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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, 74,868 authors made 749,598 changes to 366,685 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak (714 changes by 209 authors)
  2. Deaths in 2026 (507 changes by 85 authors)
  3. 2026 Scottish Parliament election (431 changes by 102 authors)
  4. 2026 United Kingdom local elections (365 changes by 136 authors)
  5. Dam (355 changes by 7 authors)
  6. 2026 Canvas security incident (353 changes by 148 authors)
  7. 2026 Thailand Open (badminton) (303 changes by 18 authors)
  8. 2026 Italian Open – Men's singles (266 changes by 35 authors)
  9. C. Joseph Vijay (266 changes by 64 authors)
  10. 2026 Baoji China Masters (265 changes by 14 authors)
  11. 2026 Senedd election (239 changes by 83 authors)
  12. 2026 Birmingham City Council election (229 changes by 24 authors)
  13. Skrilla (226 changes by 10 authors)
  14. Suvendu Adhikari (218 changes by 79 authors)
  15. Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (213 changes by 81 authors)
  16. Brandon Clarke (211 changes by 101 authors)
  17. Andes virus (210 changes by 45 authors)
  18. 2026 FIFA World Cup squads (210 changes by 50 authors)
  19. History of England (202 changes by 1 authors)
  20. Tench Coxe (201 changes by 7 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. 2026 United Kingdom government crisis (199 changes by 67 authors)
  2. UFO Files (government documents) (182 changes by 19 authors)
  3. Q Manivannan (178 changes by 64 authors)
  4. Trial of the 66 (175 changes by 3 authors)
  5. 2026 Philippine senate lockdown (161 changes by 43 authors)
  6. 2026 state visit by Donald Trump to China (147 changes by 39 authors)
  7. Queen's Latin (144 changes by 4 authors)
  8. 7th Scottish Parliament (141 changes by 20 authors)
  9. Suvendu Adhikari ministry (126 changes by 43 authors)
  10. 2026 Makerfield by-election (109 changes by 44 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak
  2. Persecution of transgender people under the second Trump administration
  3. 1993 Michael Jackson sexual abuse allegations
  4. Republican Party (United States)
  5. Donald Trump

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

  • 74,868 registered users and 0 unregistered users made 749,598 edits to 366,685 articles
  • Unregistered users made 32 edits to 20 articles
  • 47 robots made 52,319 edits to 49,042 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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