iran
  2. Ali Khamenei
  3. Assassination of Ali Khamenei
  4. 2026 Minab school airstrike
  5. 2026 Afghanistan–Pakistan war

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

  • 73,878 registered users and 0 unregistered users made 848,553 edits to 474,932 articles
  • Unregistered users made 18 edits to 4 articles
  • 46 robots made 73,355 edits to 65,913 articles

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