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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, 159,691 authors made 751,888 changes to 331,746 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

  1. Battle of Kabul (2021) (1,089 changes by 313 authors)
  2. 2021 Taliban offensive (715 changes by 210 authors)
  3. Plymouth shooting (650 changes by 104 authors)
  4. 2021 Atlantic hurricane season (611 changes by 68 authors)
  5. Deaths in 2021 (522 changes by 82 authors)
  6. Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (424 changes by 139 authors)
  7. List of German football transfers summer 2021 (399 changes by 8 authors)
  8. Candidates of the 2021 Canadian federal election (399 changes by 56 authors)
  9. 2021 Haiti earthquake (375 changes by 124 authors)
  10. List of shows produced by Banijay (318 changes by 2 authors)
  11. List of shows produced by ITV Studios (314 changes by 3 authors)
  12. Afghanistan (302 changes by 118 authors)
  13. Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (2004–2021) (301 changes by 115 authors)
  14. Sean Lock (289 changes by 96 authors)
  15. Free Guy (285 changes by 127 authors)
  16. Ashraf Ghani (269 changes by 106 authors)
  17. List of UTC time offsets (267 changes by 9 authors)
  18. Indian Idol (266 changes by 129 authors)
  19. 2021 British Open (255 changes by 27 authors)
  20. Amr Diab (250 changes by 5 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

  1. 2021 Haiti earthquake (375 changes by 124 authors)
  2. 2021 Western & Southern Open – Women's Singles (248 changes by 29 authors)
  3. 2021 Western & Southern Open – Men's Singles (224 changes by 29 authors)
  4. Conflict between the Taliban and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (2021-Present) (162 changes by 53 authors)
  5. Franz Josef Altenburg (119 changes by 15 authors)
  6. 2021 World Juniors Wrestling Championships (115 changes by 23 authors)
  7. Tera Mera Saath Rahe (109 changes by 32 authors)
  8. Amara Sullia Freedom Movement of 1837 (104 changes by 8 authors)
  9. Lothringen (oil tanker) (96 changes by 9 authors)
  10. List of populated places in Colorado by county (96 changes by 3 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

  1. Afghanistan
  2. War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
  3. Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
  4. Julian Assange
  5. 2021 Taliban offensive

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

  • 98,825 registered users and 60,866 unregistered users made 751,888 edits to 331,746 articles
  • Unregistered users made 154,597 edits to 75,229 articles
  • 38 robots made 55,444 edits to 53,251 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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